Pistol Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 General thoughts: -Selfishly, I like late games because I have a 3-year-old and a newborn. The later the game, the better the chances both will be asleep. Not many good times for me so far, but I like the 9:00 tip vs. VCU. -Once again, the Dayton road game is on a Saturday. This is usually an early game but has often been on an ESPN network, so I'm curious what CBS will do with it. Probably afternoon. -Once again, Duquesne is on a weeknight, which is infuriating to me. I think every year I've lived in Ohio, this game has been on a weeknight. Duquesne is about 4 hours from me and I still have yet to make it up there. -I can't believe both St. Joe's games got picked up by national networks. They're going to be brutally bad this year. -SJU twice, La Salle twice, UMass twice - lots of win potential there. Duquesne and Dayton are the other home-and-home opponents and those will be tougher. -Plus, we only get VCU, Davidson, and Rhode Island once each. So it's an easier conference slate than a lot of other A10 teams will get, but our SOS will be weaker in conference. -Duquesne on the road is a tough opening game, then we have two winnable ones at home, then we go to Richmond. They'll be decent and we haven't played well there historically. We started 5-0 in conference last year but that was also our easiest stretch of games. This one is a lot more evened out overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, Pistol said: They mean 11 in-conference games on a national network - NBCSN, CBSSN, ESPNU/ESPN2, and Stadium. Basically everything with a network in the "TV" column in the link above. The rest are on ESPN+ and generally picked up by FSMW. One of the eleven is the Seton Hall game. The Boston college game will probably be on the ACC Network and the Auburn game will be on the SEC Network. That will give you 13 national TV games. Pistol likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 11 minutes ago, wgstl said: its a 8pm central time start Thanks. I didn't catch that but should have given it seemed weird to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FromDaEastSide Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 The 2 on Stadium are available locally on 30.4 (KDNL-4). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 1 minute ago, kshoe said: Thanks. I didn't catch that but should have given it seemed weird to me. Why release a team specific schedule for a school in the central time zone with eastern game times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 1 minute ago, brianstl said: Why release a team specific schedule for a school in the central time zone with eastern game times? It was released by the conference. SLU is the only non-Eastern time team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Full schedule: http://www.slubillikens.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27200&ATCLID=211810828 http://www.slubillikens.com/pdf9/5488976.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLU_Nick Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 This is a hard non conference. We will lose an infuriating one I’m sure and will be dogs in 4 others. 8-5 or even 7-6 going into conference is very much on the table (please don’t bad post me) cgeldmacher likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crymdg2 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Just now, SLU_Nick said: (please don’t bad post me) Ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 45 minutes ago, Pistol said: General thoughts: -SJU twice, La Salle twice, UMass twice - lots of win potential there. Duquesne and Dayton are the other home-and-home opponents and those will be tougher. -Plus, we only get VCU, Davidson, and Rhode Island once each. So it's an easier conference slate than a lot of other A10 teams will get, but our SOS will be weaker in conference. -Duquesne on the road is a tough opening game, then we have two winnable ones at home, then we go to Richmond. They'll be decent and we haven't played well there historically. We started 5-0 in conference last year but that was also our easiest stretch of games. This one is a lot more evened out overall. Not going to VCU takes away a probabe Q1 game. We need all of those we can get. Right now I am hoping the away games at Davidson and Dayton will be Q1's and the home game v Dayton also Q1. Going to Rhody might sneak into Q2. To me it looks like maybe 5 Q1 or Q2 games, and 13 Q3/Q4 games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juniorbill76 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 4 minutes ago, HoosierPal said: Not going to VCU takes away a probabe Q1 game. We need all of those we can get. Right now I am hoping the away games at Davidson and Dayton will be Q1's and the home game v Dayton also Q1. Going to Rhody might sneak into Q2. To me it looks like maybe 5 Q1 or Q2 games, and 13 Q3/Q4 games. Win the conference tournament again and the Q's won't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Per Stu, we still have one OOC game not announced??? St. Louis University will open the basketball season with six home games and has a nonconference schedule highlighted by meetings with Seton Hall at Chaifetz Arena, Auburn in Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas State in Kansas City. The Billikens play only one true road game at Boston College before opening Atlantic 10 play at Duquesne. They have three games that will qualify as neutral site although the game against Auburn, which reached the Final Four last season, will be played a two-hour drive north of the Tigers’ campus. SLU’s season opener is Nov. 5 against Florida Gulf Coast at Chaifetz. Other nonconference home opponents include Valparaiso, Eastern Washington, Seton Hall, High Point, Belmont, Southern Illinois-Carbondale and Bethune Cookman. There is also one opponent that is still to be determined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 19 hours ago, HoosierPal said: Per Stu, we still have one OOC game not announced??? St. Louis University will open the basketball season with six home games and has a nonconference schedule highlighted by meetings with Seton Hall at Chaifetz Arena, Auburn in Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas State in Kansas City. The Billikens play only one true road game at Boston College before opening Atlantic 10 play at Duquesne. They have three games that will qualify as neutral site although the game against Auburn, which reached the Final Four last season, will be played a two-hour drive north of the Tigers’ campus. SLU’s season opener is Nov. 5 against Florida Gulf Coast at Chaifetz. Other nonconference home opponents include Valparaiso, Eastern Washington, Seton Hall, High Point, Belmont, Southern Illinois-Carbondale and Bethune Cookman. There is also one opponent that is still to be determined. It would have to be another road game, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgeldmacher Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 22 hours ago, Pistol said: General thoughts: -Selfishly, I like late games because I have a 3-year-old and a newborn. The later the game, the better the chances both will be asleep. Not many good times for me so far, but I like the 9:00 tip vs. VCU. -Once again, the Dayton road game is on a Saturday. This is usually an early game but has often been on an ESPN network, so I'm curious what CBS will do with it. Probably afternoon. -Once again, Duquesne is on a weeknight, which is infuriating to me. I think every year I've lived in Ohio, this game has been on a weeknight. Duquesne is about 4 hours from me and I still have yet to make it up there. -I can't believe both St. Joe's games got picked up by national networks. They're going to be brutally bad this year. -SJU twice, La Salle twice, UMass twice - lots of win potential there. Duquesne and Dayton are the other home-and-home opponents and those will be tougher. -Plus, we only get VCU, Davidson, and Rhode Island once each. So it's an easier conference slate than a lot of other A10 teams will get, but our SOS will be weaker in conference. -Duquesne on the road is a tough opening game, then we have two winnable ones at home, then we go to Richmond. They'll be decent and we haven't played well there historically. We started 5-0 in conference last year but that was also our easiest stretch of games. This one is a lot more evened out overall. Totally agree about the Duquesne games. I've been wanting to bring my group to Pittsburgh for our trip for a while. Every year the damn Duquesne game is on a weeknight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Pistol said: It would have to be another road game, right? My guess is charity exhibition game. I think they are at the max on regular season games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compton Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 On 9/5/2019 at 2:19 PM, cgeldmacher said: Totally agree about the Duquesne games. I've been wanting to bring my group to Pittsburgh for our trip for a while. Every year the damn Duquesne game is on a weeknight. It might not be the best year to do a Pitt trip anyways, since they’ll be playing that game out by the airport at Robert Morris University. Duquesne is splitting games between RMU and the PPG Paints Center (where the Penguins play) while the UPMC Cooper Center (formerly Palumbo Center) is being renovated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Compton said: It might not be the best year to do a Pitt trip anyways, since they’ll be playing that game out by the airport at Robert Morris University. Duquesne is splitting games between RMU and the PPG Paints Center (where the Penguins play) while the UPMC Cooper Center (formerly Palumbo Center) is being renovated. -are they keeping the duct work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Some architects and some developers like the retro industrial look inside large open buildings. I suppose they may keep some of the duct work after they stylize and reroute it a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 RIP Duquesne Ductwork, 1988-2019. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 17 minutes ago, Pistol said: RIP Duquesne Ductwork, 1988-2019. this looks tiny. looks like maybe 4k tops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 -I guess that is the price of progress -will be interesting to see how this lighting works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 1 minute ago, wgstl said: this looks tiny. looks like maybe 4k tops. They're saying it should be about the same as current capacity at the Palumbo Center, which is about 4,400. It looks a little bigger from other angles, but yeah, it looks smaller than what they're saying. I'll be interested to see the final product. Also, I love that the scoreboard image has Mike Lewis on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 33 minutes ago, Pistol said: RIP Duquesne Ductwork, 1988-2019. Looks nice, but good luck getting any kind of air flow from the HVAC system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 that half oval seating annoys me so much for no reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 It looks like an arena for ants rgbilliken likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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