NO Mohegan Sun for RU
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I think he posted a couple of weeks ago that Mohegan Sun was no longer in play.
I think the latest was a matchup with a Big East team TBD and Michigan State at MSG as a neutral site game that takes away one of our B1G home games.
Add in Seton Hall at the RAC and the ACC/B1G, not sure what else is needed.
2 Big East
1 ACC
1 Neutral MSG
I think the latest was a matchup with a Big East team TBD and Michigan State at MSG as a neutral site game that takes away one of our B1G home games.
Add in Seton Hall at the RAC and the ACC/B1G, not sure what else is needed.
2 Big East
1 ACC
1 Neutral MSG
I’ll reserve judgement until it’s done, but sounds similar to previous years.
USC at MSG was a done deal with a contract and then it fell apart as did ND at Mohegan. A Houston game was bandied about at yet another site. Now there are apparent discussions with Georgetown and Providence, with the possibility of a game at the new Long Island arena. CCSU is on the schedule at the RAC. Michigan State at The Garden is probably a Rutgers home game,but might still be a Michigan State home game instead. It would be a total stunner if a neutral site game does not happen.My overriding preference is MSG every year,a warm weather site and Princeton 2 for 1,which Mitch will do at the RAC. Princeton has a high flying offense now and would be a Quad one on the road and a Quad two at home.
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Great conference schedule and lame OOC schedule. Wash, rinse, repeat.
And for what it’s worth (and IMO a lot) just about every other B1G team is in one of these tournaments
According to this Pac 12 is the only conference with no teams
Completely Booked: Pac-12
American (3/11): East Carolina, Houston, UCF
ACC (1/15): Wake Forest
Atlantic 10 (3/15): Duquesne, Fordham, La Salle
Big 12 (2/10): Oklahoma State, Texas
Big East (2/11): DePaul, Georgetown
Big Ten (3/14): Indiana, Minnesota, Rutgers
MVC (6/12): Evansville, Indiana State, Missouri State, Southern Illinois, UIC, Valparaiso
MW (4/11): Air Force, New Mexico, San José State, UNLV
SEC (2/14): Kentucky, Missouri
WCC (4/10): Loyola Marymount, Pacific, San Diego, Santa Clara
There are 2 tournaments that a team has to drop out. Myrtle Beach has 2 A10 and Paradise Jam has 2 MVC. UBS Arena thing has ND and St Bonaventure announced so far, more to be announced.
Blah blah blah. The schedule at least diverts attention away from worrying about our lack of a 3rd string center
Confirmed 250 and lower NET games
Columbia
Bucknell
CCSU
Coppin St
Rider
SHU
ACC challenge maybe ND?
MAYBE Neutral site Providence/Gtown
Would be nice if the last 2 added home games were respectable opponents- A10, Colonial, American
but we know it’ll be a FDU, NJIT, Maine Christmas week combo
Columbia
Bucknell
CCSU
Coppin St
Rider
SHU
ACC challenge maybe ND?
MAYBE Neutral site Providence/Gtown
Would be nice if the last 2 added home games were respectable opponents- A10, Colonial, American
but we know it’ll be a FDU, NJIT, Maine Christmas week combo
How can you confirm what the NET of our opponents will be?
Take away Cliff and Paul -- we'd probably be evenly matched with most of those teams
Can't possibly comprehend the thought process of a long time fan suffering for decades and then finally have an NCAA tournament team 3 years in a row... only to drop their tickets bc they didn't like the OOC schedule...
Mind blowing
The scheduling strategy is rather obvious.With twenty league games Rutgers needs a easy out of conference schedule in order to achieve 20 wins for the season.It didn't work last season because of losses to Lafayette,DePaul and UMASS.Rutgers was one of the last teams selected for the NCAA Tournament because of the weak out of conference schedule along with losses to bottom tier Big Ten rivals and the three out of conference teams cited above.
It is amazing our board at Seton Hall is the same (we have something in common ) some of the same clowns different circus !!
It normally takes me about 45 minutes to get to the RAC, if there is only a slight backup on either the turnpike or GSP
If the game has a 7 pm start I can get stuck in an additional 45 minutes or so, so I have to allow almost 2 hours to get there, to be safe enough to make tipoff
So, the past couple of years I might skip a central conn game altogether, feeling it is not worth it, but would go to some of the bottom teams that are a little better
But I would not give up season tickets because there are enough good games on the home schedule, and those games are exciting enough
Do you think there’s any chance we have our name in the hat to replace Belmont in their Virgin Islands tourney? Wyoming and BC are the headliners so we’d clearly be a 1 or a 2 seed in that bracket. Pike can’t possibly be afraid of a neutral first round match up against Howard or Tarleton State could he? Second round fear of playing the winner of Drake / Buffalo / George Mason? Come on.
Yes, time to drop the tickets after our best 3 years since bell bottoms were in. Give me a break.
Sorry you’re embarrassed. Pike should really take that into consideration next time.
ANOTHER year??
our best case scenarios the last handful of years were way greater than that.
Can't possibly comprehend the thought process of a long time fan suffering for decades and then finally have an NCAA tournament team 3 years in a row... only to drop their tickets bc they didn't like the OOC schedule...
Mind blowing
The opinions on this message board are often at times so moronic it makes our fanbase look like idiots..
I guess that’s social media, though…
Agreed.
We had the literally worst case scenario last year and lost the "easy OCC" games - still made the tournament as a 12 seed.
I think there are fans like me who would like to see RU in a early season holiday tournament, maybe in a good travel destination, or playing against a major school in OOC.
The cutoff to make the NCAAs in 95% of the at large cases is to stay at or below 13 total losses.
If you are actually interested in doing what every Power 5/6 coach does, when you are not a Blue blood that either lands more players or buys them, is you have to be at 13 losses.
Once you get over 13 losses, the likelihood of making the NCAAS drops significantly.
You have a minimum of 21 B1G games (20 regular season and at least 1 in the B1G tournament.
If you add the ACC/B1G, Seton Hall games and another neutral site game as TBD, that's 24 games out of 31 that I would consider "quality opponents".
Of those 24 games, you have to at least be .500 in those games AND in the ideal situation, you want to be 13-11 in those 24 games....hopefully of the 13 wins, 2 to 4 are neutral or road games and you mix in 2 more ranked wins.
This is the format and formula that works for every major program in a Power 5/6 conference.
If you add a 13th loss, trying to be cute by playing in some no-name OOC tournament that no committee member on the selection group actually could watch, because those games aren't always on national TV, what is the point??
RU playing Michigan State at MSG, Seton Hall at the RAC and the ACC/B1G is more than fine. If they add in a Providence or Georgetown, I don't see what anyone is complaining about.
If you are actually interested in doing what every Power 5/6 coach does, when you are not a Blue blood that either lands more players or buys them, is you have to be at 13 losses.
Once you get over 13 losses, the likelihood of making the NCAAS drops significantly.
You have a minimum of 21 B1G games (20 regular season and at least 1 in the B1G tournament.
If you add the ACC/B1G, Seton Hall games and another neutral site game as TBD, that's 24 games out of 31 that I would consider "quality opponents".
Of those 24 games, you have to at least be .500 in those games AND in the ideal situation, you want to be 13-11 in those 24 games....hopefully of the 13 wins, 2 to 4 are neutral or road games and you mix in 2 more ranked wins.
This is the format and formula that works for every major program in a Power 5/6 conference.
If you add a 13th loss, trying to be cute by playing in some no-name OOC tournament that no committee member on the selection group actually could watch, because those games aren't always on national TV, what is the point??
RU playing Michigan State at MSG, Seton Hall at the RAC and the ACC/B1G is more than fine. If they add in a Providence or Georgetown, I don't see what anyone is complaining about.
What? If someone drops their tickets next to mine, I would buy them up pronto.