He will play yet another game at the RAC as his Coppin State team,coached by Maryland great Juan Dixon will be visiting as a buy game.
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When do we start hearing about the supposed "better schedule?"
We kinda already know there are going to be 11 OOC games. We have heard about Columbia and now Coppin State. We are hosting Seton Hall this year.
If there are no Gavitt Games for RU, that takes away a 2nd Big East game.
My guess is the 7 standard games that are supposed to be wins at the RAC, add Seton Hall as the 8th game. If we are keeping count
Columbia
Coppin State
Likely another Ivy not named Princeton, Harvard or Yale
The usual potential suspects of years past.....
NJIT/Bucknell/Lehigh/Lafayette/Boston University/Rider/Drexel are teams we have played or were scheduled to play in recent years.
We are really only talking about 3 games. One of the 3 is the likely B1G/ACC challenge, so we are down to 2 possible games of note..
If Michigan State is a neutral at MSG, we are carrying 9 B1G home, 10 road and at a minimum 2 neutral (MSG vs Sparty and B1G tournament).
Ideally we add a 3rd neutral and find a matchup home and home with a Providence or something like that.
I don't really give the OOC much thought. My concern with the schedule is which 2 B1G games do we get in November/December, because that has more bearing on the NCAA resume. The ideal situation is to avoid going 0-2 in B1G early games, worse case 1-1 drives the key to the entire schedule in the 1st 2 months.
Coppin St is a decent low major opponent and was one game from the Tournament. Juan Dixon has taken the Mike Davis at Texas Southern, now at Detroit, approach to scheduling, those opponents don't hurt you. Their non conference last year included Loyola(Chi), Depaul, UConn, UNCG, Virginia, Cleveland St, ECU, St. Bonaventure, Cornell, Towson, Drexel. The opponents of your opponents do factor in, Coppin St isn't bad.
How many shots per game does Sessoms hoist up in the MEAC conference?
Coppin State was 9-23 last season, beating out only 2-26 Delaware State in the MEAC.
Coppin State was 9-23 last season, beating out only 2-26 Delaware State in the MEAC.
He was top 35 in shot attempt percentage the country in his two years at Binghamton. I could see him in the top 15 at Coppin State (disclaimer, I have absolutely no idea who else is on that toster)
I'd like to see Fairfield come in with Jay/Bryan, but think the coaches are too joined at the hip and don't want to play each other.
How about Bryant so we can have more Peter Kiss threads?
Rutgers had very serious discussions with Houston,who will be Top 5 but they fizzled.Providence is still possible.
We used to play Florida and Auburn. Could think about WVU, Vanderbilt, Georgia, etc. too.
I’d love to schedule a home and home with a team like Miami, VCU, Oklahoma. Somebody good, but not great. A win is a good win and loss is not crushing.
Selfishly, I’d like Rutgers to schedule FGCU in Southwest Florida. Entertaining team to play. Maybe serve a Florida recruiting purpose. We wouldn’t be the first Big Ten team to schedule Dunk City. I recall Indiana and Michigan State as FGCU opponents..
Coppin State 301.
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Another horrific scheduling choice
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Another horrific scheduling choice
In December 1982, we played Oregon and Stanford at the RAC. Ah, those were the days...
OOC schedule was in 75-100 non conference, Ken Pom 34th NC, just because they are in one of the worst conferences(30th/32) doesn't mean they weren't challenged in non conference, 4 Q1s 2 Q2s 9 Q3s, 15 Q1/2/3 and 0 non D1 games. It is the way you team build in the low majors, play tougher, your own conference will seem easier by comparison. Maybe, Bucknell and Columbia are scheduling harder next year as well.
Last year, Lehigh 10 total(1/4/5), Merrimack 8(3/2/3), NJIT 9(3/3/3), Lafayette 10(1/4/5), Maine 10(3/3/4), CCSU 12(2/2/8).
Depends who else they add. Three of their best players transferred as well as a 4th
How many conference games were against teams in the top 50? Top 25? Top 15?