OOC Schedule

[stag76]

Are we certain at this time of any OOC games for next season besides Yale in the CT-6 and the game against Sacred Heart in November?

I just saw on the MAAC board that Monmouth is opening up with road games against UCLA and Southern Cal. And their opening game opponent in the Advocare (formerly Old Spice) tournament is Notre Dame. Also, our CT-6 opponent Yale, according to Chip Malafronte of the nhregister.com, has road games scheduled with Duke, SMU, and Southern Cal and home games with Albany, Vermont, and NJIT (the latter 3 all being 20 game winners last season).

I think I remember reading somewhere along the way that we are planning to play an easier OOC than the past few seasons. Should be interesting to see who ends up on our OOC schedule.

[FU73]

As on April 7, 2015 the NCAA had the Stags finish the season with an rpi of 300. This might be a good place to look for more than 2 OOC wins.

www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-rpi

300 299 Fairfield Metro Atlantic 7-24 2-11 1-2 4-11 0-0
301 301 Bakersfield Western Athletic 14-19 3-10 2-4 6-5 3-0
302 304 Jacksonville St. OVC 12-19 1-16 0-0 9-3 2-0
303 298 Col. of Charleston Colonial 9-24 2-12 2-3 5-9 0-0
304 307 Southern Utah Big Sky 10-19 4-11 1-1 4-7 1-0
305 303 Fla. Atlantic Conference USA 9-20 2-13 0-0 5-7 2-0
306 305 Samford Southern 13-19 4-11 1-2 7-6 1-0
307 306 Nevada Mountain West 9-22 2-11 0-3 5-8 2-0
308 310 North Dakota Big Sky 8-22 4-12 1-1 1-9 2-0
309 308 Utah Valley Western Athletic 11-19 3-13 0-1 6-5 2-0
310 309 UNCG Southern 11-22 4-9 1-3 3-10 3-0
311 311 Coppin St. Mid-Eastern 8-23 3-15 1-1 3-7 1-0
312 313 Troy Sun Belt 10-19 4-10 0-0 4-9 2-0
313 312 Fairleigh Dickinson Northeast 8-21 4-12 0-0 3-9 1-0
314 315 Presbyterian Big South 10-22 3-11 0-3 3-8 4-0
315 314 Cal St. Fullerton Big West 9-22 1-14 2-0 4-8 2-0
316 318 Austin Peay OVC 8-22 1-14 1-1 4-7 2-0
317 322 Jackson St. Southwestern 11-21 5-14 0-1 6-6 0-0
318 316 Longwood Big South 11-23 2-14 3-2 4-7 2-0
319 317 Marist Metro Atlantic 7-25 2-13 2-3 3-9 0-0
320 319 Kennesaw St. Atlantic Sun 10-22 3-14 1-0 4-8 2-0
321 320 South Carolina St. Mid-Eastern 11-22 4-14 1-3 4-5 2-0
322 321 Nicholls St. Southland 10-19 3-12 0-1 4-6 3-0
323 324 Montana St. Big Sky 7-23 2-14 0-0 4-9 1-0
324 323 Campbell Big South 10-22 1-15 0-1 6-6 3-0
325 327 Citadel Southern 11-19 3-10 0-3 5-6 3-0
326 325 Abilene Christian Southland 10-21 1-14 2-0 4-7 3-0
327 326 New Orleans Southland 11-18 2-13 1-1 5-4 3-0
328 328 Western Ill. Summit 8-20 0-13 0-1 6-6 2-0
329 330 Alabama A&M Southwestern 9-20 5-12 0-1 3-7 1-0
330 331 Savannah St. Mid-Eastern 9-22 2-16 0-1 5-5 2-0
331 329 Southeastern La. Southland 9-23 3-16 0-1 5-6 1-0
332 332 Binghamton America East 6-26 1-15 0-2 4-8 1-1
333 333 Chicago St. Western Athletic 8-24 1-16 0-3 4-5 3-0
334 334 Tex.-Pan American Western Athletic 10-21 1-15 1-2 5-4 3-0
335 335 Stetson Atlantic Sun 9-22 1-15 1-0 4-7 3-0
336 336 San Jose St. Mountain West 2-28 0-12 0-3 0-13 2-0
337 337 Morgan St. Mid-Eastern 7-24 1-17 1-2 5-5 0-0
338 339 Maine America East 3-27 1-17 0-1 2-9 0-0
339 338 Jacksonville Atlantic Sun 10-22 2-15 0-0 5-7 3-0
340 340 N.C. A&T Mid-Eastern 9-23 2-15 0-3 5-5 2-0
341 341 Tennessee St. OVC 5-26 0-17 0-1 3-8 2-0
342 343 Idaho St. Big Sky 7-23 1-14 0-2 4-7 2-0
343 342 Central Conn. St. Northeast 5-26 1-14 0-3 4-9 0-0
344 344 Bethune-Cookman Mid-Eastern 11-21 4-11 1-2 4-8 2-0
345 345 Mississippi Val. Southwestern 6-26 2-18 1-1 3-7 0-0
346 346 UMBC America East 4-26 2-15 0-0 2-11 0-0
347 347 Liberty Big South 7-24 0-13 0-3 4-8 3-0
348 348 Alcorn Southwestern 6-26 1-15 1-4 3-6 1-1
349 349 Central Ark. Southland 2-27 0-16 0-0 2-11 0-0
350 350 Florida A&M Mid-Eastern 2-27 0-17 0-1 2-9 0-0
351 351 Grambling Southwestern 2-27 0-17 0-1 0-9 2-0

[ctghostman]

I hate that we would look to schedule a team because they are beatable. I think that on and off the court that our students and student-athletes should compete against the best. That doesn't mean that we should schedule the entire acc or big east but it does mean that we shouldnt look to inflate our record by taking and easy way out.

[lihoops]

I assume we will be in some form of a pre-season tournament, any idea?

Any BCS buy games?

There had been talk of organizing a local NYC game each year, any clue on that?

[typhaon]

Isn't it time for the Atlantis tournament or some trip abroad?

[JoeStag]

Here are some of the existing contracts we have for games....

SHU at home
Yale on CT 6 at CentralCT
Loyola..... 2 more years. I think at home this year?
Bucknell.... 2 more years
Belmont .... 2 more years

IMO, its good to have an easier OOC schedule this year so we can build some confidence and chemistry. We have done this in prior years, and it has worked well.

[ctghostman]

Apr 21, 2015 1:58:50 GMT -5 typhaon said:

Isn't it time for the Atlantis tournament or some trip abroad?

I think that we should do a holiday trip every year - either Thanksgiving or Christmas - IMO, it's a great recruiting tool and it breaks up the doldrums of sitting around on campus when no one is there - especially on a down year, that isolation period takes its toll on players.

[nashvillestag]

Last fall, about the time we were playing in that "tournament" against Duke, then the round robin games in Bridgeport, it was reported that this coming year we might be going to North Carolina as part of a similar "tournament" set-up. Only difference is we would be on the road at some other site for the other 3 games. Haven't heard anything in a long while about this however.

[lihoops]

OOC games starting to leak for other MAAC teams, I hope we start hearign dates soon.

[jaystag13]

Apr 21, 2015 8:05:36 GMT -5 nashvillestag said:

Last fall, about the time we were playing in that "tournament" against Duke, then the round robin games in Bridgeport, it was reported that this coming year we might be going to North Carolina as part of a similar "tournament" set-up. Only difference is we would be on the road at some other site for the other 3 games. Haven't heard anything in a long while about this however.

I remember this conversation, and me getting excited. I had a great time at Duke and we have made it a bit of a tradition to get the college crew together and go root on the stags. It was nice having louisville at mohegan and then the blue devils at duke. Looking forward to this years game and making the trip!

[stag76]

We are not on Kentucky's, Arizona's or Texas' OOC schedules. Add those three to the 11 MAAC schools, and at the latest we will know our D1 OOC opponents after the other 337 D1 teams announce their OOC schedules.

www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25192729/kentuckys-2015-16-schedule-features-duke-kansas-ohio-state-ucla

www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25192779/arizonas-2015-16-schedule-unveiled-gonzaga-unlv-on-the-list

www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25189472/shaka-smarts-schedule-at-texas-next-season-is-pretty-good

[JoeStag]

Still in the rumor stage about the schedule. Our OOC schedule might not be as easy as expected. Teams like North Carolina and Northwestern have been thrown around. Yale (CT-6), SHU, @bucknell, Loyola (Bpt) should be definites. Belmont and Providence could resume series in a couple of years.

[stag76]

Interesting that UNC and Northwestern are being mentioned since both are in the CBE Hall of Fame early season tournament. Bloggingthebracket.com is also listing Columbia and Wofford as non-BCS participants in this tournament although they list 2-6 teams as still to be named. Looks like a somewhat similiar setup to the early season tournament we were in last year.

www.bloggingthebracket.com/2013/12/2/5166356/2015-16-college-basketball-early-season-tournaments-events-MTE

If we do end up playing Northwestern, I have to wonder if their coach will mention in his pregame talk that we've been to the NCAAs 3 more times than Northwestern has. I believe Northwestern is the only school from a power conference to never make the NCAAs.

[stag76]

It looks to be a case of history repeating itself here. With their June 6th update, Bloggingthebracket.com is listing us as a participant in the CBE Hall of Fame Tournament based on the ?information? found on this message board. Last year they listed us as a participant in the Coaches vs Cancer Classic based on posts on this board before anything was officially announced and that turned out to be true.

The other non-BCS teams in the tourney are Columbia, UMES(MEAC), and Wofford so if it is similiar to the setup at other MTE tournaments we'll be playing our subregional games at one of those three schools since it's been stated we wouldn't be hosting the subregional this year in a prior post. The site is listing the tournament as an 8 team event so it appears the entire field is complete.

www.bloggingthebracket.com/2013/12/2/5166356/2015-16-college-basketball-early-season-tournaments-events-MTE


Last year's format was: Two subregionals (Monmouth was the host of one the subregionals) with each non-BCS team getting one game against a host school: www.cbeclassic.com/history/all-time-game-results/by-year


If the field is complete at this point; here's links to last year's results for UMES, Columbia, and Wofford. Wofford made the NCAAs and UMES was in the CIT:
espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/2379/maryland-eastern-shore-hawks

espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/171/columbia-lions

espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/2747/wofford-terriers

[nashvillestag]

Jun 7, 2015 7:26:52 GMT -5 stag76 said:

History repeating itself here. Bloggingthebracket.com is listing us as a participant in the CBE Hall of Fame Tournament based on the ?information? found on this message board. Last year they listed us as a participant in the Coaches vs Cancer Classic based on posts on this board before anything was officially announced and that turned out to be true.

The other non-BCS teams in the tourney are Columbia, UMES(MEAC), and Wofford so if it is similiar to last year's setup we'll be playing our subregional games at one of those three schools since it's been stated we wouldn't be hosting the subregional this year in a prior post. The site is listing the tournament as an 8 team event so it appears the entire field is complete.

www.bloggingthebracket.com/2013/12/2/5166356/2015-16-college-basketball-early-season-tournaments-events-MTE

Wow, we have a lot of power on this board, right? Anything we say is gospel. Amazing! Actually as I have mentioned before, I have heard for a long time about the possibility of playing at NC as part of some "tournament" set-up. Not really a tournament of course, because how can you have a tournament when only 4 of the 8 teams invited can play toward a championship? That editorializing aside, I do think this suggests that at some point this coming year we might be playing at least two if not all of the three non-BCS teams listed above. If the format is the same as last season I would think we would be at a single site with 3 games in 3 nights, but it would NOT be in Bridgeport. However I have heard a couple of other thoughts (strictly rumor) that somehow we might get one home game with one of these teams, plus we might play a game at Northwestern. Doesn't quite make sense to me how this arrangement could be made, but like I say that is something that may come about. I will say that if we have to play at NC and Northwestern very early in the season this would not be good for a team that needs to establish some confidence. On the other hand a trip to Chicago is nice, and it also might help with recruiting. Just stating what I know at this time.