Two former H/C get another shot at being the head man at their schools. Tom Peccora at Quinnipiac and Chris Casey , interim head coach at FF. I wish Tom success in Hamden but not against the stags. It would be great to see Chris be named H/C after having a successful 23/24 season under difficult circumstances.
I hope Chris has a lot of success and we have a great year. Realistically, I think he will need to have a very strong year for his title to move from Interim Head Coach to head coach. I hope it happens and we win 20 but that will be a tall order given what appears will be a slow start.
I think the decision will be made mostly on how we finish and how the players respond and develop over the season. He’s got a tall order. But if our guards perform he’s got a shot at sticking.
A historical note: if I understand this correctly, over the past 3 seasons — in a ranking of how teams play away from their home court, we were the 25th best in the country. Strange to see us in the top 25 in anything related to men’s basketball over the past 3 seasons.
College basketball has continued to grow and there are a lot more low/mid-major schools as options. If I were mid-major coach, I'd try for 2 P5 buy games and an exempt tourney. After that I think you just focus on home and home with other low/mid-majors.
I think the non-D1 scheduling is just schools is just an attempt to fluff a record that nobody care about anyway. I have no idea.
Here’s a theory as to why most MAAC teams schedule a non-D1 school for the regular season.
Do others agree that the A-10 shifting to guarantee games instead of home and home deals is a major reason why most MAAC teams schedule a non-D1 team?
I have no opinion about that at the moment. However one thing I do have that will interest folks who think the MAAC is the main culprit of such crappy scheduling is the fact that tonight, the official start of the college season, there are no less than 70 scheduled contests of this type on the docket. Included in that BTW are both Rider and Quinnipiac, the latter who will be tipping off against our D-3 opponent from last year, Coast Guard. Actually although I'm not in favor of these match ups in general, I do think in this one particular year given the state of the Stags and their injury situation, getting a home opener against one of these teams is not a bad thing and might help to settle the situation a little bit (IF THEY WIN OF COURSE), especially if they are coming back from a rocky beginning after playing BC and URI on the road. If this one game can help stabilize things as a couple of our guys start to get healthy, so much the better IMO.
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Here’s a theory as to why most MAAC teams schedule a non-D1 school for the regular season.
Do others agree that the A-10 shifting to guarantee games instead of home and home deals is a major reason why most MAAC teams schedule a non-D1 team?
I'm not buying it. There are a ton of new D1 teams that need games. LeMoyne case in point. Last year, Hartford couldn't fill out their slate. There are teams in the America east, ivy, CAA and NEC that we could talk to. So I think this is more excuse than reality. Teams want an easy win and to pump up their record. They want to give the home fans a laugher and get walk on's in the game. I really don't think the A-10's decision is having that big of a scheduling impact.
From what I’ve seen, aside from us, Niagara has had the strangest things happen so far. They committed to a MTE which they couldn’t participate in, it would’ve been them playing in the same MTE twice within three years which the NCAA has a rule against. So they lost two regular season games. Now they’ve been told by the NCAA that the player they brought to MAAC Media Day in Atlantic City has no eligibility left and won’t be playing any more college basketball.
Edit: Looks like Niagara might have found a game to make up for the two it lost when it wasn’t allowed to playin the MTE they committed to. I’m confused as to how Hawaii would have 32 games; I thought 31 was the maximum.
The leading scorer in Friday’s Rady’s Children’s Invitational championship game between Oklahoma and Southern Cal was a former Siena guard.
Also, after 6 games former Niagara player Noah Thomasson is the leading scorer for the 3-3 Georgia Bulldogs. He’s hitting almost 38% of his 3 point attempts.
Federman tweeted a Bart Torvik graph for MAAC players. The x-axis measures usage with the y-axis showing offensive rating. Hopefully everyone has a touchscreen monitor so they can expand the graph and read the names of the players.
And it looks like Friday’s game against Iona will feature 2 of the 3 teams in the most desirable quadrant in this turnover graph.
Here’s a theory as to why most MAAC teams schedule a non-D1 school for the regular season.
Do others agree that the A-10 shifting to guarantee games instead of home and home deals is a major reason why most MAAC teams schedule a non-D1 team?
2 mid-majors playing D3 teams could always play each other, instead. it's a choice to fluff records for whatever reason. it isn't just mid-majors. high majors do it, too.