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OSU Flyer 03-16-2018 05:19 PM

Scheduling Theory/NCAA Seeding/Etc.
 
I figure might was well start this so the topic so it doesn't bleed into other threads.

springborofan 03-16-2018 06:06 PM

Can we just change the thread title to UD2 vs. the gang?

OSU Flyer 03-16-2018 06:08 PM

There's some good and worthy discussion to be had on this topic

CE80 03-16-2018 06:53 PM

For home games schedule teams with a projected RPI under 75 or go for the weakest team you can get. Sounds like it doesn't matter what your RPI is, only your opponent's. Either get a quad 1 or 2 win or don't lose.

Alberto Strasse 03-17-2018 11:41 AM

Dayton
 
must travel to play quality opponents on the road as home wins at UD arena have been devalued.

SeasonTicketFan 03-17-2018 11:56 AM

Note to Neil.

Don't schedule to play UMBC next year.

OSU Flyer 03-17-2018 12:16 PM

Bruce Rasmussen, selection committee chairman and Creighton athletic director

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Dirk is correct in stating that the non-conference SOS has its flaws. It only takes into account the won-lost records of who you played, not where you played the game, not the outcome of the game, and most importantly, not the strength of the team you played. For instance, for non-conference SOS purposes, a game at home against 9-6 Penn has a more positive impact on non-conference SOS than a game on the road against 7-5 Indiana because winning 9/15 games is a better decimal than winning 7/12.

Non-conference SOS is not a predominant tool in selections.


Again, while non-conference SOS is a number referred to by the committee and the public, it is not the non-conference SOS that the committee looks at but the non-conference games with specifics that the committee looks at. Did you give the committee a picture of whether or not you should be in consideration for an at-large spot or a high seed in the tournament if you did not win your conference tournament?
http://www.omaha.com/sports/blogs/ma...1d32c13f9.html

The whole thing is worth reading. Many myths about SOS & RPI propagated in public

it boils down to, Did you collect scalps over the course of the season? Did you challenge yourself in your OOC and provide yourself with a schedule that proves you deserve at an at large bid or a high seed?

CE80 03-17-2018 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 544257)
Bruce Rasmussen, selection committee chairman and Creighton athletic director



http://www.omaha.com/sports/blogs/ma...1d32c13f9.html

The whole thing is worth reading. Many myths about SOS & RPI propagated in public

it boils down to, Did you collect scalps over the course of the season? Did you challenge yourself in your OOC and provide yourself with a schedule that proves you deserve at an at large bid or a high seed?

The flaw still is that RPI is very important - not yours, but who you play. RPI can be gamed collectively and this is what I believe happens with the P5 conferences. They are able to chalk up more wins collectively in the non-conference part of the schedule and that benefits all its members during the conference season.

The talk all sounds good and makes sense but the goal posts keep moving. I don't disagree that schools like UD need to go out and schedule quality games both at home and on the road but more important than scheduling is still winning some of those and a bunch in conference.

Radar 03-17-2018 01:00 PM

I'll throw this link in here...with great trepidation. Arch likes to somehow weave Dayton into stories, especially a feel-good one like Wright State's trip to the tourney, when it really isn't the time or place. But if he feels better poking the bear so be it:

https://www.mydaytondailynews.com/sp...smsLefzqvxOLM/

OSU Flyer 03-17-2018 01:05 PM

If Memphis gets going under Penny and UConn becomes competitive again along with the 20 game schedule propping up the Nebraskas and Penn States of the world the competition for those at large bids is going up

CE80 03-18-2018 08:52 AM

Doesn't the women's team play more pre-conference tournaments? I wonder if more games on neutral courts with similar teams makes sense?

THirt 03-18-2018 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by CE80 (Post 544338)
Doesn't the women's team play more pre-conference tournaments? I wonder if more games on neutral courts with similar teams makes sense?

I think the rules are different for men... I believe you can only play in one exempt tournament per year, and cannot play in any individual tourney more than every four years. Neutral site events are different, such as our game against Northwestern a couple years ago... but there are only so many of those around. I know UD wanted to get another neutral game for this past season but couldn’t make it work. In general, these events love to have UD involved because of how well our fans travel, and it is a creative way for us to get games against better competition that wouldn’t agree to a home and home series.

Anyway, I’m 100% sure UD would like to play more neutral site games, but we are a little limited there. Most bigger schools only want to play in these events if it is another big school.

The preseason tournaments remain by far our best way to get games against P5 schools.
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CE80 03-18-2018 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by THirt (Post 544339)
I think the rules are different for men... I believe you can only play in one exempt tournament per year, and cannot play in any individual tourney more than every four years. Neutral site events are different, such as our game against Northwestern a couple years ago... but there are only so many of those around. I know UD wanted to get another neutral game for this past season but couldn’t make it work. In general, these events love to have UD involved because of how well our fans travel, and it is a creative way for us to get games against better competition that wouldn’t agree to a home and home series.

Anyway, I’m 100% sure UD would like to play more neutral site games, but we are a little limited there. Most bigger schools only want to play in these events if it is another big school.

The preseason tournaments remain by far our best way to get games against P5 schools.
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Maybe a tournament would not work but like you said, maybe more neutral site games like the Northwestern game done as a header with other schools in the same boat. Instead of Bracket Buster, they could be billed as Bracket Maker games.

THirt 03-18-2018 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by CE80 (Post 544355)
Maybe a tournament would not work but like you said, maybe more neutral site games like the Northwestern game done as a header with other schools in the same boat. Instead of Bracket Buster, they could be billed as Bracket Maker games.

This would be great, and I think UD would happily trade a home game for one of these. There just are not that many opportunities that work. The rumored Ohio Classic with UD/UC/OSU/other would be perfect. A neutral game every year against an AAC/B1G/Big East school? Yes, please.

Otherwise, I’m not sure who would agree... most of the schools that would be worth playing also want/need a certain # of home games. Maybe with Coach Grant’s southern ties, we can get a game against an SEC/ACC/AAC type opponent in Tennessee, Carolina, Georgia or somewhere which would be reasonable for the Flyer Faithful to travel.

Better yet, let’s get a game at the Q against say, Michigan State (I was unable to think of a realistic team kinda near Cleveland who would be willing to play us and also would be worth it for us to play. Suggestions?)
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CE80 03-18-2018 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by THirt (Post 544363)
This would be great, and I think UD would happily trade a home game for one of these. There just are not that many opportunities that work. The rumored Ohio Classic with UD/UC/OSU/other would be perfect. A neutral game every year against an AAC/B1G/Big East school? Yes, please.

Otherwise, I’m not sure who would agree... most of the schools that would be worth playing also want/need a certain # of home games. Maybe with Coach Grant’s southern ties, we can get a game against an SEC/ACC/AAC type opponent in Tennessee, Carolina, Georgia or somewhere which would be reasonable for the Flyer Faithful to travel.

Better yet, let’s get a game at the Q against say, Michigan State (I was unable to think of a realistic team kinda near Cleveland who would be willing to play us and also would be worth it for us to play. Suggestions?)
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I think some of the MAC schools may fall into that category. Maybe we would not want to enter into a H/H with them and a one way home game may not have enough quad juice but neutral may be enough.

OSU Flyer 03-18-2018 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by THirt (Post 544363)
This would be great, and I think UD would happily trade a home game for one of these. There just are not that many opportunities that work. The rumored Ohio Classic with UD/UC/OSU/other would be perfect. A neutral game every year against an AAC/B1G/Big East school? Yes, please.

Otherwise, I’m not sure who would agree... most of the schools that would be worth playing also want/need a certain # of home games. Maybe with Coach Grant’s southern ties, we can get a game against an SEC/ACC/AAC type opponent in Tennessee, Carolina, Georgia or somewhere which would be reasonable for the Flyer Faithful to travel.

Better yet, let’s get a game at the Q against say, Michigan State (I was unable to think of a realistic team kinda near Cleveland who would be willing to play us and also would be worth it for us to play. Suggestions?)
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Bring back the old Rock n' Roll shootout.

Realistically it would have to be a school that recruits that area hard or is looking to bring to a kid back home for a game like North Carolina sometimes does. Cleveland doesn't have a big alumni base for any school in the P5/BE outside of Ohio State. Northeastern Ohio isn't a big recruiting terrority for many schools in the P5 outside of some occasional guys for Michigan State

Davidson lucks out for being in the Charlotte area so they can get some ACC teams that want to play in the biggest city in state and home of many ACC alumni at the Hornet's arena. Our problem with neutral site games is I don't think anyone wants to play in Cincy, CBus or Cleveland. Ohio State wants to play up there occasionally but they don't want to play Dayton

OSU Flyer 03-18-2018 12:02 PM

The Ohio tourney is dead. Gene Smith spoke at whatever the Columbus version of the Agnonis Club and said it's virtually certain they don't have room for it anymore.

They don't want to play more than 23-24 games against high major compeition. They're locked in with the 20 Big 10 games, B10/ACC Challenge, CBS Sports Classic (against either UK, UCLA or UNC), Gavitt Games against the Big East. Smith said anything else would be a high profile made for TV matchup

OSU Flyer 03-18-2018 01:14 PM

We get burned by geography when it comes to scheduling. Dayton area isn't a big recruiting ground and not big enough to have much of an alumni base. George Washington was able to get a H/H with Miami Fla. because Jim Larranaga hits the DMV hard in recruiting. That area puts out so many players teams are more likely to play them in some fashion

LaSalle was able to get Miami to play a neutral site game in Reading, PA because Miami's star freshman Lonnie Walker is from there

A lot of schools will use their football team as bargaining chip for their basketball.
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Western Kentucky and Arkansas have agreed to a three-game series over men’s basketball and football which brings the Southeastern Conference’s Razorbacks to E.A. Diddle Arena in 2019-20.

As part of the agreement, the Hilltoppers will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., in 2019 for a single football game and have a home-and-home series in men’s basketball.

Western Kentucky will travel to Fayetteville during the 2018-19 season in men’s basketball and receive a return visit the following season.
Southern Illinois was able to get Indiana play them at home using their football

OSU Flyer 03-18-2018 03:49 PM

So the single most bizarre seed of the NCAA tourney to me and great example how ridiculous things are in favor of the P5/BE is TCU. They got a sixth seed and Lunardi kept them there for a while leading up to selection Sunday.

Let's take a look at TCU's schedule.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...u-horned-frogs

TCU plays 13 games in OOC. They play one P5 team and one road game losing at Vanderbilt (the worst team in the SEC & one of the worst P5 teams this year)

They win the other 12 to 12-1 in OOC. 9 games at home and the only non buy game as which best I can tell is SMU. They beat Nevada on a neutral court and played in an exempt tourney beating St. Bonaventure and New Mexico on a neutral court.

Big 12 play they lose all 4 games against the two best teams in the conference, Kansas and Texas Tech. Swept by Oklahoma. They split with Kansas State, Texas and Baylor. Their best win all year is a home win over West Virginia. 3-6 on the road in the Big 12 against Iowa St the worst team in the league and NIT teams in Oklahoma State & Baylor.

9-9 in the Big 12. 3 road wins all year, 3 neutral courts wins (2 against tourney teams)

Those wins against West Virginia, Nevada, K-State, Texas, Bonnies and some NIT teams it seems what matters.

Kudos to them for playing Nevada on a neutral court but that's a soft OOC schedule especially for a P5. They go 9-9 in conference, don't beat a tourney team on the road with ample chances, don't beat Kansas or Texas Tech and they get a 6th seed. Seems ridiculous

CE80 03-18-2018 05:29 PM

That's the thing OSUFlyer, way back the committees penalized the like of Syracuse and Va Tech for playing a weak OOC schedule especially lack of OOC road games. Recent committees have only penalized non-P5 for lack of quality OOC games. A .500 P5 record is acceptable even if the non-conference schedule was weak.

OSU Flyer 03-18-2018 06:08 PM

I don't think TCU would have gotten a 6 if they didn't think Nevada and the Bonnies were good wins on a neutral court. That I see as big for us that they see some value in a win over tourney caliber non P5/BE team

From TCU, Oklahoma, Cuse, etc this year. It's about collecting wins over tourney or tourney caliber teams that are at large quality.

Flyerferd 03-21-2018 02:52 PM

We will know very early where we stand next year. We need to win the first game in Atlantis. We win two out of three down there, I like where we are going turn of it wise.
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CE80 03-21-2018 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyerferd (Post 544909)
We will know very early where we stand next year. We need to win the first game in Atlantis. We win two out of three down there, I like where we are going turn of it wise.
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That's the thing with all this scheduling talk and mid majors being left out. I really don't think it would happen to UD. I believe we will have enough chances to prove ourselves.

OSU Flyer 03-21-2018 08:49 PM

This is a long shot but something that might be able to happen.

North Carolina has played away games to give their seniors a game in or near their home towns. Notably they played at Evansville so Tyler Zeller could have a game near his home in Indiana and played at Northern Iowa to get Marcus Paige a game back near his Iowa hometown.

Sterling Manley for them is going to be a junior next year and is from suburban Columbus. If they don't get something set up with Ohio State we could offer to play a neutral site game against them at Nationwide Arena and give them a home game on top of it.

They've got another guy, Jeremiah Francis, coming in from Columbus next year so that might make them more interested in playing a game there.

CE80 03-21-2018 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 544975)
This is a long shot but something that might be able to happen.

North Carolina has played away games to give their seniors a game in or near their home towns. Notably they played at Evansville so Tyler Zeller could have a game near his home in Indiana and played at Northern Iowa to get Marcus Paige a game back near his Iowa hometown.

Sterling Manley for them is going to be a junior next year and is from suburban Columbus. If they don't get something set up with Ohio State we could offer to play a neutral site game against them at Nationwide Arena and give them a home game on top of it.

They've got another guy, Jeremiah Francis, coming in from Columbus next year so that might make them more interested in playing a game there.

I was thinking of whether something similar could be done in Cleveland? A game so someone from NE Ohio could play in front of more family and friends but the team wants somebody better than Clev St, Akron or Kent.

Donniex3Era 03-21-2018 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 544267)
If Memphis gets going under Penny and UConn becomes competitive again along with the 20 game schedule propping up the Nebraskas and Penn States of the world the competition for those at large bids is going up

Memphis and UCONN are a few years out..otherwise, why fire their coaches
They are both back to the rebuilding stage..Nebraska and Penn State are both football schools...that's a tough b-ball head coach job concerning university support...better examples are St Mary's, USC,Marquette, Indiana, Illinois, Okla
St, etc .. decent teams that did not make the dance...all with good coaches staying

OSU Flyer 03-21-2018 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CE80 (Post 544976)
I was thinking of whether something similar could be done in Cleveland? A game so someone from NE Ohio could play in front of more family and friends but the team wants somebody better than Clev St, Akron or Kent.

North Carolina is the only big school that I know of that'll try to get home games for its seniors. Maybe there are some others out there

OSU Flyer 03-21-2018 11:57 PM

As far as Cleveland goes, the only school I know of interested in playing up there is Ohio State. They've got a bunch of people they're after in NE Ohio the next couples years. Unfortunately I think they'd be happy to play Cleveland State

OSU Flyer 03-23-2018 07:16 AM

So watching the Kansas State game last night I looked up their schedules over the past couple of years.

They played over the course of the past couple years St. Louis H/H, Colorado State at a neutral court in Wichita and at CSU, and started a H/H with Tulsa this year.

Don't know if they'd play us but they at least entertain the idea of playing non P5 Schools H/H

OSU Flyer 03-23-2018 07:45 AM

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Saint Mary's is looking to start a home-and-home with a top-75 RPI team, so maybe there is hope that Randy Bennett finally got the message...

there's a picture of what looks like the basketball travelers website with St. Mary's request for a game

Flyerferd 03-23-2018 11:02 AM

A couple of questions,
Outside of the Bahamas, what nonconference games are scheduled? Mississippi State at home and Auburn on the road? Secondly, Will the Atlantic 10 make pod adjustments to giving historically top teams an opportunity to have more quad one opportunities and less quad four opportunities? To me, that could accomplish two things. First, keep teams that may be a threat of leaving in the conference, and secondly, not so subtly tell other teams, shape up or prepared to be a second-class citizen in the conference? Think a sort of internal relegation system like they use in the European soccer leagues.
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OSU Flyer 03-23-2018 06:32 PM

That's all that I know of right now about next years schedule. The only thing to add that folks might not know here is that we'll get an Atlantis on the Mainland game (a 4th one from the tourney) against a buy game caliber opponent.

Absolutely agree on the second point ferd. In the junior year of the Cooke/KD/KP/Scooch class we got stuck playing Fordham/Duquesne/LaSalle H/H when any reasonable observer would have estimated that was a tourney caliber team. We played VCU once that year

It costs not only Quad wins but attractive games for TV for the league

It seems like we're tethered to Duquesne and St. Louis for H/Hs. I certainly hope this changes. I'm fine with each conference team having a semi permanent H/H partner like St Louis for Dayton but to be stuck playing Duquesne every year is ridiculous to me

If the St. Bonaventure only played Rhode Island once this year at URI and they don't get that home win over Rhody, they're in the NIT this year

longtimefan 03-23-2018 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyerferd (Post 545443)
Will the Atlantic 10 make pod adjustments to giving historically top teams an opportunity to have more quad one opportunities and less quad four opportunities?

Probably not. It makes too much sense.

OSU Flyer 03-26-2018 06:32 PM

http://www.wccsports.com/sports/m-ba...032618aaa.html

So this is interesting and likely a ploy to keep Gonzaga in the WCC. They've reduced the number of conference games from 18 to 16

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Additionally, starting with the 2019-20 season, WCC men’s basketball programs will be required to compete in a multi-team event (MTE) each season, annually play more home games than away games, and schedule and play no more than two non-Division I opponents per season. In addition, the Conference must approve all “guarantee” games in which a WCC member is paid by an opponent to play at the opponent’s venue.

CE80 03-26-2018 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 545912)
http://www.wccsports.com/sports/m-ba...032618aaa.html

So this is interesting and likely a ploy to keep Gonzaga in the WCC. They've reduced the number of conference games from 18 to 16

Is it that easy to get into a MTE every season?

ruechalgrin 03-26-2018 06:57 PM

Neil Sullivan is top 5 in the country out of 351 ADs in optimizing scheduling for a NCAA Bid. I would argue if Dayton had 345/351 ADs in 2014 and 2015 scheduling instead, Dayton does not get into either NCAA Tournament!

OSU Flyer 03-26-2018 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ruechalgrin (Post 545918)
Neil Sullivan is top 5 in the country out of 351 ADs in optimizing scheduling for a NCAA Bid. I would argue if Dayton had 345/351 ADs in 2014 and 2015 scheduling instead, Dayton does not get into either NCAA Tournament!

He's good but gaming the RPI is old. The Missouri Valley famously did this in the mid 00s and the Mountain West recently. There's a lot of schools that are good at this

Way disagree he could have gotten Bama into the tourney any more times than AD actually did

http://thesouthern.com/sports/valley...392b31254.html

OSU Flyer 04-02-2018 02:48 PM

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/...rence-payouts/

The only thing better than a 74-65 nonconference win over then-No. 2 Kansas is cashing a $90,000 check from the Jayhawks, which essentially paid for the Washington men’s basketball team’s trip to Kansas City, Mo. on Dec. 6.

A review of the Huskies’ nonconference payouts reveals UW spent $773,000 for 10 opponents, including an exhibition game against Saint Martin’s University.

Washington (10-3) paid between $100,000 and $80,000 to seven teams, which played at Alaska Airlines Arena. The Huskies also paid $150,000 to 2K Sports Classic, which provided two nonconference home opponents (Belmont and Seattle University).

OSU Flyer 04-02-2018 03:01 PM


CE80 04-02-2018 03:11 PM

Interesting that they could get paid $90k to play at Kansas. I wonder how many P5 programs actually played an away buy game.

OSU Flyer 04-02-2018 03:23 PM

it was for a neutral site game at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Kansas plays a game there every year I think

CE80 04-02-2018 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 546644)
it was for a neutral site game at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Kansas plays a game there every year I think

I guess technically it is a neutral site game but it's about 45 miles from Lawrence to the Sprint Center and 1800 miles from UW. Doesn't seem very neutral. Did Kansas get paid too?

OSU Flyer 04-02-2018 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by CE80 (Post 546645)
I guess technically it is a neutral site game but it's about 45 miles from Lawrence to the Sprint Center and 1800 miles from UW. Doesn't seem very neutral. Did Kansas get paid too?

I think Kansas pays a fee to rent the Sprint Center and gets a cut of the ticket sales

UD62 04-02-2018 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CE80 (Post 546645)
I guess technically it is a neutral site game but it's about 45 miles from Lawrence to the Sprint Center and 1800 miles from UW. Doesn't seem very neutral. Did Kansas get paid too?

The exact point Providence made about our Dance game in Columbus.

CE80 04-02-2018 04:25 PM

Based on this, it was considered a home game.

http://warrennolan.com/basketball/20...et?team=Kansas

I thought I remembered (but could not find it after an online search) that Kansas could not play NCAAT games at the Sprint Center. Maybe it is just the first/second round games or maybe I am off base.

Edit - I found something that says a team has to play 4 games on a home court to be precluded from playing an NCAAT game on that court.

OSU Flyer 04-02-2018 04:32 PM

Why Nevada basketball's non-league schedule will cost it $200,000

While every coach of a good team’s goal is to set up a non-conference schedule that can put it in contention for an NCAA Tournament at-large spot, there also is the often overlooked financial element of putting together such a schedule. For a single-game series, there is typically a payout involved from the home team to the visitor. For home-and-home series, payouts typically don’t exist. The more money teams have in their budget, the more home games they can buy during non-conference play.


https://www.rgj.com/story/sports/col...000/806706001/

Nevada is public institution so through open records request they got the details on Nevada's OOC schedule

CE80 04-02-2018 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 546651)
Why Nevada basketball's non-league schedule will cost it $200,000

While every coach of a good team’s goal is to set up a non-conference schedule that can put it in contention for an NCAA Tournament at-large spot, there also is the often overlooked financial element of putting together such a schedule. For a single-game series, there is typically a payout involved from the home team to the visitor. For home-and-home series, payouts typically don’t exist. The more money teams have in their budget, the more home games they can buy during non-conference play.


https://www.rgj.com/story/sports/col...000/806706001/

Nevada is public institution so through open records request they got the details on Nevada's OOC schedule

I seem to recall that this was a big issue with Will Wade when he was still at VCU. He wanted the budget increased to buy more games or better teams.

OSU Flyer 04-02-2018 04:48 PM

I can't find the article but in the Lexington paper the amount that Vermont got from UK was over 100K

CE80 04-02-2018 05:02 PM

It will be interesting to see how the quadrant "thing" plays out with respect to buy games. I believe some of the smaller D1 schools use the buy money to fund their basketball, if not their entire athletic budget. Schools may not be as willing to pay for some of the weaker teams any more or they may pay even bigger $s for the RPI under 75 teams. Will teams pay $s to go play one of RPI under 75 teams on the road?

OSU Flyer 04-02-2018 05:22 PM

Hopefully Fordham can just start playing buy games vs the MEAC/SWAC at home

wes 04-02-2018 06:42 PM

Did Playing anybody anytime help Temple back when Channey was coach?

NCkevi 04-03-2018 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by wes (Post 546659)
Did Playing anybody anytime help Temple back when Channey was coach?

24 seasons at Temple
23 straight post-season bids (6 NIT - 17 NCAA)

ud2 04-06-2018 11:43 AM

Rhode Island is playing 16 away/neutral games in 2018-2019.

Heck, there are not even doing a 15/15, they are doing 14 or 15 at home and 16 away/neutral.


:deadhorse:


http://keaneyblue.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6840


Away
Providence
Brown
Holy Cross at the DCU Center
College of Charleston

Neutral
Diamond Head Classic at University of Hawaii December 22, 23, and 25
3 games vs. UNLV, TCU, Colorado, Bucknell, Indiana State, Hawaii, and Charlotte

Plus 9 away A10 league games.






Home
Alabama
Nevada
West Virginia at Mohegan Sun Sunday, December 16th (this is technically a home game)

OSU Flyer 04-06-2018 12:00 PM

Wonder why they're playing Holy Cross in Springfield, Mass.

CT Flyer 04-06-2018 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 546980)
Wonder why they're playing Holy Cross in Springfield, Mass.

DCU Center is Worcester, MA.

ud2 04-08-2018 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by ud2 (Post 546977)
Rhode Island is playing 16 away/neutral games in 2018-2019.

Heck, there are not even doing a 15/15, they are doing 14 or 15 at home and 16 away/neutral.


:deadhorse:


http://keaneyblue.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6840


Away
Providence
Brown
Holy Cross at the DCU Center
College of Charleston

Neutral
Diamond Head Classic at University of Hawaii December 22, 23, and 25
3 games vs. UNLV, TCU, Colorado, Bucknell, Indiana State, Hawaii, and Charlotte

Plus 9 away A10 league games.






Home
Alabama
Nevada
West Virginia at Mohegan Sun Sunday, December 16th (this is technically a home game)

We usually play around 6 or 7 tougher OOC games...1 or 2 at home...1 or 2 away...3 in tourney.

I would like to see us do what URI did and get one more tougher game on the schedule to get to 8 tougher ooc games...PC, C of C, 3 in tourney, and 3 at home.

C of C was #57 last year.

The WVU and Alabama games are likely h and h.

Brown and HC are not any good, why are those road games? They are both usually anywhere from 150+ to 250+.

ud2 04-08-2018 11:45 AM

Brown and HC are quadrant 3 and 4 road games, maybe Brown is just a local rivalry game.

But, why play at HC?


The breakdown will be as follows:


Quadrant 1: Home 1-30; Neutral 1-50; Away 1-75
Quadrant 2: Home 31-75; Neutral 51-100; Away 76-135
Quadrant 3: Home 76-160; Neutral 101-200; Away 136-240
Quadrant 4: Home 161-plus; Neutral 201-plus; Away 241-plus.

CE80 04-08-2018 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ud2 (Post 547135)



Brown and HC are not any good, why are those road games? They are both usually anywhere from 150+ to 250+.

Brown is in Providence. It is a local game if not a rivalry.

HC is in the region. Easy (and cheaper) travel.

OSU Flyer 04-12-2018 12:22 AM

I think this quadrant systems incentives teams in the position to play road games vs neutral games.

I would have loved to have started a series on the road with Western Kentucky. Several good freshman this year and depending on how they do on the the grad transfer market (got two starters from Kansas and Virginia last year) they should contend or be 2nd in CUSA behind Marshall.

The home game the next year when their freshman this year are juniors and

Hayes Gardner
‏ @HayesGardner

Charles Bassey is No. 3 in the class of 2019 and right now his recruitment is surprisingly being led by Western Kentucky University. The 6-foot-10 center hits an elbow jumper here.

OSU Flyer 05-10-2018 03:14 PM

In other UB scheduling news, the non-conference game at Marquette is confirmed for December 21. Marquette will pay $100,000 to the University at Buffalo.

https://www.ubbullrun.com/buffalo-ba...f-fame-tip-off

Buffalo is expected to be a top tier team again next year. From what I've been able to gather it's 100K plus to get a top tier opponent in for a guarantee game

CE80 05-10-2018 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 550332)
In other UB scheduling news, the non-conference game at Marquette is confirmed for December 21. Marquette will pay $100,000 to the University at Buffalo.

https://www.ubbullrun.com/buffalo-ba...f-fame-tip-off

Buffalo is expected to be a top tier team again next year. From what I've been able to gather it's 100K plus to get a top tier opponent in for a guarantee game

So do you think the fee the bottom dwellers were getting has gone down and the fee the upper tier of the low/mid majors has gone up?

OSU Flyer 05-10-2018 04:01 PM

I think everyone's price has gone up but especially the higher RPI teams. More schools than ever are concerned about getting good guarantee games. I saw Savannah State which is a bad RPI team was getting 90K from Iowa for a game next season.

That's probably a decent chunk of the basketball budgets bringing these teams in

OSU Flyer 05-19-2018 02:27 PM

@AlexHalsted
The Big 12 and Big East have had discussions about a potential basketball "scheduling alliance" as more leagues go to 20-game conference schedules: https://bit.ly/2rGXaEU

longtimefan 05-19-2018 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 551125)
@AlexHalsted
The Big 12 and Big East have had discussions about a potential basketball "scheduling alliance" as more leagues go to 20-game conference schedules: https://bit.ly/2rGXaEU

And the A-10 is doing what??? Apparently nothing. That is one more reason we should be exploring the AAC. With 14 teams they could easily go to a 20-game schedule.

OSU Flyer 05-19-2018 07:53 PM

The A10 will got to 20 games and make Fordham a H/H

N2663R 06-08-2018 11:24 AM

What ever happened to the scheduling deal the A10 was supposed to get when we gave up the Barclays Centre to the ACC? I thought we were supposed to get a number of H/H games over a number of years and then we got the Barclays Center back. Is that done?

OSU Flyer 06-08-2018 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by N2663R (Post 552262)
What ever happened to the scheduling deal the A10 was supposed to get when we gave up the Barclays Centre to the ACC? I thought we were supposed to get a number of H/H games over a number of years and then we got the Barclays Center back. Is that done?

yeah, it ended up be liking two games at Barclays that were super lame. Like Fordham and some other bottom feeder

OSU Flyer 06-13-2018 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 547671)
I think this quadrant systems incentives teams in the position to play road games vs neutral games.

I would have loved to have started a series on the road with Western Kentucky. Several good freshman this year and depending on how they do on the the grad transfer market (got two starters from Kansas and Virginia last year) they should contend or be 2nd in CUSA behind Marshall.

The home game the next year when their freshman this year are juniors and

Hayes Gardner
‏ @HayesGardner

Charles Bassey is No. 3 in the class of 2019 and right now his recruitment is surprisingly being led by Western Kentucky University. The 6-foot-10 center hits an elbow jumper here.

@JonRothstein
BREAKING: Five-Star prospect Charles Bassey has committed to Western Kentucky and will reclassify into the 2018 class, per multiple sources. Will begin summer school immediately.

springborofan 06-13-2018 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 552597)
@JonRothstein
BREAKING: Five-Star prospect Charles Bassey has committed to Western Kentucky and will reclassify into the 2018 class, per multiple sources. Will begin summer school immediately.

How doe$ thi$ happen? Hmmm...

OSU Flyer 06-13-2018 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by springborofan (Post 552602)
How doe$ thi$ happen? Hmmm...

Bassey is from Nigeria originally and Stansbury is in good with his guardian. One of the guardians other 'kids' is on Western

hawkoooo 06-13-2018 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by longtimefan (Post 551139)
And the A-10 is doing what??? Apparently nothing. That is one more reason we should be exploring the AAC. With 14 teams they could easily go to a 20-game schedule.

I said this in another thread but I'll repeat myself here. The A10 is dead. The stupid pod announcement and all these other conferences around you trying to get better while we sit has really hammered that home to me.

TXFlyerFan 06-14-2018 08:57 AM

I don't know that it's dead, but it certainly seems to suffer from poor leadership and lack of forward thinking.

OSU Flyer 09-15-2018 03:46 PM

@GaryParrishCBS
I get how frustrating it is for mid-major coaches when they can’t secure home-and-home series with power-conference teams. But guess what? That’s not changing. So it’s time to adapt and just take Quadrant 1 opportunities however you can get them.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...all-realities/

Jeff 09-15-2018 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 544157)
I figure might was well start this so the topic so it doesn't bleed into other threads.

Thank you. MVP move.

ud2 10-15-2018 12:10 PM

Wow, the Rhode Island fans are really ticked at Nevada for cancelling the return game at URI this year as part of their home-and-home series.

http://keaneyblue.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7703:

Has to be Nevada after what they pulled. I also can’t stand Musselman and the Nevada fans on the social media. You would think they are Kentucky


Agree with the last 2 thoughts. Nevada for sure

Nevada pulled a chicken **** move. Hope the injury bug hits them big time.

I want them to somehow suck but with no injuries, those kids did nothing wrong

Nevada canceled because they thought they were too good for us this year. I want them to completely suck so Musselman looks like a total jack***

Nevada I want to have a good but not good enough year.

I want them to be on the bubble and end up in the NIT due to lack of quality wins/SOS issues.

Nevada is top of the ***** list and I have never rooted for someone to fail so miserably. Their play doesn't affect us this year since we don't have them on the schedule. Their conference is one of comparable competitiveness to the A10, and as their premier program - them suffering would help prop up the A10 since there is always a premium for non-P5 schools to go to the dance.

At the 11th hour they *****ed out and bailed on a contract that we took on all of the risk and travel bull**** for. We had to fly all the way across the country for a late-ass game, took an injury to our star player, and took an L - AND THEY BAILED ON US WHEN WE HAD THE CHANCE TO RETURN THE FAVOR. We could've played them at home last season, waxed that ass in front of a sold out Ryan Center on ESPN, had a Q1 win, and possibly not faced Duke in the 2nd round of the NCAA's - possibly looking at a Sweet 16 or beyond.

No, no - **** Nevada. If they never had another win or anything good happen to them, if Musselman got fired 3 years from now after compiling a .150 winning percentage, if the Martin twins get Space Jam'd and lose all their talent and never play in the NBA - all of that is too good for them.

**** Nevada.



Most years I'd pick one of Pvd/Ucon/Uass depending on my mood that day, but Nevada for that chicken **** cowardly move.

It was tough to not vote for Nevada. I went for the old standby PC instead.

UCONN and Nevada, PC being good helps us, I'd like to see Dan fall flat and #$#% Nevada.

Whenever I see Jon Rothstein tweet about Nevada I feel the need to have to reply & call Nevada week for refusing to travel east. **** that team

CE80 10-15-2018 01:19 PM

It would be worse if Nevada pulled that on the Flyers.

CE80 10-15-2018 04:43 PM

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Source: The Big East and Big 12 have officially agreed to an annual "challenge" between the two conferences, starting during the 19-20 season. Official announcement expected soon.


They are doing everything they can to shut out the non P5 and BE.

jack72 11-05-2018 06:33 PM

Hearing all the stuff about top teams will not schedule smaller teams except in buy games, I about fell off my chair when I heard UNC's schedule to start the season: at Elon and at Wofford. Not the rule, but the exception, but it is happening, twice.

UNC continues to play Davidson in a home and neutral series.

shocka43 11-05-2018 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by jack72 (Post 560935)
Hearing all the stuff about top teams will not schedule smaller teams except in buy games, I about fell off my chair when I heard UNC's schedule to start the season: at Elon and at Wofford. Not the rule, but the exception, but it is happening, twice.

UNC continues to play Davidson in a home and neutral series.

UK doesn't have a true road game at a non-neutral site until December 29th at Lousiville...Dayton only has one true road game at a non-neutral site in the OOC and that is Auburn. Carolina has 3 true road games.

jack72 11-06-2018 10:00 AM

Ohio ST is playing at The University of Cincinnati tonight. That would not have happened with Matta there.

rollo 11-06-2018 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by jack72 (Post 560965)
Ohio ST is playing at The University of Cincinnati tonight. That would not have happened with Matta there.

The play Wednesday night...6:00 pm...ESPN2

longtimefan 11-06-2018 11:11 AM

It is nice that North Carolina is playing a couple of road games in addition to the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, but you probably won't see them playing any good mid-majors on the road who would actually have a chance to beat them.

San Diego Flyer 11-06-2018 11:19 AM

Addressing scheduling strategy, I don't understand why we would not schedule an away game in the period prior to playing Butler. With our limited exposure together as a team, playing a quality program on the road (ok- neutral) seems like tough duty.

hawkoooo 11-06-2018 11:28 AM

I don't think the whole "big guys won't play the little guys" argument works in basketball. Football has 1/3 of the teams and you only have 4 non-con dates to work with. And the amount of quality opponents outside the P5 is WAY smaller in football.

350ish teams in hoops and most teams inside the top-100 RPI are NOT "Power 5." Not to mention the holiday tournaments, other tournaments, inter-conference "challenges," etc.

It also seems like rivalries are much more sacred in hoops. So many more games to work with.

OSU Flyer 11-06-2018 12:00 PM

I read that North Carolina is playing at Elon because they're opening up a new arena and Roy did it as a favor to them

Kudos to Roy to actually going on the road

jack72 11-06-2018 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by longtimefan (Post 560974)
It is nice that North Carolina is playing a couple of road games in addition to the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, but you probably won't see them playing any good mid-majors on the road who would actually have a chance to beat them.

You mean like Davidson, who they play in Charlotte (45 minutes from campus) because Davidson does not have a big enough arena. Would UD take a game at UNC, or Ky or Kansas, with a return game in Cincinnati? In a heartbeat.

Not sure of your definition of good mid majors? Does UD fit it after a losing season?

OSU Flyer 12-22-2018 05:50 PM

Good read about scheduling for Winthrop and why they play so many non-D1 schools. Worth a read if you're into this stuff and there's plenty of Mark Adams

Some highlights

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Winthrop paid four of those five teams, handing out $40,000 to Maryland-Eastern Shore, and a combined $9,500 to Pfeiffer, Warren Wilson and Hiwassee.

Most low/mid-majors annually schedule a handful of buy games to help the school’s finances. Dates at Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Davidson and Florida State netted Winthrop four buy game paychecks this season. The Seminoles are paying Winthrop $95,000 to come to Tallahassee and play on Jan. 1, while even Davidson paid the Eagles $85,000 to make the short trek up Interstate 77 for a Dec. 4 non-conference game.

Power 5 teams played 88 percent of their non-conference games in 2017-18 at home or on a neutral court.

The top leagues are increasing the number of conference games they play, to 20 in several cases, which decreases the number of non-conference games, and, accordingly, buy game opportunities for low/mid-major schools
https://www.heraldonline.com/sports/...222906070.html

That St. Josephs Indiana game had to have been a nice money maker for UD if the money for non D1 schools is that low

OSU Flyer 01-26-2019 01:56 PM

Valparaiso faces schedule challenges in shifting college hoops landscape

Games against non Division I teams didn’t used to count toward postseason selection, and they still aren’t counted by rating systems like the NET. That has twisted incentives, however, as teams can avoid hurting their ratings by playing games that effectively didn't happen instead of facing low-major teams like the SIU-Edwardsville and UC Riverside squads Valparaiso faced this season.

According to VU director of athletics Mark LaBarbera, that has changed. Bradley's Chris Reynolds, a fellow Missouri Valley Conference athletic director and a member of the NCAA's selection committee, told LaBarbera the committee now disapproves of scheduling non-Division I teams.

https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/bask...0bd66b04d.html

OSU Flyer 04-13-2019 04:43 AM

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
Sources: SEC teams not involved in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge will play home-and-home series' starting in 19-20 against select teams from the American Conference. The goal of the alliance between the leagues is create more Quad 1 and 2 opportunities.


Might hurt some opportunities to schedule SEC teams

CvilleFlyer 04-13-2019 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 583881)
Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
Sources: SEC teams not involved in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge will play home-and-home series' starting in 19-20 against select teams from the American Conference. The goal of the alliance between the leagues is create more Quad 1 and 2 opportunities.


Might hurt some opportunities to schedule SEC teams

Bruce Pearl at Auburn has already gone on record as saying he won't play Dayton again. He didn't want to return the favor of playing us at the UD Arena next season as he knew we would be loaded. Just ask former Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon what happens to a ranked team when they have to play at Dayton! He probably still sees Brian Roberts in his sleep!

OOC scheduling will become harder and harder next season. Season ticket holders want to see some quality teams at home and it is becoming more and more difficult. We need to win in Maui.

MNFats 04-13-2019 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 583881)
Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
Sources: SEC teams not involved in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge will play home-and-home series' starting in 19-20 against select teams from the American Conference. The goal of the alliance between the leagues is create more Quad 1 and 2 opportunities.


Might hurt some opportunities to schedule SEC teams

I know people like the A10. And I do too, but it will eventually be the death of us.

I know it's fine now, but that doesn't mean it will be. There is a book called "Jumping the S Curve". It's about identifying the ups and downs of an industry and identifying when to jump to a new thing before the current thing goes down (often without warning). Blockbuster is a great example of someone who missed their chance to jump. As everyone else focused on streaming, Blockbuster looked at a still fairly healthy DVD business and doubled down on what they knew. Now they have 1 store left in the world.

The A10 is a sinking ship. Look at all of the guys transferring out. Pipkins, Honor, Gordon, etc. We were a down league last year and aside from a couple of teams, it's not getting better. The big conferences are getting creative in finding ways to look out for themselves. They aren't going to include us in that just because we are a great program. We are on the outside. If we wait too long, we will find ourselves unable to get the schedule we need to get at large bids. The first sign of desperation will be if we try to schedule some kind of conference challenge with a similarly sinking conference, like the Mountain West.

I'm not saying moving is 100% our choice. We need to be invited. And there are certainly worse places than the A10. But if we aren't actively trying to move up, we will eventually go the way of Blockbuster.

OSU Flyer 04-13-2019 05:12 PM

I think this years OOC is gonna be the tell on what the conference challenges and 20 game schedules are going to do in terms scheduling

OSU Flyer 04-14-2019 02:18 AM

Elgin: Scheduling continues to be a moving target for MVC schools

If you want to bring a frown to a Missouri Valley Conference basketball coaches' face? Just mention scheduling.

Unlike Power Five schools, finances for even the best-financed schools rarely offer the opportunity to "buy" lower Division I teams at-will. And unlike the lowest tier of Division I, MVC teams don't have the opportunity to play Power Five teams at-will either as most Power Five schools have been reluctant to schedule mid-major competition.

It's a situation that's only become worse as some Power Five conferences, such as the Big Ten, have gone to a 20-game conference schedule. Open slots on the schedule are drying up for mid-majors.

So what does the MVC have up its sleeve to help its membership in the future?The Tribune-Star spoke with MVC commissioner Doug Elgin on Thursday to see what the league has in mind.

First, there is no challenge series with any conference currently planned. Rather, the league is engaging with its peer conferences — the Atlantic 10, Conference USA, the West Coast Conference and the Mid-American Conference — to try to set up individual matchups that are mutually beneficial for both parties.

Elgin noted that process is on-going at present.

"We had the opportunity to engage Conference USA and the Atlantic 10 in some crossover series. It didn't involve all 10 of our teams, but we were successful in getting that together," Elgin said.

https://www.tribstar.com/sports/loca...d58925151.html

shocka43 04-14-2019 03:05 AM

Everyone talks about the "eye test" when it comes to bigger named programs on the schedule. The American Conference intrigues me more than the A10 does at this point simply due to the fact the A10 may never get back to what it was prior to the departures. I have said this for some time. Does anyone see the A10 getting 6 teams in anytime in the near future? Yes, that was a crazy year...but for a decent stretch there was never any talk about the A10 only getting one or two teams in.

I have always said that we need to "just win" in the A10. As others have stated, the A10 doesn't have that appeal anymore to many fans. Whether there is a new conference with new faces, an invite to a like and similar, or an invite to a bigger conference...something will have to happen or we will get left in behind again. Time will tell, but the A10 isn't all that appealing.

OSU Flyer 04-14-2019 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by shocka43 (Post 583947)
Everyone talks about the "eye test" when it comes to bigger named programs on the schedule. The American Conference intrigues me more than the A10 does at this point simply due to the fact the A10 may never get back to what it was prior to the departures. I have said this for some time. Does anyone see the A10 getting 6 teams in anytime in the near future? Yes, that was a crazy year...but for a decent stretch there was never any talk about the A10 only getting one or two teams in.

I have always said that we need to "just win" in the A10. As others have stated, the A10 doesn't have that appeal anymore to many fans. Whether there is a new conference with new faces, an invite to a like and similar, or an invite to a bigger conference...something will have to happen or we will get left in behind again. Time will tell, but the A10 isn't all that appealing.

I think this season is going to be a barometer for what the A10 can do in a post realignment world. Across the board there's a lot of returning talent even with the transfers out so far

Dayton, VCU, Davidson should all be tourney caliber teams. Maybe someone like the Bonnies or Rhode Island rises out of the rest. This should be a 3-4 bid league. Baring something unforeseen I don't think we'll ever see more than 4 bids again

Looking at numbers posted here the A10 has clearly eroded over the past 5 seasons by any computer metric

Lurking in the background is the increasing challenges of scheduling for teams outside the power conferences. I think UD, VCU, STL will be fine scheduling wise but I wonder how hard it's gonna be for a team like St. Bonaventure to put together an OOC worthy of an at large bid knowing they can't count on getting the quality wins in the A10 they could 5-10 years ago

OSU Flyer 04-14-2019 03:57 AM

The thing that's gonna kill the A10 and lower leagues of the world is the quadrant system right now.

For example Nebraska was 6-14 in B1G play but had a final NET of 48. Penn State was 14-18 overall but finished with a NET of 50.

Beat two of the bottom feeders of the B1G this year and that's Quad 1 win. Granted not all Quad 1 wins are the same but these power conference teams just have so many more chances to get the Quad 1/2 wins and that's what the committee seems to care about the last two seasons.

A B1G team this year probably averaged 10-15 chances for good wins while an A10 team is basically playing to avoid bad losses most of the season

MNFats 04-14-2019 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by OSU Flyer (Post 583946)
Rather, the league is engaging with its peer conferences — the Atlantic 10, Conference USA, the West Coast Conference and the Mid-American Conference — to try to set up individual matchups that are mutually beneficial for both parties.

And therein lies the problem. Between 20 game conference schedules, power conference challenges, and NET rankings - the big guys are making sure they are well positioned. The small to mid schools are sinking.

Playing a team from another sinking conference does not stop either from sinking. And none of the power 5 schools are going to put a hand in the water for you out of the goodness of their hearts. They'd rather watch you sink.

Dayton is in a little bit of a unique situation because we can still get into the premier tournaments in November. So we will get a couple chances a year there. Otherwise, the only way we stay afloat in the next 5 years, is to find some way to continue to get home/home series with the big guys (which will be difficult), or become a big guy ourselves.

If we ever get a shot at the BE or AAC I would hope we take it.

OSU Flyer 04-15-2019 01:19 AM

Coach Rick Stansbury’s squad will face 12 nonconference opponents next season. Ten of those slots have already been filled, athletic director Todd Stewart told the Daily News on Wednesday.

The Hilltoppers will also travel next year to Rhode Island for the first game of a two-year series. The Rams will return in 2020-21 to Diddle Arena.

WKU has never faced URI. The series is part of a scheduling agreement between Conference USA and the Atlantic 10 Conference, Stewart said.

https://www.bgdailynews.com/sports/w...01550cab6.html

second reference to this mysterious scheduling agreement

Alberto Strasse 04-15-2019 08:41 AM

I'll Say it Again
 
Think of the NCAA as a business. Their main product is football. Budgets are in the millions.
The institutions that pay the freight to participate will be given an advantage to chase the NCAA basketball pot of gold. Fairness has little or nothing to do with the process. It is a business that sustains itself.

OSU Flyer 05-02-2019 04:28 PM

@tsnmike
Pac-12 will join the move to 20 conference men's basketball games starting in 2020-21 season.


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