On paper I really like this schedule. At first glance it doesn't seem like any of the buy games are going to sub 300 RPI games like VMI was last year.
Akron and Ball St are two good buy games. BSU brings back a guard, Tayler Persons, who was second team all MAC and probably has a good shot at making first team this year along with some other guys who logged major minutes. Akron lost some folks in the coaching transition but got a good grad transfer at guard from Oregon St and have one of the better young guards in the MAC in Jimond Ivey. Both of them I would expect to be in the top half of their divisions in the MAC.
Georgia State is projected 138 in the top 144 preview and a top of the table team in the Sun Belt
http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/14857
Auburn hasn't been good since Bruce Pearl got there but there's a good chance the talent he's accumulated over the past couple years starts paying dividends.
Penn brings back 3 of it's top 4 scorers from a team that finished 4th in the Ivy including a freshman who was second team All-Ivy.
Wagner and Tennessee Tech on paper look better than most SWAC/MEAC teams
