Is there any reason to expect nothing worse than 1 loss in our non conference next year?
Wisconsin is really the only viable loss and even that one can be one if Taylor bolts.
The Paradise Jam is about as scrub a tourney ive seen.
So should we expect to roll into BE play with 1 or no losses next year?
Jesus man, the Big East Tournament starts tonight!
I agree on the surface. It's a pre-conference schedule like the one Syracuse played this year, in which the toughest team they faced was Michigan St., whose Pomeroy rating would land them between us and Seton Hall at 12th in this year's Big East. So a couple tough but winnable tests, albiet much easier than our brutal non-con slate this year. However, we will be facing a senior-laden Vandy team (granted at home) and the Wisconsin game is at the Kohl Center (Bo's Transylvanian house of horrors). The last time we had a non-con schedule like this (way back in 2009) we lost to Dayton and Tennessee with a senior-laden team of our own. So I'd say max 2 L's without completely freaking out, but it's set up pretty nicely to enter Big East play ranked and undefeated.
Quote from: Jamailman on March 08, 2011, 05:02:19 PM
I agree on the surface. It's a pre-conference schedule like the one Syracuse played this year, in which the toughest team they faced was Michigan St., whose Pomeroy rating would land them between us and Seton Hall at 12th in this year's Big East. So a couple tough but winnable tests, albiet much easier than our brutal non-con slate this year. However, we will be facing a senior-laden Vandy team (granted at home) and the Wisconsin game is at the Kohl Center (Bo's Transylvanian house of horrors). The last time we had a non-con schedule like this (way back in 2009) we lost to Dayton and Tennessee with a senior-laden team of our own. So I'd say max 2 L's without completely freaking out, but it's set up pretty nicely to enter Big East play ranked and undefeated.
Exactly. I was just bored and looking since we dont play til 8 tonight and I saw that next year we have a pretty easy scedule. We can def win the Wisco game but most likely wont. Vandy beat us by 1 this year at their place and will be more experienced but with us at home and a solid chance Jenkins may be gone we should be able to win that. Nothing else is daunting at all. Should be nice going into conference play knowing that an 11-7 finish would have us still at single digit losses.
Has the team taken their summer trip yet since Buzz was hired? I think with the extra two weeks of practice next summer, if Buzz elects on some sort of summer tour/trip, we should do fairly well.