2020 Schedule news

[JoeSmith1721]

According to Rothstein, Marquette will be hosting Oklahoma St next year in the Big East / Big 12 Battle.

[drewm88]

News has been out for almost 10 minutes. Where's Brew or TAMU to tell me what to think about OK St.?

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

So who all do we have on the schedule for next year?

UCLA
Rhode Island
Minnesota/UCF
OK State
Wisconsin
Potential BE/B10 matchup
Lehigh
Likely one of Albany, LIU-Brooklyn or Quinnipiac (Tournamnent home game)

Who am I missing that has already been decided?  Should be three other games. 

[brewcity77]

News has been out for almost 10 minutes. Where's Brew or TAMU to tell me what to think about OK St.?

LOL saw this right before making some curbside errand runs.

At a glance, I think Torvik having them at 32 is too high. They lose 4 seniors that started significant games. They do have two starters returning in Likekele and Anei, but neither are particularly high efficiency guys. Cade Cunningham is awesome & gives them a massive talent boost, but this seems like a team that will take time to put it together. That was also the case last year when they started 0-6 in league but finished winning 6 of their last 8 (7-11 overall).

Boynton's teams have been generally mediocre. I feel like average coaches adding a great talent rarely ends in great success. Romar with Fultz, Jones with Simmons, Rice with Bennett, etc. Could maybe throw Crean & Edwards in too.

This is taking a 5 minute glance, but my immediate thought is bubble team that will hope to be much better in February than they are before the New Year.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

News has been out for almost 10 minutes. Where's Brew or TAMU to tell me what to think about OK St.?

Personally think they will end up looking like LSU did with Ben Simmons. A mess surrounding a future NBA player.

[bilsu]

I have no facts or inside information to verify or support this... but wouldn't there be a scenario where the non-conf portion of the schedule is just cancelled?  Many of the teams in buy games fly commercial and if travel is not sorted out by then I could see some serious difficulties. 

The "haves" (charter flights, full time team doctors, etc) would certainly have an even greater advantage over the "have not's to the point where the have not's might just decide to stay home.

Only a theory...



There's a point where this just isn't logical.

I have somewhat of the opposite theory. I doubt anyone would like this theory, but I think the NCAA should cancel the conference season. Limit all schedules with home and homes to teams within your designated area made up of 15 teams. Assuming a 30 game schedule, MU could have a home and home with 15 of these 17 teams: Wisconsin UW Green Bay, Milwaukee, Minnesota, DePaul, Illinois, Northwestern, Chicago St., Northern Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Illinois Chicago, Illinois St, Western Illinois, Loyola Drake, Iowa St. Iowa, Northern Iowa. It would be like a one season conference. Every game would be within a bus ride and many could be played without having to stay in a hotel. This would cut down on costs. Possibly less risk of getting Covid. You would not pay schools for coming to your place and vice versa.

Then you could , if the virus is not an issue, have the normal conference tournaments. By this I mean MU would play in the Big East tournament and Wisconsin would play in the Big Ten tournament. The seeding would be based on the power rankings of each team.

[We R Final Four]

F Loyola Drake. Hate those guys.

[Jables1604]

F Loyola Drake. Hate those guys.

Canadian who raps in Latin?

[muguru]

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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Source: The NCAA has approved a 28-game schedule with a 3-game MTE and a 29-game schedule with a 2-game MTE.

Significant news in the college basketball scheduling world.

[brewcity77]

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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Source: The NCAA has approved a 28-game schedule with a 3-game MTE and a 29-game schedule with a 2-game MTE.

Significant news in the college basketball scheduling world.

Oh wow. That is big. Should never have to worry about a 30-game season again.

[WhiteTrash]

Why go out to NYC? They should just play at the Rec Center

I heard men's varsity basketball was banned from the Rec Center. I could be wrong.

[Galway Eagle]

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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Source: The NCAA has approved a 28-game schedule with a 3-game MTE and a 29-game schedule with a 2-game MTE.

Significant news in the college basketball scheduling world.

MTE?

[The Sultan]

MTE?

Multiple Team Event.  The early season tournaments.

[Galway Eagle]

Multiple Team Event.  The early season tournaments.

Thanks

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Good, hopefully that means Marquette will actually play a full schedule for the first time in a while.

[brewcity77]

Good, hopefully that means Marquette will actually play a full schedule for the first time in a while.

This is huge for Marquette. Between Fiserv scheduling & MTEs not offering campus games, getting to 31 has been a struggle the past 5 years. They had to get a waiver in 2018-19 to play the 31st game and Howard's career was effectively cut an additional 3 games short because of 30-game schedules in 3/4 years.

We have some fairly uncommon challenges and this will make scheduling much easier for Broeker and company.

[MU82]

Is this new shorter schedule a 1-season concession to the coronavirus, or is it permanent?

[BM1090]

Is this new shorter schedule a 1-season concession to the coronavirus, or is it permanent?

I don't believe it's shorter. It just enables every team to get 31 games if they want.

[MU82]

I don't believe it's shorter. It just enables every team to get 31 games if they want.

Ah ... I see that now ... not sure why I read it differently before. Thanks for the info.

[brewcity77]

Is this new shorter schedule a 1-season concession to the coronavirus, or is it permanent?

As noted, same length. I go into a little more detail here: https://twitter.com/brewcity1977/status/1253880472528134144?s=21

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

This is huge for Marquette. Between Fiserv scheduling & MTEs not offering campus games, getting to 31 has been a struggle the past 5 years. They had to get a waiver in 2018-19 to play the 31st game and Howard's career was effectively cut an additional 3 games short because of 30-game schedules in 3/4 years.

We have some fairly uncommon challenges and this will make scheduling much easier for Broeker and company.

Glad to hear it. Burning noncon games (even if it was because the Nov tourney didn't give a campus game) has been an annoyance of mine in recent years. Hope Broeker is now able to get 31 regular season games on the schedule annually moving forward.

[BossplayaOtto]

Glad to hear it. Burning noncon games (even if it was because the Nov tourney didn't give a campus game) has been an annoyance of mine in recent years. Hope Broeker is now able to get 31 regular season games on the schedule annually moving forward.

This, Exactly. I've been super annoyed about this as well, but I guess I didn't fully understand why we only scheduled 30. Thanks Brew for the tweets outlining and clarifying everything.

[muguru]

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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Source: Marquette will host Albany as part of its 20-21 non-conference schedule.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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Source: Marquette will host Albany as part of its 20-21 non-conference schedule.

Bart Torvik puts them at 238 next season. Not bad,  not stellar buy game

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Bart Torvik puts them at 238 next season. Not bad,  not stellar buy game

Probably on campus game for our tourney. Albany (and Lehigh) we're both on the list of 4 campus game teams.