Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Worst D-I Non-Conference Schedule?

I have been checking every D-I school that announces their non-conference schedule or completed schedule. I know all 340 D-I schools have yet to publish theirs, but I am going to go ahead and award the prize for the worst one right now.
Everyone else is entitled to their opinion on this.....but here is the non-conference schedule for Wyoming of the Mountain West Conference:


11/07/09 vs. Regis Univ. (exh.) - home
11/13/09 vs. South Dakota State - home
11/18/09 vs. Peru State (Neb.) - home (NAIA Division II)
11/21/09 vs. Boise State - home
11/25/09 at Denver (tournament)
11/27/09 vs. Monmouth Univ. (N.J.) -home
11/28/09 vs. Hampton Univ. (Va.) - home
11/29/09 vs. Pepperdine - home
12/05/09 vs. Loyola Marymount - home
12/12/09 vs. Northern Colorado - home
12/15/09 at Tennessee -away
12/20/09 vs. South Dakota - home
12/23/09 at Northern Iowa -away
12/30/09 vs. Akron - home
01/02/10 vs. Adams State (DII) - home
http://www.wyomingathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/080409aaa.html

Ok...sure, they go one the road and play one sacrifical game, a guarantee game in Knoxville, and the one at UNI isn't something they scheduled, it's part of the MWC/MVC Challenge.

but seriously....a middle of the season non-conference game vs. Adams State??
and an early season non-conference game (not an exhibition) against Peru State?
If anyone knows of a worse D-I non-conference schedule, let me know.



One of Tom Crean's twitters oddly appears to reveal who two of his starting players are going to be, and this is pretty early to be concluding that kind of decision!
....(speaking of one of the opponent players)"He can really shoot the 3.
Jeremiah (Rivers) wants to guard him but we may have to put Verdell
(Jones) on him. We may need to put JR (Rivers) on Terrico White."
http://twitter.com/TomCrean/status/3128884351



So is Illinois' plan to treat a good idea? They are planning to treat their incoming freshman recruits like SUPERSTARS!
http://pantagraph.com/sports/article_d149ae58-809b-11de-950b-001cc4c03286.html



Alex Dragicevic, a good shooting guard out of Glenbrook North HS, who was getting tons of offers, even though his early offers were all midmajors, has verballed to Notre Dame.

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