Looks like High Point is getting scheduled at a neutral site
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Great matchup-High Point!
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I am not sure I understand the comment about how the MAC schedule impacts our ability to get a power buy game
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i think it’s just limiting and leaves fewer available dates that restrict flexibility
Why is absurd? If anything, it’s how a conference schedule should be set up for basketball. You play every team twice, all schedules are even.
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It is absurd in that the only way a MAC can get beyond a 1 bid league today.is to get non conf wins vs. strong out of conference teams. Playing more conference games might make sense if there is no conf tournament as it guarantees that one bid is our best. Otherwise it is absurd considering current landscape of college BB.
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The only MAC team to get an at large in 25 years did it by playing the easiest, most cupcake ooc schedule possible, including 3 NAIA games. Not by playing a hard schedule.
There is zero evidence in modern college basketball of a MAC team doing it by playing a tough schedule. And many teams have tried.
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The MAC will never be a true multibid league. It’s silly to design scheduling around a once in 30-40 year chance.
22 games gives everyone another “free” home game. And relieves the stress on filling 2 game slots, for basically no cost.
The extra conference games slot into us buying a team like Mercyhurst or going to Air Force. It’s not taking the slot of a buy game at a power school or a game at a top mid major.
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MAC added 4 games, but NCAA added an extra game. So effectively 3 less OOC games to play with.
Get rid of the 3 non D1 games and it’s wash. However, that’s easier said than done, as the non D1 games are usually played on weird dates around holidays to plug a gap in the schedule.
Also, we are actually playing an MTE, which is an extra game or two compared to last year.
Trying is one thing.
Winning is another.
However, you don’t have a chance of winning unless you play the games that the selection committee values.
But we just were multi bid.
The MAC sans the bums called NIU is a pretty great hoops league. I think we are within striking distance of 2 bids in a lot of years. Valley is down and as long as the top 6 schools keep investing it’s a decent league. I’d like us to leave it for other reasons, but still.
Miami, UMass, Akron, BG, UT, OU have respectable offerings IMO
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Another one, fairly all encompassing. Thought the interviewers did a great job.