2017-2018 Season

May as well schedule all games against BE caliber teams from football conferences. Playing teams from other conferences present us with no gain and too much to lose. I realize it will never happen.
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No team would ever do that. Too much risk and not enough chances for wins.
 
Three out of conference losses would be fine
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Hoping they beat Mizzou, they'll probably lose to WVU.
They'll lose to Duke most likely.

They'll probaby have another loss some where.

I hope 10-3 at the worst.

11-7 (I'm hoping for) in conf puts them at 21-10, maybe another 2 wins in the conf tourny.
I'd say 23 wins is enough to make the ncaa.

9-4 ooc would be ok too I guess, can't go 8-5.
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10-3 should be the expectation, 9-4 a worst case scenario. I'll say West Virginia, Duke and ASU will be the losses, and the St. Joe's game is probably the other one that could go either way.
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Don't sleep On Grand Canyon, their fans are crazy and it'll be a virtual home game for them. Plus add in we'll be travelling across three time zones with a 5-6 hour flight = classic trap game.
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Good point. Could be this year's Bonaventure/Northeastern/take your pick of every other loss over the years that looked like a W on paper.
 
That said Martin had had loaded teams before that failed to develop. Seemed to me that Cal was poised to be an early 90s UNLV like team but just never did it. Now they are poised to go back into obscurity.
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I'm in the Bay Area, so I've had the chance to listen to longer interviews with him, and they were fantastic. You could tell that it easily translates into being a great recruiter. Not so hot of a bench coach, though. But not horrible, so I think whatever school he coaches at will be a threat in the tournament if they catch fire. But I'd also think long and hard about taking a mid-major with multiple three-point shooters over his teams in an upset.
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Martin played for Gene Keady at Purdue. Keady also gave a start to another coach who fits the same description of great recruiter, average on the bench. Sound familiar?
 
May as well schedule all games against BE caliber teams from football conferences. Playing teams from other conferences present us with no gain and too much to lose. I realize it will never happen.
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No team would ever do that. Too much risk and not enough chances for wins.
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Except Uconn's "football conference"...
 


Jon Rothstein‏Verified account @JonRothstein

St. John's was 8-3 last season in games where Marcus Lovett took less than 10 shots. Red Storm will be better with balanced attack. #SJUBB
 
45 Days until Midnight Madness (October 14, 2017)
 
If on the SJU team this year, I wouldn't get happy. Even if we won the pre season tourny, right after beating wvu? I'm walking to the locker room with my mind on the next game.

I wouldn't fault anyone who did since that's an accomplishment. Just saying how my mentality would be with the Wilson bs not being the only crap we got dealt but just the latest.

This year I'd...

 
It's sort of strange not seeing Syracuse on the non-conference schedule. Being that I live in the Mohawk Valley, with tons of SU (you can't spell sucks without SU) fans, I still enjoy watching highlights 93-60 butt kicking. I just went to a SU fan site and one bozo claimed that he was sick of seeing SU lose to a minor league team. After 3 straight wins over those clowns, by a total point spread of 57 points (12, 12, 33), they look like the minor league team.

After the most humiliating loss in the history of the Carrier Dome, one of the Syracuse paper's sportswriters stated that Syracuse should stop playing their old Big East rivals. This year they have both Georgetown and Connecticut on their schedule. Apparently, no one read that article. St. John's also snapped SU's 55 game non-conference home winning streak, during the 2014-2015 season. They're the minor league team in the last 3 match-ups.
 
It's sort of strange not seeing Syracuse on the non-conference schedule. Being that I live in the Mohawk Valley, with tons of SU (you can't spell sucks without SU) fans, I still enjoy watching highlights 93-60 butt kicking. I just went to a SU fan site and one bozo claimed that he was sick of seeing SU lose to a minor league team. After 3 straight wins over those clowns, by a total point spread of 57 points (12, 12, 33), they look like the minor league team.

After the most humiliating loss in the history of the Carrier Dome, one of the Syracuse paper's sportswriters stated that Syracuse should stop playing their old Big East rivals. This year they have both Georgetown and Connecticut on their schedule. Apparently, no one read that article. St. John's also snapped SU's 55 game non-conference home winning streak, during the 2014-2015 season. They're the minor league team in the last 3 match-ups.
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Syracuse was beaten last year by Georgetown, UCONN, St. John's, BC, and Pitt. All of them, old Big East teams that finished with losing records overall.

Yet, those fools on ESPN still believed that they belonged in the NCAA Tournament, even after going one and done in the ACC Tournament against a Miami team (old Big East) that was good, but far from great.
 
For the record, they've taken the schedule down now, for the time being.

Zach B. was posting the updates to twitter, as well, so that probably tipped someone off that the schedule was out early.
 
From Zach Braziller

St. John's has just three Big East games at MSG: Georgetown, Villanova, Seton Hall. #sjubb

Only 5 MSG games this year? I would have thought this was the year we start putting more back in schedule. We can barely use the Garden as a recruiting chip anymore.
 
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