It would be nice to have another non-conference road game against a major conference team. I'm worried that this schedule will look like Cuse and a bunch of gloried home games. With Cuse being "down" this year the selection committee may not be impressed if somehow we end up on the bubble again. Makes Duke and NIT almost must wins.
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Taking their time on this one.
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Interesting: @ESPNCBB's "bracket reveal" posts for early season tournaments don't list NIT Season Tip-Off: http://buff.ly/1vaMqMj #sjubb
Rumble in the Garden @rumbleSBN · 1h
Interesting: @ESPNCBB's "bracket reveal" posts for early season tournaments don't list NIT Season Tip-Off: http://buff.ly/1vaMqMj #sjubb
Isn't late august when our full schedule is usually released? I haven't heard much about when it's getting released hopefully soon.
NIT Season Tip-off must still be in flux (ex. the WCC released it's schedule the other day. Gonzaga put it on their website, and said the full schedule would come out when completed).
Also, the Big East has always been the last conference to release it's schedule. Reason for that is teams like us, Georgetown, Marquette, Seton Hall, and Villanova play some or all of our home games, in NBA/NHL arenas. That makes the league beholden to those schedules, and the NBA did not release theirs until last week, because of free agency (that's about 2-3 weeks later then they normally do it).
Andy Katz talks about the NIT Season Tip-Off in his 3rd point here. Not much to say, other then the fact that the tournament schedule is still in flux. Not good:
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/100064/3-point-shot-final-four-sites
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/100064/3-point-shot-final-four-sites
ManhattAn1
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we play syracuse at 5:15 on Saturday, December 6th
Duke is on Sunday, Jan 25th now. No other events at MSG that day and no football could be late Sunday.
Duke is on Sunday, Jan 25th now. No other events at MSG that day and no football could be late Sunday.
redstorm89
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Probably a 1 or 4 pm game on cbs. I do not think it will be a late game.
ManhattAn1
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The game will be on Fox Sports 1 or Fox. Big East home game so fox has rights I believe and they would probably not give it up for CBS to televise.
We had two Sunday night games last year so it is a possibility.
We had two Sunday night games last year so it is a possibility.
@wildjays: NIT Tip-Off will have set semifinal matchups - Gonzaga vs. Georgia, Minnesota vs. St. John's - Andy Katz
The NIT Season Tip-Off will no longer be a bracketed event and instead will be a classic with set semifinal matchups at Madison Square Garden in New York -- pitting Gonzaga against Georgia and Minnesota versus St. John's -- after the NCAA could only get eight teams in the field instead of 16, a source told ESPN.
The Gonzaga-Georgia and Minnesota-St. John's semifinals will be played on Wednesday, Nov. 26, with a consolation and championship game on Friday, Nov. 28.
The NCAA-run event will add a new wrinkle due to the reduced field and feature a doubleheader at MSG on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) with the other four teams, as LIU plays Stony Brook and Saint Joseph's takes on Western Kentucky.
The NIT Season Tip-Off will have four games at campus sites prior to the eight teams' arrival in New York, with Saint Joseph's playing at Gonzaga, Western Kentucky at Minnesota, Stony Brook at Georgia and LIU at St. John's. Dates and times will be released by the NCAA later in the week.
The NCAA is scheduling a few Division II schools to get a fourth game in the event for some of the teams. The source said not all of the schools wanted a fourth game.
The NIT Season Tip-Off's previous format was for the four hosts to play two home games in a traditional format, with the winners earning a trip to MSG. The other tournaments that end at a neutral site in New York, Brooklyn, Las Vegas and Kansas City have set semifinal matchups, regardless of what happens in games on campus.
The NIT Season Tip-Off will continue in 2015, but more likely as an eight-team field, as a 16-team field is too hard to fill.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...t-season-tip-feature-eight-teams-set-matchups
The NIT Season Tip-Off will no longer be a bracketed event and instead will be a classic with set semifinal matchups at Madison Square Garden in New York -- pitting Gonzaga against Georgia and Minnesota versus St. John's -- after the NCAA could only get eight teams in the field instead of 16, a source told ESPN.
The Gonzaga-Georgia and Minnesota-St. John's semifinals will be played on Wednesday, Nov. 26, with a consolation and championship game on Friday, Nov. 28.
The NCAA-run event will add a new wrinkle due to the reduced field and feature a doubleheader at MSG on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) with the other four teams, as LIU plays Stony Brook and Saint Joseph's takes on Western Kentucky.
The NIT Season Tip-Off will have four games at campus sites prior to the eight teams' arrival in New York, with Saint Joseph's playing at Gonzaga, Western Kentucky at Minnesota, Stony Brook at Georgia and LIU at St. John's. Dates and times will be released by the NCAA later in the week.
The NCAA is scheduling a few Division II schools to get a fourth game in the event for some of the teams. The source said not all of the schools wanted a fourth game.
The NIT Season Tip-Off's previous format was for the four hosts to play two home games in a traditional format, with the winners earning a trip to MSG. The other tournaments that end at a neutral site in New York, Brooklyn, Las Vegas and Kansas City have set semifinal matchups, regardless of what happens in games on campus.
The NIT Season Tip-Off will continue in 2015, but more likely as an eight-team field, as a 16-team field is too hard to fill.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...t-season-tip-feature-eight-teams-set-matchups
This isn't terrible, I guess. Minnesota and Gonzaga were the teams we wanted to play against, so i guess it's good we don't have to fend off mid majors to play against them.
Bottom line is that if we play Minnesota and Gonzaga, then we play St. Mary's, Syracuse, and Duke, with 2 games against Nova, Xavier, and Georgetown, this schedule should be top 40 easily. We will have opportunities we just have to execute.
Bottom line is that if we play Minnesota and Gonzaga, then we play St. Mary's, Syracuse, and Duke, with 2 games against Nova, Xavier, and Georgetown, this schedule should be top 40 easily. We will have opportunities we just have to execute.
Sporting News picked Minnesota to finish 9th in 14-team Big Ten. That's not great, but it also means it wouldn't be a shock if they sunk into the top half of the league. Hopefully, Lavin and company will have a better idea of what they've got at the beginning of the year, then they did last year. We should win it, but it's by no means a lock. I think we are going to play the Bulldogs on Friday, either way
. Seriously though, it would be nice to play Gonzaga east of the Rocky Mountains, for once.I'm hoping we can sell-out CA for the St. Mary's game. That could wind up being a deciding game between two bubble teams (we obviously won't know at the time if it will be), and I think a nice, loud CA crowd could put us over the top.
Sporting News picked Minnesota to finish 9th in 14-team Big Ten. That's not great, but it also means it wouldn't be a shock if they sunk into the top half of the league. Hopefully, Lavin and company will have a better idea of what they've got at the beginning of the year, then they did last year. We should win it, but it's by no means a lock. I think we are going to play the Bulldogs on Friday, either way
I'm hoping we can sell-out CA for the St. Mary's game. That could wind up being a deciding game between two bubble teams (we obviously won't know at the time if it will be), and I think a nice, loud CA crowd could put us over the top.
I think Minnesota is a lot tougher than you or Sporting a News gives them credit for. It will be a very tough game. NIT Champs who are coached well and return some of their top scorers.
Sporting News picked Minnesota to finish 9th in 14-team Big Ten. That's not great, but it also means it wouldn't be a shock if they sunk into the top half of the league. Hopefully, Lavin and company will have a better idea of what they've got at the beginning of the year, then they did last year. We should win it, but it's by no means a lock. I think we are going to play the Bulldogs on Friday, either way
I'm hoping we can sell-out CA for the St. Mary's game. That could wind up being a deciding game between two bubble teams (we obviously won't know at the time if it will be), and I think a nice, loud CA crowd could put us over the top.
I think Minnesota is a lot tougher than you or Sporting a News gives them credit for. It will be a very tough game. NIT Champs who are coached well and return some of their top scorers.
Oh, I think it's going to be a very tough game, no question.
Sporting News picked Minnesota to finish 9th in 14-team Big Ten. That's not great, but it also means it wouldn't be a shock if they sunk into the top half of the league. Hopefully, Lavin and company will have a better idea of what they've got at the beginning of the year, then they did last year. We should win it, but it's by no means a lock. I think we are going to play the Bulldogs on Friday, either way
I'm hoping we can sell-out CA for the St. Mary's game. That could wind up being a deciding game between two bubble teams (we obviously won't know at the time if it will be), and I think a nice, loud CA crowd could put us over the top.
I think Minnesota is a lot tougher than you or Sporting a News gives them credit for. It will be a very tough game. NIT Champs who are coached well and return some of their top scorers.
Oh, I think it's going to be a very tough game, no question.
Whether I expect us to win or not is tough. I still have no idea what we are going to look like this year so I can't even say. But Minnesota is very similar to us in that they are returning their top scoring guards (Andre Hollins, Deandre Mathieu) but are a bit weak at the forward position. So it will be interesting.