Early Non-Con schedule

[bradley center bat]

Also, weren't they suppose to renew the series with UW-Milwaukee after taking last season off.  

Nothing was ever signed to play the Milwaukee Panthers.

[Coleman]

Does that really matter to you?

I'm not losing sleep over it, but it seemed strange.

[bradley center bat]

I'm not losing sleep over it, but it seemed strange.

Creighton & MU was in the field before the both became Big East member. Maybe MU couldn't pass up the H/H with ASU.

Check out Xavier's schedule, they have the same thing. Wake and Tennessee come to Xavier and all three are in a tourney together.

[Coleman]

Creighton & MU was in the field before the both became Big East member. Maybe MU couldn't pass up the H/H with ASU.

Check out Xavier's schedule, they have the same thing. Wake and Tennessee come to Xavier and all three are in a tourney together.

I get Creighton. ASU seemed strange. I'd rather have a Big 10 or ACC opponent. But whatever. No big deal.

[MU82]

My only disappointment is that we're not playing Notre Dame. Maybe all of the major changes for both schools in a relatively short space of time made it too hard to get it done for next season, but I hope that in the future we can initiate a H&H with ND.

And, for that matter, I hope we can play Louisville, Syracuse and any other "old" Big East rival every year or two.

I know it's a new era, but that doesn't mean we can't bring along some of the best from the past.

[Jay Bee]

The issue with the schedule is that there are some teams that may have very poor W-L records, bringing down MU's RPI.

Nonetheless... just win, baby.

[warriorchick]

My only disappointment is that we're not playing Notre Dame. Maybe all of the major changes for both schools in a relatively short space of time made it too hard to get it done for next season, but I hope that in the future we can initiate a H&H with ND.

And, for that matter, I hope we can play Louisville, Syracuse and any other "old" Big East rival every year or two.

I know it's a new era, but that doesn't mean we can't bring along some of the best from the past.

It didn't get done because Mike Brey didn't want it to get done.

[dgies9156]

It didn't get done because Mike Brey didn't want it to get done.

Brey is no idiot. He figures to get his clock cleaned many, many times in the ACC this winter.

Why would he want to come to Milwaukee or have us come to him and have his head amputated twice in the next two years.

[GooooMarquette]

My only disappointment is that we're not playing Notre Dame. Maybe all of the major changes for both schools in a relatively short space of time made it too hard to get it done for next season, but I hope that in the future we can initiate a H&H with ND.

And, for that matter, I hope we can play Louisville, Syracuse and any other "old" Big East rival every year or two.

I know it's a new era, but that doesn't mean we can't bring along some of the best from the past.

I certainly hope we can get ND and/or UL back on the schedule sometime soon.  Big-name programs with strong followings, long-term rivalries. Both seem like no-brainers.

Cuse would be great too, but we were in the conference with them for such a short time that it'd be hard to say we developed a significant rivalry.  I won't hold my breath....

[ResidentBrown]

Ideally, we would play Wisconsin every year, Notre Dame every year, Louisville semi-yearly, Cincinnati once every few years, and then some of our other past Big East foes such as Pitt, 'Cuse, or UCONN once in a while.

I would also like to see us fill our "gimme" games with teams that are in the 100-200 RPI range. Look at what Minnesota accomplished last year in the RPI by just having an OOC schedule loaded with 80-150 RPI teams. Even when they were stinking it up in the Big Ten, they still maintained a top 25 RPI. We could play some teams that that we have a history with, and who usually hang around in the 100-200 RPI range, such as Evansville, Bradley, Drake, UWGB, Loyola (IL), Detroit, Valparaiso.

I can't stand seeing us play our throw-away games against teams like Grambling, Samford or Houston Baptist. Who are these schools? Why are we playing po-dunk sub-250 RPI schools from completely different regions of the country? I'd much rather try and play some teams that we have a history of playing, and who have a decent enough RPI, but should still be a W on our schedule.

[MU82]

Brey is no idiot. He figures to get his clock cleaned many, many times in the ACC this winter.

Why would he want to come to Milwaukee or have us come to him and have his head amputated twice in the next two years.

Counting ND's clock-cleaning of us in last year's Big East tournament, we were only 7-6 against ND in the BE era.

[Abode4life]

Ideally, we would play Wisconsin every year, Notre Dame every year, Louisville semi-yearly, Cincinnati once every few years, and then some of our other past Big East foes such as Pitt, 'Cuse, or UCONN once in a while.

I would also like to see us fill our "gimme" games with teams that are in the 100-200 RPI range. Look at what Minnesota accomplished last year in the RPI by just having an OOC schedule loaded with 80-150 RPI teams. Even when they were stinking it up in the Big Ten, they still maintained a top 25 RPI. We could play some teams that that we have a history with, and who usually hang around in the 100-200 RPI range, such as Evansville, Bradley, Drake, UWGB, Loyola (IL), Detroit, Valparaiso.

I can't stand seeing us play our throw-away games against teams like Grambling, Samford or Houston Baptist. Who are these schools? Why are we playing po-dunk sub-250 RPI schools from completely different regions of the country? I'd much rather try and play some teams that we have a history of playing, and who have a decent enough RPI, but should still be a W on our schedule.

The problem with previous years schedules at least is a lot of times we schedule teams who are in the mid 100s the year we schedule them, and then they become bad.  I don't know when exactly we scheduled the teams, but its also a two way street.  The teams we may want to schedule may not want to come here depending lots of reasons (get locations where their players' families can come, other history, bigger payout, etc).  And once you move up to more well known teams, they are more likely to want you to come there at least once.  We need a certain number of home games for budgetary reasons.

Right now we have at least five decent teams based on Ken Pom last year (Ohio State 6, Arizona State 69, Wisconsin 12, New Mexico 25, Southern 151, and IUPUI 258 but in the upper 100s previous 2 years) and four very bad teams.  This doesn't include the tournament we are in.  Thats not ideal, but its not that bad either.

[Golden Avalanche]

It didn't get done because Mike Brey didn't want it to get done.

Where was Brey quoted saying he wouldn't play Marquette?

[warriorchick]

Where was Brey quoted saying he wouldn't play Marquette?

Nowhere, as far as I know.  But I got it straight from the mouth of a person who would be considered an extremely reliable source in matters of MUBB scheduling.

[Golden Avalanche]

Nowhere, as far as I know.  But I got it straight from the mouth of a person who would be considered an extremely reliable source in matters of MUBB scheduling.

Here, here to hearsay.

[We R Final Four]

Does anyone know this year's home game for which the season ticket holders get first crack at other tickets?  Last year I believe it was Wisconsin.

Season ticket holders have first dibs to additional tickets to all games.  There is usually a 10 ticket max for the UW game initially. I would bet it will be too early in the season to limit the sales of tOSU tickets. Early Nov. is the middle of the CFB season and most people besides us could care less of who is playing at the BC on a Sat afternoon.

[Mr. Nielsen]

Ohio State could be a night.

[bobnoxious]

Ohio State should be a night.

[GGGG]

Here, here to hearsay.

I heard something similar.

[warriorchick]

Here, here to hearsay.

It wasn't hearsay.

[4everwarriors]

Babe, you tight with Broecker?

[seakm4]

UW game is the 7th.  Pearl Harbor Day. 

We'll be facing our foes from across that big body of water between us.  This time it's the Rock river.

[keefe]

Nowhere, as far as I know.  But I got it straight from the mouth of a person who would be considered an extremely reliable source in matters of MUBB scheduling.

Chico should learn to be more circumspect...

[brewcity77]

Too many sub-250 teams for my liking. A lot has to break right for this schedule not to end up one covered with almost as many negatives as it has positives. If we lose 3 or more of our big games, our NC season could look very disappointing come January. Needed more 100-200 teams than sub-250s.

[Benny B]

I heard something similar.

As did I... but my intel came from ND's camp.