stever20 wrote:I can't give St John's as much crap about their schedule as before. They did try this year.
Got Nebraska in Gavitt. not great, but not awful.
Got Temple and potentially Syracuse in exempt tournament. ok
Iowa St in Big 12 games. good
Florida St near Miami. looked good but they've gone into the tank.
Yeah they have 6 pretty bad games. But lots of teams have at least 4 or 5 bad games. Maybe could have had 1 more decent opponent instead of a dreg but it's defensible.
adoraz wrote:stever20 wrote:I can't give St John's as much crap about their schedule as before. They did try this year.
Got Nebraska in Gavitt. not great, but not awful.
Got Temple and potentially Syracuse in exempt tournament. ok
Iowa St in Big 12 games. good
Florida St near Miami. looked good but they've gone into the tank.
Yeah they have 6 pretty bad games. But lots of teams have at least 4 or 5 bad games. Maybe could have had 1 more decent opponent instead of a dreg but it's defensible.
IMO it was a bad schedule from the start, and now it's a very bad schedule.
*Majority of games (6/11) against KenPom teams ranked: 264, 293, 301, 311, 338, 341. These numbers are from 2 days ago, but I doubt they've changed much.
*Only 1 road game
*Only 1 true neutral games (Florida St). Since our 2 Barclays games are local, I don't think we get full NET credit for them being neutral. I could be wrong about that, though.
*0 games against top 50 KenPom teams
Yes some teams such as Florida St and Syracuse (if we even play them) are doing worse than expected, but it was known pre-season this was a poor schedule (especially with all the cupcakes and lack of travel) and now it's looking like one of the worst for any Power team.
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xupuck10 wrote:I posted this over on Xavierhoops, but figured I'd bring it here to see the thoughts...
Saw this news today: St. Thomas Announces Record-Breaking, $75 Million Gift for Multiuse Arena. St. Thomas has made a lot of movement in their athletics program over the past five years, including an unprecedented move from DIII to DI.
I know this is probably premature, but I think they could be a great 5-10 year strategic plan to move to the Big East. They bring the Minneapolis tv market (#14 nationwide - bigger than Cincinnati, Indy, Milwaukee - and St. Louis since SLU has always been mentioned), a like-minded private Catholic university now showing a significant investment in athletics. Some of their sports are starting to succeed, and if they can continue to grow, I think it could be worth some consideration.
xupuck10 wrote:I posted this over on Xavierhoops, but figured I'd bring it here to see the thoughts...
Saw this news today: St. Thomas Announces Record-Breaking, $75 Million Gift for Multiuse Arena. St. Thomas has made a lot of movement in their athletics program over the past five years, including an unprecedented move from DIII to DI.
I know this is probably premature, but I think they could be a great 5-10 year strategic plan to move to the Big East. They bring the Minneapolis tv market (#14 nationwide - bigger than Cincinnati, Indy, Milwaukee - and St. Louis since SLU has always been mentioned), a like-minded private Catholic university now showing a significant investment in athletics. Some of their sports are starting to succeed, and if they can continue to grow, I think it could be worth some consideration.
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