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wildjays wrote:Zips Nation is reporting that the Jays are hosting Akron on Dec. 17th

http://zipsnation.org/forums/topic/3573 ... le/?page=5

And if you didn't see this before, Arizona St. Had a release updating things on their non-conference schedule and will host Creighton on Dec. 20th.

Dang, Arizona State on a Tuesday, was hopinghoping to go to that game, not sure now....

Akron is a good non-conference home game. I like it. A team we should beat but won't be a walk in the park.

section202jay wrote:Akron is a good non-conference home game. I like it. A team we should beat but won't be a walk in the park.

Turns out there is some conflicting information about the Akron game now. Marshall put out a release that they just have a new four-year series with Akron that starts this year on December 17th at Akron. Game might not be on CU schedule now

wildjays wrote:

section202jay wrote:Akron is a good non-conference home game. I like it. A team we should beat but won't be a walk in the park.

Turns out there is some conflicting information about the Akron game now. Marshall put out a release that they just have a new four-year series with Akron that starts this year on December 17th at Akron. Game might not be on CU schedule now

Aren't they in the same conference?

Or are we talking about..... you know..... that one guy...?

Non-conference schedule being announced currently. I like the games thus far, especially the back to back games against the two best MAC teams, which should be challenging but solid RPI wins. Game vs UNL is on December 7. We play Loyola of Maryland also.

Interesting to note that we play Oral Roberts on Dec. 17. We could also meet them a couple weeks prior to that in the Virgin Islands.

We went the D2 route and scheduled Truman State in the middle of January. Glad to see us do this instead of playing another Longwood type team.

Looking at our schedule, every single game is winnable. Wisconsin is going to be a top 15 team, but we're at home and we're gonna be pretty damn good as well. NC ST scares me a bit, they'll be super talented. I could see us coming out of the non-con with no more than 2 losses.

The schedule is somewhat underwhelming for a potential top 25 team. Wish we could have challenged ourselves a little more instead of games with Truman State and one of the three of Oral Roberts, Buffalo, and Akron. Two of those games are fine, but I feel like if we underperform in this slate, we will be squarely on the bubble come tournament time if we suffer some bad losses during the year.

we will be squarely on the bubble come tournament time if we suffer some bad losses during the year

says every other team

It is a little underwhelming. But it's better than last year's noncon HOME schedule. However, we are missing a challenging road game. The ASU game is one we have to win. Just not that top 25 road game.

I don't think you can ever satisfy everyone with the schedule. We'd have to schedule KU, Duke and Arizona for home games in order to please some folks.