The only game NU knows against AEast so far is Stony Brook. The Vermont contract is done, Maine was a buy game. We will play @bu, UAB and CCSU at home.
That's good for you because losing Smith & Lee you don't want none next year
Hopefully the series can be renewed the year after. Glad we did a recent home and home, think both games were good games and certainly each other benefited RPI-wise.
So, Hartford is going to open the season with a gimme...LOL. Wow, most likely opening up the year and watching the Cards drop down the National Championship banner in the KFC Yum Center.
I'm sure Maine will be playing UM-Machias or Husson College this year...maybe even throw in a Colby College or Bowdoin. Hopefully those games will be played in the new Cross Ins Center in Bangor.
I think I recall on Villani's radio show someone said we weren't going to be playing BU next season but would begin a series the following season- not sure if that's accurate or not.
Guaranteed games
vs Siena, @ Duke, @ Dartmouth, vs Qpac
Harvard, Yale, Towson, NU, FDU series are all even. We may have a contract running a couple more years with any of them but the home and home series are even right now. We will prolly play at Canisius (bracket buster return game) this year since I'm sure we have trouble getting home games with are senior class. We have played Yale 6 straight years. We are going to play Qpac for the 8 straight year.
Vermont will be travelling to Rhode Island again this year. They will play at Bryant. According to today's Providence Journal, the Bryant Bulldogs will host Lehigh, Vermont, and N Dakota State and play at Gonzaga, Ohio State, and Notre Dame. Bryant just extended Coach Tim O'Shea an additional four years (he already had three years left on the original contract) if he meets certain benchmarks. O'Shea joins two other RI D1 coaches, Cooley at PC and Hurley at URI, that also got extensions this past week.
I wonder if the Stony Brook faithful are worried....
From HoopDirt:
• Multiple sources have reported that Mt. Ida College (MA) is down to four finalists. The final group will finish interviews this week, and a new coach could be named as early as next week. I’ve also heard that the job is moving from part-time to full-time
Mount Ida with a Full Time coach could be very dangerous to SBU
Per Chris Villani, we have two more games remaining with Harvard, which for some reason the series went Home, Away, Away, Home. Anyways, that's better for me personally and will be a huge game as Harvard will be a Top 25 team next year.
So far:
Home:
Quinnipiac
Siena
Away:
Duke
Harvard
Bryant
Dartmouth
Villani also said we're working on getting an "A-10" caliber home game. Could it be GW maybe? I'd like our chances pretty well in that game.
Boy, I doubt it. There are still a few players on the roster that he recruited right? Usually coaches won't go play their former teams until everyone has graduated but maybe he is different.
Pretty big difference between Lowell & Vermont in terms of quality of team, recruiting ground, etc. Teams want to schedule road games at winnable places as that is good for the RPI (winning road games gets weighted more heavily).
Lonergan lost some talent from last year's roster. Pellom and Kromah both decided not to come back. He lost a good recruit who decommited. He has a nice starting five but the depth is going to be a challenge for GW. He has two recruits coming but neither seem to be game changers.
Well, if Duquesne is expected to be as good as they were last year (Terrible) then that would explain trying to play as many AE schools as possible. Nothing more than that.
Did you look at the rest of that schedule? What an embarrassingly weak schedule for an A10 school.
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