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America East 2019-20 OOC Schedules

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#3 · (Edited)
Any AE teams interested in visiting URI? Rhode Island will probably be looking for a buy opponent at home. Rhody already has seven OOC games away from Kingston and needs to secure one more home opponent.

URI 2019-2020 Known OOC Schedule (13 games allowed)
Home (6)
Alabama
Providence
Western Kentucky
Jamaica Classic Game #1 TBD
Jamaica Classic Game #2 TBD
TBD

Away (5)
Maryland
West Virginia
Florida Gulf Coast
Brown
Middle Tennessee State

Neutral Site - Montego Bay, Jamaica (2)
Jamaica Classic Game #3
Jamaica Classic Game #4

The two neutral site games in Jamaica will come from a pool of three opponents that already includes LSU and Utah State

OOC League breakdown for known possible URI opponents
Big Ten (@ Maryland)
Big 12 (@ WVU)
SEC (Alabama and possibly vs LSU)
Big East (PC)
MWC (possibly vs Utah St)
CUSA (Western Kentucky and @ MTSU)
Ivy (@ Brown)
ASUN (@ FGCU)
 
#4 ·
Not sure about Maine's schedule, but I would be more than happy to serve as a team liaison (for any team really) to the Jamaica Classic.

* Edit - By the way, that is a really nice home schedule thus far for the Rams.
 
#5 ·
Here's what's known for UVM's OOC at this moment:

Home:
Lipscomb
George Washington
Towson
BU

Away:
Yale
Harvard
Dartmouth
Northeastern
Bucknell
St Bonaventure
St Johns (Mohegan Sun Classic)
Virginia (Mohegan Sun Classic)
One more to schedule; Becker has indicated he hopes to schedule a high-major

Neutral:
Two games vs midmajors at Mohegan Sun

UVM is in stuck in this situation where the home-and-home series are always lopsided such that this year they'll mostly be away after having a lot of great home games last year. Next year will likely be the opposite with a ton of home games again and lots of scheduling openings as Lipscomb, Towson and GWU were only 2-year contracts while Bucknell and Bonaventure were 3-year contracts ending this season. They could always be extended though.

Personally I'd love to see a home-and-home with a high-major like Syracuse or (more likely) UConn as the new arena is still on pace to open by 2020.
 
#6 ·
Personally I'd love to see a home-and-home with a high-major like Syracuse or (more likely) UConn as the new arena is still on pace to open by 2020.
I'd like to see that, but I'll be honest: I think the only way to get a Power 5 team to Burlington, even with the new arena, is to start sucking***. Not that there aren't exceptions, but unless it's a program highly confident in its abilities (i.e. not a rebuilding UConn or perpetually mediocre BC), to quote Ernie Johnson, "They don't want that smoke, young fella."

(***the other option is Becker somehow goes from UVM to a P5 job, and we put a home game in as part of his buyout.)
 
#12 ·
BU hosted Michigan when it opened Agganis Arena, but that’s BU and Boston obviously isn’t Burlington.

Chambers and Pikiell won’t bring their schools to Burlington lol I’m sure they don’t have an affinity for UVM and it’s a lose-lose situation for them.

UVM has been pretty good at getting A10 teams to Patrick- St. Joe’s, St. Bonaventure, and GW upcoming although that’s likely to be a one-time deal given MoJo is no longer coaching and obviously the architect of that. What other AE schools have been able to get home games with A10 schools recently?
 
#13 ·
You say "Boston obviously isn't Burlington" but I wonder how accurate that hot take is in these circumstances.

What was the attendance of that game? Over the last couple of years UVM's attendance has literally been 3x that of BU's.

Plenty of A10 schools visit AE schools. If Fordham's willing to come up to Orono I think UVM should be able to schedule a home-and-home with a team as stroried as Davidson. Not saying that's likely to happen, but just that it's in the realm of possibility.

Was URI hosting Stony Brook last year a home-and-home or a buy game?

Either way I'm not terribly enamored with more A10 or MAC home-and-homes. I'd like to see a high major; ideally 'Cuse but I won't complain about PC or BC either (and I will go out on a limb and say getting BC up to the new Arena is very realistic).
 
#17 ·
Every P5 team only travels via charter (or bus if close) so I don't see how the airport reason has any validity.

The point is no one really cares about BU basketball. Not folks in Boston, not fans of a P5 team. They could come off a 30-win season and they still won't be able to average more than 1,000 in attendance.

It's also worth noting that BU has the *highest enrollment* of ALL New England colleges (34,000); more than UConn, more than UMass-Amherst, more than any other school in New England. Yet they still can't get 3% of those students to go to a single basketball game.

What value does a P5 team find going to a school like that? If they wanted an easy win in Boston they'd go to BC.
 
#19 · (Edited)
I don't think the point is to talk about BU's basketball attendance problems, which is and has always been poor; BU actually no longer plays any of its home games at Agganis and hasn't since 2015. Also, Courtney Sims (RIP) was on the Michigan team and from Boston.

The point is Boston is still a more attractive place for a BCS team to want to go play than Burlington as RF1 highlighted. What are the benefits to a BCS school to go play at UVM, a game they also could conceivably lose?

Additionally, at least at the Agganis you have a facility that can hold 6000-7000 fans. This new arena won’t be able to hold 4700 fans. What's the new arena's max capacity going to be again, isn't it only a few hundred more than what Patrick is now? Not that the arena should be designed for one theoretical basketball game obviously, but again, what are the benefits for a P5 school to play at UVM? Like, we know what the benefits are for UVM, but for them?
 
#24 ·
If there is one P5 school to come up to the new Arena BC would be by far the most likely candidate. They're in Boston, which as we've been saying is the WORST college basketball city in the country, so home OOC games are much less valuable for them (maybe it's just fatigue from Bruins/Celtics/Pats fans who become tired of winning). UVM has more history and connections with BC and their athletic department than they do any other P5 school.

I still want 'Cuse though....
 
#28 ·
FWIW I looked up attendance of all New England DI programs (2017-2018). PC and URI were both in the top-15 nationally for YOY attendance growth. URI makes a lot of sense, as the data's from last season when everyone was going gaga over EC Mathews and Fatts Russell, URI were getting AP votes, etc.

UVM could've definitely averaged a lot more if we had more gym capacity. Not that every game was a sellout, but I'm sure there would've easily been demand for 4,000 seats during those nights (6,000+ for playoffs), which would boosted the average a bit.

BU...20-win seasons, 30,000+ students on campus, and they get 600 fans to a game....tough look.

School Attendance
Providence 9,547
Uconn 7,829
URI 6,216
BC 5,160
Umass 2,994
UVM 2,929
Holy Cross 1,641
Quinnipiac 1,587
Harvard 1,511
CCSU 1,428
Hartford 1,408
Fairfield 1,347
Yale 1,306
Northeastern 1,142
UML 1,119
Maine 1,028
Brown 882
Dartmouth 868
BU 694
Bryant 634
UNH 481
Sacred Heart 442
 
#32 · (Edited)
The ranking of the highest New England schools average attendance didn't really change much for 2018-19:

NEW ENGLAND MEN'S BASKETBALL D1 HOME ATTENDANCE BY AVERAGE 2018-19
TEAM | GAMES | TOTAL | AVERAGE | LY AVERAGE | DIFF
PROVIDENCE | 18 | 171,761 | 9,542 | 9,547 | 0.0%
UCONN | 18 | 155,734 | 8,652 | 7,829 | 10.5%
URI | 14 | 81,153 | 5,797 | 6,216 | -6.7%
BOSTON COLLEGE | 18 | 94,377 | 5,243 | 5,160 | 1.6%
UMASS-AMHERST | 17 | 47,468 | 2,792 | 2,994 | -6.7%
VERMONT | 18 | 48,480 | 2,693 | 2,929 | -8.0%
HARVARD | 11 | 17,055 | 1,550 | 1,511 | 2.6%
FAIRFIELD | 12 | 17,484 | 1,457 | 1,347 | 8.2%
 
#29 ·
BC absolutely won't be coming to Burlington, and likely won't host us in Chestnut Hill anytime soon either since last time they did this happened:



BC was actually GOOD back then too-ranked #14, still had Al Skinner, Jared Dudley, and Tyrese Rice.
 
#31 ·
Not sure if that specific game had anything to do with Trapani transferring there, but I do believe that game was one of the earliest catalysts that eventually led BC to dismiss Skinner which has resulted in 2 unsuccessful hires and the current abyss they are in now.
 
#44 ·
Some possible Binghamton scheduling news not yet confirmed. Note that the location of this tournament could change from Belfast due to Brexit. Rumors have it relocating to Florida.

https://twitter.com/BONNIES_FAN/status/1127636798279159808

The "home" bracket for the Belfast Classic are reported to be: SBU, San Diego, UIC, and FAU (rumor has it the tourney may be in Boca Raton is year). The "away" teams are said to be: Binghamton, Canisius, Mercer, and Loyola, MD (1/2)
 
#53 ·
From "dunbar" on MBR......

According to his source, Maine's tentative OOC opponents:

Home:

Columbia
Dartmouth
Merrimack
Quinnipiac
In-State DIII

Away:

at Central Connecticut State
at Connecticut
at Harvard
at Hawaii
at Massachusetts
at Northeastern
at Portland
at Virginia
at Washington
 
#75 ·
I know Merrimack is not on UVM’s schedule, thus far, but I do believe it’s entering the NEC in 2019-20. Do not see its schedule out anywhere, though admittedly didn’t try hard to find. Hopefully it’s another D1 team near me UVM can start playing.
 
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