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Vandy and Cal just announced a home and home beginning this year, so maybe all hope is not lost in that happening.

We really need to play both Wake Forest and Florida to salvage this OOC schedule. Missouri didn't project to be great but that would have been at worst a Q2 game(maybe even a Q1 game). The buy games are better, in theory, but relying on them to bolster your OOC can be a tricky thing.

Have to avoid the game with Wichita State at this point to have a respectable OOC SOS. Need to beat Wake Forest/Florida in the first game, assuming that's the matchup.

Louisville should be about 100-125 spots better(if not more) so that'll definitely help their numbers.

It's just a lot of all or nothing. OSU, Cuse and NC State aren't tournament locks. And if you get St Joe's instead of Tech, that's going to be a significant hit to the SOS. I'd expect this OOC SOS to be 300+ for sure.

I'd expect NMSU to take a leap forward based on their program track record, but that's a lot of teams hovering around 300(+). IIRC, their OOC SOS was pretty weak last year too, and this one looks worse. They did enough to get an at large, but that required going .500 in a very tough league. I...

Oh yeah those are good games for sure, but they'll need to go 2-1 in them to put themselves in good shape IMO. If you're a bubble team with a NCSOS in the 300's that typically doesn't bode well for selection. Out of those 3, I think Syracuse will take a pretty nice leap, but Marquette will...

Wow EIGHT games against projected 250+ competition. They're pretty much guaranteed to have an NCSOS in the 300's. If they don't go undefeated, they'll need 12 B1G wins to put themselves in position for an at large bid.

Pitino has always scheduled pretty tough in the non conference. Much tougher than Ben has. Even though I do like the direction of this OOC schedule thus far. I'm not sure this schedule will be any better than any of the Pitino schedules. Especially if we get Wichita State instead of both Wake...

Figured Vegas was a likely destination at some point. Will be interesting in the start times for that tournament. Going to be tough for a 12:00 ET tip when it's gonna be 9:00 a.m. local time.

Yeah, I'm not all that familiar with the whole UST thing.

Sure, but we aren't going to schedule 11 great games. I'm fairly happy with the schedule as it currently stands. Should be a top 150 OOC SOS as of now Id guess. Maybe even top 100 OOC SOS.

North Texas is a really good addition. Should once again be a top 100 team. As for the Omaha game. I'm not from Minnesota, so I don't fully get the notion to play St. Thomas, and why that's such a big deal. Sure it'd be nice I guess for the locals, but there is no guarantee they will be a good...

I could see them being in a similar situation to us last year because of their poor OOC. They likely lose at most 2 games, but with the bad SOS will need 11 or 12 conference wins to make up for it.

Great schedule. Only 1 200+ team, and that was to give Nelson a homecoming game. Out of their 6 buy games, I can see 5 of them winning their conference.

To double it he would have needed to be a top 15ish pick and to triple it a top 7 pick. Not saying he couldn't have done that, but odds are slimmer, especially in a better draft class next year.

Iowa's got an interesting OOC schedule. No true road games, with very winnable neutral site games. Wazzu and Utah St lost a ton from last year. If they can beat OSU at home, they could be undefeated in OOC play. Their OOC SoS will likely be in the 300's though. Home Nov. 4 vs. Southern U...

I doubt we'd do another home and home this season, but the agreement with Missouri last year was on August 10th so perhaps not out of the question. It would be nice to have an upper tier game in The Barn. I do like the mid major schools we are scheduled to play this far. If I had to guess...

Christie signs a 4 year $7.9 million dollar deal. Last two years are a team option according to sources. So basically guaranteed about $3.95 million dollars, at worst.

I don't know about best, but it's definitely the deepest. Patterson should be able to take over for Hawkins pretty seamlessly. Charlotte wasn't that much worse than we were last year and he avg 14.5 ppg for them. That's a really quality pick up. Losing Christie was the biggest loss of the...