What we know about Gophers' 2013-14 schedule

[SelectionSunday]

Home
TBD (Maui on Mainland opponent)

Road
Richmond (this assumes new coach doesn't want to void back end of home-and-home contract)

Neutral Site
Maui Invitational/Nov. 25-27: (3 of) Arkansas, Baylor, Cal, Chaminade, Dayton, Gonzaga, Syracuse

TBD
ACC Challenge opponent/site

Will be interesting to see what the conference does with the 2013-14 Big Ten schedule. Usually these are done in 2-year blocks, but with Maryland and Rutgers coming in 2014-15 next year's conference schedule will be a one-time-only set-up.

Since it's only for one season, I nominate playing a true-round robin (22 games), or short of that, let's bump up the B1G sked to 20 games. Have always thought 20 conference games and 10-11 nonconference games would be the perfect split for basketball, especially in light of how a lot of coaches like to schedule outside their league (Charmin soft other than their exempt tourney).

 

[Gopher Warrior]

SS - do you know if anything concrete has been decided on the B1G/ACC Challenge, especially with the new ACC teams coming in? At one point it sounded like the new teams were going to be in the discussion... but not sure if there's a determined methodology for matching up teams for 2013.. or really where any of it stands.

Thanks for any insight...

 

[Johnnyboy18]

Esposito said on twitter that he had 11 tournament teams lined up for next year but I don't know if that includes the Big Ten or not.

 

[SelectionSunday]

SS - do you know if anything concrete has been decided on the B1G/ACC Challenge, especially with the new ACC teams coming in? At one point it sounded like the new teams were going to be in the discussion... but not sure if there's a determined methodology for matching up teams for 2013.. or really where any of it stands.

Thanks for any insight...

GW, haven't heard anything definite, but it sounds like it will continue. From what I've seen it's expected that Pitt and Syracuse (not sure about Notre Dame) will be part of the Challenge. I'm assuming the ACC will exclude what it perceives to be its bottom 2-3 teams.

 

[SelectionSunday]

Esposito said on twitter that he had 11 tournament teams lined up for next year but I don't know if that includes the Big Ten or not.

I would assume anything scheduled by the previous staff would be up in the air, except for (perhaps) honoring the Richmond contract (I hope we honor it, Richmond figures to be a solid road test). Certainly the new coach may want to revisit the part of the schedule already set up by the prior regime.