Basketball team headed to play in Vegas this December

[Coach34]

UNLV
South Florida
Santa Clara

pretty good tourney to be in

[msstate7]

UNLV
South Florida
Santa Clara

pretty good tourney to be in

I have no prob with this, but I hope we schedule more than a couple directional schools. We need some easy w's

[Coach34]

as part of that tourney- we get a "sweet meat" to play first on campus before going to Vegas

[RBritt]

Coach, think Deville will play against us if we draw UNLV or will he be strung out dopesick?

[msstate7]

Coach, think Deville will play against us if we draw UNLV or will he be strung out dopesick?
Forgot about him. He'll probably have his best game of the year against us.

[Coach34]

I hope Deville is getting better and they have his medicine regulated properly.

[601Dawg]

There goes our plan to water down our schedule this year.

I would rather be playing UNO, Alcorn State, Central Arkansas, etc. instead of the likes of UNLV and South Florida.

[engie]

South Florida is historically the 2nd worst basketball program in a major conference -- to Northwestern.

[Hump4Hoops]

There goes our plan to water down our schedule this year.

I would rather be playing UNO, Alcorn State, Central Arkansas, etc. instead of the likes of UNLV and South Florida.

Wholeheartedly disagree. We will have plenty of bad bad teams on our schedule. This is not replacing UNO and Alcorn, this is replacing Texas and North Carolina. Do you really not want one OOC matchup worth being proud of if we win?

[601Dawg]

South Florida is historically the 2nd worst basketball program in a major conference -- to Northwestern.

They were in the NCAA tournament in 2011

[Raytoraid83]

If Deville cant stay out of trouble in starkville, ms i can't see las vegas being the best fit for him. To say he had a rough childhood would be putting it very lightly, definitely rooting for the man.

[engie]

They were in the NCAA tournament in 2011

for the 3rd time ever before falling right back apart..

Heath is 85-109(34-74) there. 4 of his 6 years there have been relatively close to Ray's first year at MSU in their overall ineptitude. The previous coach went 40-76.

[601Dawg]

I just want as many cupcake wins as possible. I think it is very possible that the 2013-14 MSU basketball team is very capable of winning 15-18 games if we water down out OOC schedule with some SWAC and Southland bottom feeders.