Basketball scheduling

[msstate7]

Has howland talked any about his OOC scheduling philosophy? I'm really interested in who we will play.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

He has a lot of work to do. All we have scheduled as of now is a home game with Southern University & Tulane. An away game at FSU & playing in the Puerto Rico Shootout.

[Coach34]

We have a veteran team- we need a couple a good RPI games

[msstate7]

He has a lot of work to do. All we have scheduled as of now is a home game with Southern University & Tulane. An away game at FSU & playing in the Puerto Rico Shootout.

Like all those, but the southern game. Really hope we get la tech, Georgia tech (since we wanna recruit Atlanta), uab, Georgia southern, and I'd love to get Memphis. These are games we can win and wouldn't kill our rpi

[Quaoarsking]

We shouldn't play Southern University at all.

Ideally, we wouldn't play any non-conference games unless we reasonably expect their RPI to be in the top 150 or so. We don't have to play a bunch of great teams that will beat us, just play a bunch of teams with an RPI around 100-120, and we'll win all/most of them and have a good RPI.

We played 8 teams with an RPI below 200 this past year. That's crazy and self-defeating.

ETA: Tulane's had an RPI outside the top 200 in 5 of the last 6 years, so we shouldn't play them either. I'm guessing it's too late to get out of the Southern and Tulane games, but we shouldn't schedule a single other non-conference game against a sub-200 team.

[chef dixon]

We should be scheduling as many good teams as will play us. This isn't football. You actually get rewarded for it even if you lose most of them.

[missouridawg]

We shouldn't play Southern University at all.

Ideally, we wouldn't play any non-conference games unless we reasonably expect their RPI to be in the top 150 or so. We don't have to play a bunch of great teams that will beat us, just play a bunch of teams with an RPI around 100-120, and we'll win all/most of them and have a good RPI.

We played 8 teams with an RPI below 200 this past year. That's crazy and self-defeating.

ETA: Tulane's had an RPI outside the top 200 in 5 of the last 6 years, so we shouldn't play them either. I'm guessing it's too late to get out of the Southern and Tulane games, but we shouldn't schedule a single other non-conference game against a sub-200 team.

Predicting which teams are going to finish above and below the 150 RPI mark is not nearly as easy as you're making it out to be.

[maroonmania]

He has a lot of work to do. All we have scheduled as of now is a home game with Southern University & Tulane. An away game at FSU & playing in the Puerto Rico Shootout.

What about Oregon State? Are they not making the return trip this year?

[Quaoarsking]

Predicting which teams are going to finish above and below the 150 RPI mark is not nearly as easy as you're making it out to be.

With statistical software, you could get a pretty good idea by developing a formula based on a team's last few RPIs and number of minutes returning. It wouldn't be perfect, and there would always be a huge outliers, but those should balance out.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

What about Oregon State? Are they not making the return trip this year?

Nope