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SLB wrote: ↑

February 23rd, 2020, 9:53 am

Any updates on who else we are playing in the non-conference schedule of next season?

Our staff is currently concerned with who we have left on our schedule this year. They'll take care of next year over the summer.

At the coaches luncheon, Smith said that we have a 6 year home and home deal with byu.

FWIW, Myrtle Beach has 1 team that would be a Quad 1 game (if played today) - Dayton.
There would be 2 Quad 2 games - Loyola-Chicago, and Missouri.
The others - Pitt(101), Charlotte, Nebraska and Penn would be Quad 3 games.

So it's a decent field in that there are no apparent Quad 4 games (see NC A&T this year), but only 1 Quad 1 team. However, Dayton has a good chance to be coming off of at least a Sweet Sixteen appearance.

What type of games should we expect to be scheduled before next season? We already have the Myrtle Beach, Davidson, BYU, St Marys, etc. Should we expect a big game like vs a blue blood?

SectionBAggie wrote: ↑

February 23rd, 2020, 8:13 pm

FWIW, Myrtle Beach has 1 team that would be a Quad 1 game (if played today) - Dayton.
There would be 2 Quad 2 games - Loyola-Chicago, and Missouri.
The others - Pitt(101), Charlotte, Nebraska and Penn would be Quad 3 games.

So it's a decent field in that there are no apparent Quad 4 games (see NC A&T this year), but only 1 Quad 1 team. However, Dayton has a good chance to be coming off of at least a Sweet Sixteen appearance.

While I’m sure Dayton will still be very good they will be losing their do everything top 10 nba draft pick after this season.

Any updates?

I think if queta comes back you will 1-2 neutral site games vs quality competition.

What PAC 12 team would you like to see the Aggies play? I personally think that it would nice to face a PAC 12 team.
Something to think about with the PAC 12 (Net ranking 3/12/20)
Oregon (#12)
Arizona (#14)
Colorado (#25)
Stanford (#33)
USC (#45)
Arizona State (#54)
Washington (#58)
Oregon State (#71)
Utah (#85 )
Washington State (#115)
Cal (#139)

After their rough year, could be a good time to schedule a home-and-home with UW.

Do anyone have any knowledge who our first opponent would be for the Myrtle Beach Invitational tournament?

SLB wrote: ↑

March 14th, 2020, 10:19 am

What PAC 12 team would you like to see the Aggies play? I personally think that it would nice to face a PAC 12 team.
Something to think about with the PAC 12 (Net ranking 3/12/20)
Oregon (#12)
Arizona (#14)
Colorado (#25)
Stanford (#33)
USC (#45)
Arizona State (#54)
Washington (#58)
Oregon State (#71)
Utah (#85 )
Washington State (#115)
Cal (#139)

There’s no reason we shouldn’t be playing Utah. I love in-state rivalry games and it would be fun swapping games each year in the Spectrum and Huntsman Center.

As for the others, Washington and AZ would be cool.

Really after seeing the importance of playing and beating LSU and Florida this year on our at-large chances, we really need to try these types of game more. We obviously didn’t need it for multiple reasons this year but they proved to build up our NET ranking like we need each year. I think they would have been more beneficial compared to wins vs BYU and St. Mary’s even though the NET would have been the same. The committee always has a bias.

I would love to see at least 4 Q1 games each year in our OOC. We go 50/50 and we are set with the opportunity for a high seed if we win them all. Couple those games with a few good teams in conference and we have a good path to make the NCAA every year. Hopefully we can get 3 Q1 opponents in conference in the future.


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SLB wrote: ↑

March 14th, 2020, 11:47 am

Do anyone have any knowledge who our first opponent would be for the Myrtle Beach Invitational tournament?

From what I can see from last season's Myrtle Beach Invitational, we appear to be the #2 seed which means we are likely facing Charlotte or Penn or Nebraska in the 1st round.

SwaggieAggie wrote: ↑

March 14th, 2020, 2:01 pm

SLB wrote: ↑

March 14th, 2020, 10:19 am

What PAC 12 team would you like to see the Aggies play? I personally think that it would nice to face a PAC 12 team.
Something to think about with the PAC 12 (Net ranking 3/12/20)
Oregon (#12)
Arizona (#14)
Colorado (#25)
Stanford (#33)
USC (#45)
Arizona State (#54)
Washington (#58)
Oregon State (#71)
Utah (#85 )
Washington State (#115)
Cal (#139)

There’s no reason we shouldn’t be playing Utah. I love in-state rivalry games and it would be fun swapping games each year in the Spectrum and Huntsman Center.

As for the others, Washington and AZ would be cool.

What about the a mw/pac12 challenge. Schedule 3 games for the next expected top 3 teams to play each other. They will say no. But a usu and SDSU and unlv matchup with say Oregon, asu and UCLA in Los Angeles would be fun. Probably a pipe dream but would be fun.

Or what about BYU and usu do a 1:1 with both Arizona schools. One road game at their venues and then 1 game in salt lake.

Any updates?

USU needs a home and home multiple series vs NMSU. This would help the schedule, bring back a good rivalry and the final bonus is that Frank returns to the board,

St. Mary's update

We need at least 2 more quality opponents in the non-conference schedule.

SLB wrote:We need at least 2 more quality opponents in the non-conference schedule.

I vote butler and gonzaga


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Something to keep in mind when thinking about for next season's schedule
2019 Non-conference schedule by Quads
Q1- 4 games
Q2- 1 game
Q3- 1 game
Q4- 5 games
D2- 2 games
Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75.
Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135.
Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240.
Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353.

How many would be down with something like going to Phil Knight Invitational?

SLB wrote:How many would be down with something like going to Phil Knight Invitational?

Isn't that an exempt tournament? We're already going to Myrtle Beach.

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ProvoAggie wrote: ↑

March 30th, 2020, 11:19 pm

SLB wrote:How many would be down with something like going to Phil Knight Invitational?

Isn't that an exempt tournament? We're already going to Myrtle Beach.

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I was a mentioning an event game where you play Oregon or Oregon State in Portland not a tournament.

Looks like Dixie State is on the schedule:

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 11:59 am

Looks like Dixie State is on the schedule:

Thanks for the update

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 11:59 am

Looks like Dixie State is on the schedule:

Let's get UVU and SUU on there, then we can mock Utah as being the only team in the state that won't play us. Candy Asses!

Aggie19 wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 12:45 pm

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 11:59 am

Looks like Dixie State is on the schedule:

Let's get UVU and SUU on there, then we can mock Utah as being the only team in the state that won't play us. Candy Asses!

I think we could see SUU on the schedule in 2021. Not sure about UVU.

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 1:01 pm

Aggie19 wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 12:45 pm

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 11:59 am

Looks like Dixie State is on the schedule:

Let's get UVU and SUU on there, then we can mock Utah as being the only team in the state that won't play us. Candy Asses!

I think we could see SUU on the schedule in 2021. Not sure about UVU.

Is Dixie still D2 or are they making the jump to D1 this coming season? If we are going to play 1 D2 team i like that it is Dixie State. At least it is a regional game against an instate opponent.

Dixie State will make the jump to D1 this coming season and also be joining the WAC. Probably still a Quad 4 game...

Aggie19 wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 12:45 pm

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 11:59 am

Looks like Dixie State is on the schedule:

Let's get UVU and SUU on there, then we can mock Utah as being the only team in the state that won't play us. Candy Asses!

It would be cool to get UVU and SUU on the schedule. It would be nice to play them at home or road.

Floppy Hat wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 1:41 pm

Dixie State will make the jump to D1 this coming season and also be joining the WAC. Probably still a Quad 4 game...

Cool they are making the jump. It is a good game to have on the schedule. If we we are going to have some quad 4 games at least be with regional teams.

UVU and SUU do not want to play USU. If you look at the record you can see why, as far as playing Pac-12 teams in Logan I doubt any of them want the travel, plus most likely a loss. USU needs to pressure the U to play us home and home in basketball, also I believe NMSU might be willing.

Aggie84025 wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 2:21 pm

Floppy Hat wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 1:41 pm

Dixie State will make the jump to D1 this coming season and also be joining the WAC. Probably still a Quad 4 game...

Cool they are making the jump. It is a good game to have on the schedule. If we we are going to have some quad 4 games at least be with regional teams.

More info on that, thanks to the people for the updates
https://dixiestateathletics.com/sports/ ... c-faq.aspx

SLB wrote: ↑

December 2nd, 2019, 9:01 pm

Already, we have a nice schedule for next season.
10 non-conference games + 3 2020 Myrtle Beach Invitational tournament games
Opponents so far (NET ranking 3/12/20)
Home - BYU(#9), St. Mary’s (#31), Dixie State (new D1 team joining the WAC)
Road- Davidson (#75), Weber State (#273)
Neutral- 3 of the 7 teams (Charlotte (#176), Dayton (#3), Loyola (Chicago)(#98), Missouri(#84), Nebraska(#199), Penn (#149), and Pitt(#109))

8 remaining games
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketbal ... t-rankings
Who else should we play next season?

I will continue to update this.

SLB wrote: ↑

March 31st, 2020, 3:03 pm

SLB wrote: ↑

December 2nd, 2019, 9:01 pm

Already, we have a nice schedule for next season.
10 non-conference games + 3 2020 Myrtle Beach Invitational tournament games
Opponents so far (NET ranking 3/12/20)
Home - BYU(#9), St. Mary’s (#31), Dixie State (new D1 team joining the WAC)
Road- Davidson (#75), Weber State (#273)
Neutral- 3 of the 7 teams (Charlotte (#176), Dayton (#3), Loyola (Chicago)(#98), Missouri(#84), Nebraska(#199), Penn (#149), and Pitt(#109))

8 remaining games
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketbal ... t-rankings
Who else should we play next season?

I will continue to update this.

Good stuff.

Btw both BYU and st Mary’s are losing a lot from multiple guys. I don’t follow st Mary’s roster situation at all but BYU really does not have a lot in the pipeline for next year unless they pull off a big transfer/recruit or two.