Schedule

[montana_heel]

Looking over the schedule. Looks like quite a few good games starting with Indiana.

What does anyone know about Davidson and Tennessee?

I know Barnes is coaching UT but no idea if there is any talent in the lineup.

Thanks.

 

[alabamaheel]

Davidsons top dog has a shoulder injury but should be back at the seasons start. Great scorer, top ten in the country last year I believe.

 

[Archer2]

Barnes will have Tennesse ready, you know he would love to beat UNC.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Starting with Indiana?

Don't forget we should be playing either UConn or OK State followed by either Oregon or Wisconsin the next day in the Maui Tournament. Then Indiana.

All on the road. That's a brutal stretch of 3 top-20 teams (based on last year's rankings).

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Here's a cut and paste of the pre-conference schedule. I've added Pomeroy's preseason rankings. Road games get an * [for Maui, the rankings are in the order the teams are listed]

228 - Fri Nov. 11 Tulane *
97 - Sun Nov. 13 Chattanooga
118 - Tue Nov. 15 Long Beach State
159 - Fri Nov. 18 Hawaii *
NR - Mon Nov. 21 Maui: Chaminade *
60 or 41 - Tue Nov. 22 Maui: OklaSt/UConn *
99 or 8 or 29 or 6 - Wed Nov. 23 Maui: Tenn/Wisc/Gtown/Oregon *
16 - Wed Nov. 30 Indiana *
283 - Sun Dec. 4 Radford
74 - Wed Dec. 7 Davidson
99 - Sun Dec. 11 Tennessee
4 - Sat Dec. 17 Kentucky *
82 - Wed Dec. 21 Northern Iowa
94 - Wed Dec. 28 Monmouth

Only a couple of creampuffs in that group.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Interesting to note that we could theoretically play 43 games this season.

Won't happen of course but here's the math:

14 preconference games
18 ACC games
05 ACC tournament games
06 NCAA tournament games
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43 total games

Now it's highly unlikely that any team that is bad enough to have to play 5 games in the ACCT would be good enough to make it to the NCAAT championship game. But even playing only 3 ACCT games puts us at 41 if we make it to the NCAAT finals.

Time to get a 41-0 T-shirt?

JK

 

[Calabrias Inferno]

UConn played 11 postseason games in 2011 - and won all 11. Our conference is comparable to the Big East from a few years back. ACC is stacked. Lots of talented teams. If all 15 teams are eligible for the ACCT, then the #10 seed would have to play on the opening night. Obviously I don't think we'll sniff anywhere near a 10-seed. But I could see a team like Syracuse or Louisville underachieving in the regular season and making a deep run in the NCAA's.

 

[montana_heel]

Didn't catch that possible UConn and Oregon on the schedule that I viewed. Wow. That could be quite a week of great games. Doubt we come out of that unscathed as Roy will be doing some substitution patterns for on down the road that will have an impact. Can't wait for the season to start so we can talk basketball.

 

[Archer2]

What a brutal schedule! Cripes amighty.

 

[coryfly]

Tennessee isn't going to be good but they have some freshman who apparently they feel are performing better than they thought they would to this point. They will play hard and provide solid competition. They could be better than last year and last year they beat UK and a couple of other good teams. Shouldn't be a real issue for this UNC team though even without Theo.

 

[Archer2]

I like your optimism Cory but we have a lot of questions to be answered this year in order to be a real contender, against what has to be a top 5 schedule. Theo's loss is going to hurt early on. We all know Roy likes to tinker with his lineups early as well. Don't be surprised if we lose 2-3 games early as we try to find player roles to allow us to replace Marcus, Brice, and now our most versatile player.

 

[dadika13]

Your yearly reminder.....Duke is playing 1 true non-conference road game this year.

 

[Archer2]

What a shocker!

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

What a brutal schedule! Cripes amighty.

I love it! A couple of easy games early is fine to get out the kinks and experiment broadly with lineups but then I want to see "real" games.

I like it that we are moving to a 20-game conference schedule soon (although it should have been 21 games - they missed it by thaaat much).