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323SGrant

IU and the Maui Classic 2015

By 323SGrant, in Indiana Men's Basketball

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Zachary Farmer    135

Zachary Farmer
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they played Louisville last year and played uconn in 2013 and played North Carolina in 2012. 3 of the 5 u mentioned we have played in the last 3 years. If u go back 4 years we have played 4 of the 5. Also of the list of teams u listed North Carolina (2) and Louisville (22) had a better sos then Iu (23) last year


You're right but what I meant was instead of just one "Elite" game every season like you just pointed out we need to play all of of them the same season like in the early and mid 2000's. One game per year for me is not good enough what we need to is play 4/5 of those a year in home and home series.

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Uspshoosier    46,146

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You're right but what I meant was instead of just one "Elite" game every season like you just pointed out we need to play all of of them the same season like in the early and mid 2000's. One game per year for me is not good enough what we need to is play 4/5 of those a year in home and home series.

maybe if we played in a weaker conference I would agree with u but playing in the big 10 (which is a battle each game) no way would I want to play 4 or 5 of those teams in a single year maybe 2 at the most. The last time I remembering iu scheduling the agressive it backfired on mike Davis and we didn't make the tournament I respect you want a tougher schedule but it could come back to bite them if they lost to all of those teams. Last year in the non conference we played 5 ncaa tourney teams, in 2013 besides uconn we played at #4 syracuse and in 2012 besides North Carolina we played Georgetown

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Zachary Farmer    135

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maybe if we played in a weaker conference I would agree with u but playing in the big 10 (which is a battle each game) no way would I want to play 4 or 5 of those teams in a single year maybe 2 at the most. The last time I remembering iu scheduling the agressive it backfired on mike Davis and we didn't make the tournament I respect you want a tougher schedule but it could come back to bite them if they lost to all of those teams


Point taken. It did hurt Mike Davis I just feel like the 13-14 team got used to making mistakes over and over again cause they could against bad teams. I respect your opinion like you do mine it just eats me up looking at our schedule and half of it has teams like Lamar instead of Kentucky. If that's too much atleast get good mid majors instead of teams in the 300's.
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HoosierAloha    30,068

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Point taken. It did hurt Mike Davis I just feel like the 13-14 team got used to making mistakes over and over again cause they could against bad teams. I respect your opinion like you do mine it just eats me up looking at our schedule and half of it has teams like Lamar instead of Kentucky. If that's too much atleast get good mid majors instead of teams in the 300's.

 

Your last point is your best point and what I've been harping on for awhile now.  Sure a 200ish RPI team from last season could fall quite a bit from one season to the next but we need a consistent schedule.

 

2-3 top 25 RPI teams (one should be a home/home series, the other from B1G/ACC Challenge, third from preseason tourney)

2-3 50-100 RPI teams (one from Crossroads Classic, one from preseason tourney, possible 2 for one home/away)

6ish 100-200 RPI teams (these should be mostly home games, 1-2 from preseason tourney)

finish up with a few sub 200 RPI teams to get warmed up in the early season or possibly during quick turnaround games

 

I understand games are usually scheduled pretty far out but with a little research and 'politiking' it can be done.

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Zachary Farmer    135

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or unlv theyl be pretty good this year[/quote][quote name="drewheck" post="181086" timestamp=
They have all the pieces to be a really good team Especially with Stephen Zimmerman. The battle between hima and Bryant if they played would be hyped by both fan bases.
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LIHoosier    26,472

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Your last point is your best point and what I've been harping on for awhile now.  Sure a 200ish RPI team from last season could fall quite a bit from one season to the next but we need a consistent schedule.

 

2-3 top 25 RPI teams (one should be a home/home series, the other from B1G/ACC Challenge, third from preseason tourney)

2-3 50-100 RPI teams (one from Crossroads Classic, one from preseason tourney, possible 2 for one home/away)

6ish 100-200 RPI teams (these should be mostly home games, 1-2 from preseason tourney)

finish up with a few sub 200 RPI teams to get warmed up in the early season or possibly during quick turnaround games

 

I understand games are usually scheduled pretty far out but with a little research and 'politiking' it can be done.

Once you're scheduling sub-100 teams, its best to just schedule by conference rather than going after a particular school. Even the worst teams in the Horizon or Summit are gonna have a higher RPI/KenPom ranking than all but the best SWAC/MEAC/NEC team.

 

My Maui prediction

 

Kansas/Chaminade

St Johns/UNLV

 

UCLA/Wake

IU/Vandy

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LIHoosier    26,472

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‏@AdamZagoria: The Maui Invitational bracket will be revealed at 1:30 ET on Tuesday

 

Or Katz can leak it beforehand

 

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/13328112/kansas-jayhawks-indiana-hoosiers-anchor-maui-invitational-bracket

 

IU/Wake v St John's/Vandy

 

Kansas/Chaminade v UCLA/UNLV

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