2017-18 Schedule

This is a brutal schedule for a team whose top five players may very well be pair  of sophomores, a freshman, and two transfers playing their first year with the program. The RPI could be top 25 if they are relatively successful.

I'm pretty sure LB St isn't on the non conference schedule besides the advocare.  STJ owes them a game in Long Beach but I don't think that's happening this year.

I thought I saw a number of outlets that had SJU visiting LBSU this year, if not I stand corrected.

Quote from: austour on May 24, 2017, 12:55:33 PM

I'm pretty sure LB St isn't on the non conference schedule besides the advocare.  STJ owes them a game in Long Beach but I don't think that's happening this year.

I thought I saw a number of outlets that had SJU visiting LBSU this year, if not I stand corrected.

I saw that as well, hard to believe they would travel to LA twice, and Phoenix once   

According to Rothstein's twitter page, Johnnies will host Sacred Heart as a part of non conf schedule.

Anyone know around what time the full schedule gets released?

Anyone know around what time the full schedule gets released?

Non-conference schedule is usually released in late summer.  Sometime between late July and late August.

Full schedule usually comes out in mid-September.  The Big East is generally the last conference to release it's schedule.  Since many of our teams play in pro arenas, Big East is powerless to release a schedule until after the NBA and NHL release theirs (NHL released their schedule this past week.  NBA generally likes to wait until after free agency is settled to post a schedule).

Jon Rothstein‏
2017 Advocare Invitational bracket, per sources: West Virginia/Marist, Nebraska/UCF, St. John's/Oregon State, Missouri/Long Beach State.

Solid draw for us in round 1. Oregon State stinks but has a real solid stretch 4 that's the the coach's son that could give us trouble. Assuming we win that one, Missouri in round 2 is going to be very tough

Similar to Miles Bridges and Amir Coffey last year, see matchup nightmare Michael Porter linked below. Potential #1 pick next Spring, we can draw Missouri by advancing past Oregon St. Thanksgiving wknd-

http://ballislife.com/michael-porter-jr-drops-47-points-at-jamal-crawfords-pro-am-this-kid-is-a-legit-pro/

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/193628/michael-porter-jr

Kassoum/Tariq/Marv split the defensive assignment? Kid can really play at 6'10.

Mizzou with the Porters will be tough.

Out of all those teams, I got WVU and Huggy winning it all.

Mizzou with the Porters will be tough.

Out of all those teams, I got WVU and Huggy winning it all.

There's only one Porter who'll be Mizzou's team this upcoming season.  The other Porter will be there in '18-'19.   

Missouri returns their top 3 scorers (all double-digit players), and they're adding a 5th year player (Kassius Robertson) who averaged 16 ppg at Canisius last season.  You add in Porter, Jr. and Jeremiah Tillmon, and Mizzou could pose some issues for many SEC opponents.

That is who I see us playing in semifinals of the tournament, and it could turn out to be a good win for us if we were to get past 'em.

By the way, I'd also have to go with West Virginia being the favorites to win this particular tournament.

Isn't WVU the obvious fav to win that tournament?

Quote from: Johnny23 on July 31, 2017, 02:00:55 PM

Mizzou with the Porters will be tough.

Out of all those teams, I got WVU and Huggy winning it all.

There's only one Porter who'll be Mizzou's team this upcoming season.  The other Porter will be there in '18-'19.   

Missouri returns their top 3 scorers (all double-digit players), and they're adding a 5th year player (Kassius Robertson) who averaged 16 ppg at Canisius last season.  You add in Porter, Jr. and Jeremiah Tillmon, and Mizzou could pose some issues for many SEC opponents.

That is who I see us playing in semifinals of the tournament, and it could turn out to be a good win for us if we were to get past 'em.

By the way, I'd also have to go with West Virginia being the favorites to win this particular tournament.

Yeah that's right on Porter and I agree, that would be a big win for us.

Quick question. Rothstein is covering the teams playing internationally on his twitter feed. When are we eligible to play early outside of the US again. Last time was with Lavin in Europe i believe.

Quick question. Rothstein is covering the teams playing internationally on his twitter feed. When are we eligible to play early outside of the US again. Last time was with Lavin in Europe i believe.

I believe we could have done so, starting this summer.   Somewhat surprised that we did not do so this year, but maybe something is in the works for next year.

Quote from: NYCoffey on August 09, 2017, 04:50:52 PM

Quick question. Rothstein is covering the teams playing internationally on his twitter feed. When are we eligible to play early outside of the US again. Last time was with Lavin in Europe i believe.

I believe we could have done so, starting this summer.   Somewhat surprised that we did not do so this year, but maybe something is in the works for next year.

Good time to do it is when you are going to play a lot of new players even though last time we did it with Lavin he still took the whole season to "experiment" with line-ups. Believe you can go once every 4 years.

Thanks.

Quote from: Johnny23 on July 31, 2017, 02:00:55 PM

Mizzou with the Porters will be tough.

Out of all those teams, I got WVU and Huggy winning it all.

There's only one Porter who'll be Mizzou's team this upcoming season.  The other Porter will be there in '18-'19.   

Missouri returns their top 3 scorers (all double-digit players), and they're adding a 5th year player (Kassius Robertson) who averaged 16 ppg at Canisius last season.  You add in Porter, Jr. and Jeremiah Tillmon, and Mizzou could pose some issues for many SEC opponents.

That is who I see us playing in semifinals of the tournament, and it could turn out to be a good win for us if we were to get past 'em.

By the way, I'd also have to go with West Virginia being the favorites to win this particular tournament.

Looks like we'll be facing both Porters if we advance in this tourney...

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/recruiting/basketball/mens/story/_/id/20297218/jontay-porter-reclassify-join-brother-michael-porter-jr-missouri

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 Chris Casey and Niagara improve to 2-0 in Costa Rica with an 87-59 win. Purple Eagles have five different players score in double-figures.

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 Niagara's Matt Scott with 21, six, and five in 23 mins as Chris Casey's squad wins its first game in Costa Rica. Top half MAAC team in 2018.


A lot of buzz surrounding Chris Casey's Niagara team this year, I've seen some predictions that have them 2nd in the MAAC, are we likely playing them in the OOC?

Full non-conference scheduled released:

http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/082117aab.html

Full non-conference scheduled released:

http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/082117aab.html

when would tickets to the Duke game go on sale?