Out of Conference Schedule

It would take a minor miracle for this to be an NCAA Tournament team. Only 2 legit scoring options and no Big East caliber PG on the roster. Steere will be a nice piece but lets not trick ourselves into believing he will be an all BE level player right out of the gate. NIT is the ceiling here.

Do you think LJ and Heron could be all league players, 1st & 2nd team?

BUTLER

Minnesota
Missouri
Oklahoma
@ U Miss
Florida
@ Baylor
Purdue

CREIGHTON

@ Michigan
Iowa
Nebraska
Oklahoma
@ Ariz St

DEPAUL

@Iowa
@ BC
Texas Tech
Northwestern

G'TOWN

Penn St
Texas
Duke
Ok State
@ SMU
Syracuse

MARQUETTE

Purdue
@Wisconsin
USC
Maryland
@Kansas St

SETON HALL

Mich St
Oregon
Gonzaga
Michigan
@Iowa St
Maryland

NOVA

@Ohio St
Miss ST
Baylor
Kansas
@ St Joe's
UConn
@ Temple

MIGHTY ST JOHN's

Central Connecticut St
New Hampshire
Vermont
Columbia
Brown
Albany

If Central Conn and Columbia aren't good enough to make this a challenging non conference, that’s on them.

Please, if you put the schedules put the complete schedule.
You have "forgotten" the bad teams that play against the other Big East teams and the good teams that play against us.

Please, if you put the schedules put the complete schedule.

That's certainly one option dummy. A second option is that I post whatever I want to make whatever points I find salient and you can piss off if you don't like it.

I disagree - I think this is definitely a tournament team with Herron, LJ and Steere. Now we have much needed depth and a real coach that will have the team ready every game. This all changes with injuries but right now I see it- at best NCAA Second Round and at worst NIT. Next year when Herron gone I think that changes but now I think we are in good shape for next season. A good season will get us good recruits too.

Every year we all think we have depth and then we see the new players play and the reality becomes we have no depth. See Sedee Keita, Trimble, Dixon, etc.

That's certainly one option dummy. A second option is that I post whatever I want to make whatever points I find salient and you can piss off if you don't like it.

Doc, that's just wrong speaking to gentlemen Gonzalo like that.

Do you think LJ and Heron could be all league players, 1st & 2nd team?

Yes I think they could be. I still don't think that's enough to carry this team to the NCAA Tournament with the lack of premier talent around them. I personally am not sold on Wright or Caraher being major contributors. Steere should be good but I think people are expecting too much from him at this point. An improved Roberts will be a nice piece but he's still a year or two away from being a guy you can trust to play 25-30 mpg in the Big East. And most importantly, we don't have anywhere near a BE level PG, the most important position in the game.

I expect Heron and LJ to play well enough and get enough help to steal a few wins from teams we shouldn't beat, and we'll probably lose a few games from teams we shouldn't lose to. If I had to guess right now this is an 18-14 (8-10) team at best.

We got West Virginia, Arizona and Arizona State. We have a chance to play either Virginia or UMass in a tournament game.

Other than that- Mercer, Queens College, Columbia, Central Connecticut State, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wagner, St. Peter's, Brown and Albany.

No Duke, No Syracuse, No Notre Dame sadly. Maybe schools just don't want to play us haha

For starters, why mention Queens College? That game doesn’t count. There are, as per usual, a number of bottom feeders on our schedule. I think that’s fine considering the experience this group has together. I like that coach has them working together, and that he’s present.

I don’t follow some of your points. How is Notre Dame a better game to schedule than West Virginia? Same difference to me. ASU, Arizona are from big conferences. This schedule isn’t daunting, but I don’t really see anything wrong with it other than I’d like more MSG games.

We technically have a chance to play Virginia or UMass, but I think it’s pretty likely we’ll be playing Virginia. That’s just fine with me. There are more than enough high majors and challenging mid majors teams on this schedule. Vermont was tough last year. That’s who we should be playing early on. It’s a good test.

Love this out of conference schedule!

December 18th - the Albany Great Danes versus the St. John's University Red Storm in the title game for "New York's team". It's on!!! Anything else is merely gravy.

I've waited a long, loooonnnnggg time for this matchup.

NY’s team is Buffalo.

For starters, why mention Queens College? That game doesn’t count. There are, as per usual, a number of bottom feeders on our schedule. I think that’s fine considering the experience this group has together. I like that coach has them working together, and that he’s present.

I don’t follow some of your points. How is Notre Dame a better game to schedule than West Virginia? Same difference to me. ASU, Arizona are from big conferences. This schedule isn’t daunting, but I don’t really see anything wrong with it other than I’d like more MSG games.

We technically have a chance to play Virginia or UMass, but I think it’s pretty likely we’ll be playing Virginia. That’s just fine with me. There are more than enough high majors and challenging mid majors teams on this schedule. Vermont was tough last year. That’s who we should be playing early on. It’s a good test.

It would be nice to renew our rivalries with those schools- lots of energy for those games and good experience for the team. We should have gotten at least one of those three. Also lots of ND alumni in NYC area would be nice environment classic Catholic school match up. But I guess its a respect thing- teams want to have to play us too. We are not good enough to to help SOS but not bad enough to just discount- maybe these teams do not want trap games.

Yes I think they could be. I still don't think that's enough to carry this team to the NCAA Tournament with the lack of premier talent around them. I personally am not sold on Wright or Caraher being major contributors. Steere should be good but I think people are expecting too much from him at this point. An improved Roberts will be a nice piece but he's still a year or two away from being a guy you can trust to play 25-30 mpg in the Big East. And most importantly, we don't have anywhere near a BE level PG, the most important position in the game.

I expect Heron and LJ to play well enough and get enough help to steal a few wins from teams we shouldn't beat, and we'll probably lose a few games from teams we shouldn't lose to. If I had to guess right now this is an 18-14 (8-10) team at best.

I think Greg Williams is going to step up just my feeling and one of the recruits will over-perform with the good coaching. I am telling you this year do not sleep on this team.

I think Greg Williams is going to step up just my feeling and one of the recruits will over-perform with the good coaching. I am telling you this year do not sleep on this team.

I honestly couldn’t get a read on Williams. Maybe he’ll be great. I hope so. It would make this team.

If I’m picking a guy to surprise people, I like Earlington. I want to see more of him.

If I’m picking a guy to surprise people, I like Earlington. I want to see more of him.

I was impressed with ME's aggressiveness last year in limited minutes. Unfortunately he doesn't really have a position. Reminds me a bit of Anthony Glover.

Earlington's a heady player. Did a lot of the little things well in limited minutes last season. Seems like he'll be a good glue guy for us.

I was impressed with ME's aggressiveness last year in limited minutes. Unfortunately he doesn't really have a position. Reminds me a bit of Anthony Glover.

He might be one of those "overachievers" that can break out for minutes this year. With good and better coaching he will receive under CMA, he might force himself onto the court. And, the opportunity for minutes is wide open.

NY’s team is Buffalo.

You might be right. 

Last year was going to be it for the Danes but losing transfers that got significant minutes at top programs like Villanova and Florida St. was an unforeseen death blow.

You might be right. 

Last year was going to be it for the Danes but losing transfers that got significant minutes at top programs like Villanova and Florida St. was an unforeseen death blow.

The kid who transferred to Nova stunk and looked out of place in the BE. Should've stayed at Albany.

The kid who transferred to Nova stunk and looked out of place in the BE. Should've stayed at Albany.

If he was so out of place in the BE why did the best coach in the conference see fit to play him 17 minutes a game on the best team in the conference?

I wish he had stayed with the Danes as well. 

If he was so out of place in the BE why did the best coach in the conference see fit to play him 17 minutes a game on the best team in the conference?

I wish he had stayed with the Danes as well.

He was a fish out of water for Nova's worst team in the last half decade. He was nothing more than a minutes gap filler until this season when they've reloaded. #Replacement.

He was a fish out of water for Nova's worst team in the last half decade. He was nothing more than a minutes gap filler until this season when they've reloaded. #Replacement.

The team won the BE regular season and the BE tournament and Cremo was a significant part of that. You write like they should be ashamed of last season. Seems unfair to hold their seemingly impossible in todays post Ucla college basketball landscape 2 out of 3 national championships against them. It was the type of "down" year we could use on Union Ave.

Where you see a fish out of water I see a big fish in a small pond that took a chance and became a medium sized fish in a lake. I enjoyed watching him at Albany and consider his foray into Philly a success.

The team won the BE regular season and the BE tournament and Cremo was a significant part of that. You write like they should be ashamed of last season. Seems unfair to hold their seemingly impossible in todays post Ucla college basketball landscape 2 out of 3 national championships against them. It was the type of "down" year we could use on Union Ave.

Where you see a fish out of water I see a big fish in a small pond that took a chance and became a medium sized fish in a lake. I enjoyed watching him at Albany and consider his foray into Philly a success.

By Nova standards, last season was a failure. The BE as a whole was way down as we've established ad nauseum. Like I said Wright, Nova and the entire conference will be better this year.