2015-16 schedule

[wildelk2]

Anyone have any ideas about our non-conference schedule for next season? We know about the tournement in Kansas City with NC, Mizzou and K-State. If you were the schedule maker who would you like to play?
Practically speaking, we'll get a few cupcakes at home, but the non-conference presents opportunities to play games vs. teams we other-wise wouldn't play (Master of the obvious).
I'd like to see DePaul and/or Loyola on the schedule every year! And I wouldn't mind road games at those (2) schools as this could develop into rivalry games as Loyola and DePaul are close in proximity.
As far as road games, we should concentrate on a particular area that helps recruiting. Coach K makes sure Duke plays in NYC or East Rutherford at least once a year. I there an area of the country where a little more exposure would help our recruiting? More east coast games? Renew the series against Stanford? How about Georgia where Jershon is from, or Florida?
Off - season fun has begun, and we need to do something until Camp Kenosha starts.

GO CATS!!! eric

 

[JoeWildcat]

I would just like to see us stop scheduling teams in the bottom 50 of D-I. These games kill us in the RPI and do nothing to help our team prepare for conference play. I'd like our "cream-puff" games to be against teams in the middle or slightly below the middle of D-I; it would help us in many ways.

 

[realcatfan]

Joe, the only bottom 50 RPI team we played was Missouri Valley State. This game was on December 14th. The previous game was December 6th. Why the long layoff? Because finals were Dec 8th to Dec 12th. With the academic stress at Northwestern, the team really isn't practicing, playing... That game is what it is. It's a time for the kids to be done with finals, get back to playing basketball, not get a loss...

Unless I missed someone, the only other bottom 100 RPI teams we played was Northern Kentucky and UIC. Right before and after Christmas before Big Ten play. Again, it sounds like a good idea to schedule a bad team when our team may be focused on everything except basketball.

 

[FeliSilvestris]

Originally posted by realcatfan:
Joe, the only bottom 50 RPI team we played was Missouri Valley State.

He didn't say bottom 50 RPI....just NCAA-I bottom 50.
See linked thread.



confirmed weak OOC schedule

 

[realcatfan]

Originally posted by FeliSilvestris:

Originally posted by realcatfan:
Joe, the only bottom 50 RPI team we played was Missouri Valley State.

He didn't say bottom 50 RPI....just NCAA-I bottom 50.
See linked thread.

So we're not going to judge the NCAA I bottom 50 by the RPI? That's how the committee does it.

 

[FeliSilvestris]

Originally posted by realcatfan:

Originally posted by FeliSilvestris:

Originally posted by realcatfan:
Joe, the only bottom 50 RPI team we played was Missouri Valley State.

He didn't say bottom 50 RPI....just NCAA-I bottom 50.
See linked thread.

So we're not going to judge the NCAA I bottom 50 by the RPI? That's how the committee does it.

Says who? Not the NCAA, for sure.

The NCAA goes out of its way to emphasize that the RPI is only ONE OF MANY resources available to the committee members to help them make their decisions. Other computer ranking systems (KenPom and Sagarin come to mind) have been made available to the committee also in recent years. They do emphasize that all computer-based ranking systems (including the RPI) have significant limitations (although they do provide useful information).

The actual selection is made through a sequence of ballots. At each stage each member vote for a certain number of teams from those still under consideration, and the teams that receive a certain number of votes are promoted from the "pool" to the selected ones.

Each committee member can decide how to vote following his own (undisclosed) reasons...say if a member pasionately believes in Sagarin rankings he could vote more or less following Sagarin (but he doesn't need to tell anyone that that is how he is voting)...he could also blindly follows tjhe RPI (without telling anyone that's how he does it) or even have his own formula or computer system...what matters is ultimately the votes that a given team gets at a given ballot...not the rationale that each voter followed to arrive at his votes.

You can find further information at the ncaa site.

 

[willycat]

Back to the original subject, I would like to see the Cats schedule home games against some mid-major locals like Bradley, Loyola, St Louis and NIU, instead of the likes of Miss.Valley St. and Houston Baptist. In a couple of years then step up to scheduling the likes of Marquette, Missouri and TSISB.

 

[Noah121]

I agree: the 'Cats should play against more local-ish MAC or Summit teams, and avoid the SWAC.

Although recently, we haven't seen UTPA on the schedule like we used to each year.