Other than blue blood schools, who want more conference foes in to inflate their self worth, I think a lot of CBB fans would like to see more Cinderellas in the dance. 

Power 5's don't want to schedule the mid majors, then poo poo these same mid majors "Who have you played?"

Godukes2017 wrote:

JakeTheSnake wrote:

Other than blue blood schools, who want more conference foes in to inflate their self worth, I think a lot of CBB fans would like to see more Cinderellas in the dance. 

Power 5's don't want to schedule the mid majors, then poo poo these same mid majors "Who have you played?"

We willingly choose not play any power 5 teams this year. Hurts because now it’s always going to be “you played no one” no matter the record outcome

I don't think it hurts us this year, because honestly, we're not really of at large caliber yet. Maybe the team will shock me by sweeping Dayton, Bona, and VCU on the road to actually get in the mix, but I'm not holding my breath for that. P5 games on the road would likely have been losses this year. I think we scheduled very smartly for what we have. Next year is a different story. That's the year we've been building towards, and we have to schedule accordingly. If we can't snag a couple of wins against mid level P5s, or good mid majors, then we don't deserve to be considered for a bid. Can we get into a preseason tourney that has some actual good teams next year? To me, this is a must, as it gives you a shot at good teams on a neutral court.
 

Godukes2017 wrote:

duq81 wrote:

Godukes2017 wrote:

We willingly choose not play any power 5 teams this year. Hurts because now it’s always going to be “you played no one” no matter the record outcome

I don't think it hurts us this year, because honestly, we're not really of at large caliber yet. Maybe the team will shock me by sweeping Dayton, Bona, and VCU on the road to actually get in the mix, but I'm not holding my breath for that. P5 games on the road would likely have been losses this year. I think we scheduled very smartly for what we have. Next year is a different story. That's the year we've been building towards, and we have to schedule accordingly. If we can't snag a couple of wins against mid level P5s, or good mid majors, then we don't deserve to be considered for a bid. Can we get into a preseason tourney that has some actual good teams next year? To me, this is a must, as it gives you a shot at good teams on a neutral court.
 

I agree with this. I think playing more power 5 teams though in the past since Dambrot has came would’ve helped with recruiting. If we had power 5s and still lost it would look better than losing to Cornell or some other cake games we gave up. If I’m wrong tel me but I always thought that since Dambrot got here. Just more power 5s on schedule it will help.

We really haven't lost to many cupcakes under Dambrot. What makes you look good is a good record. Playing a tougher schedule might have made us 14-18 in year one, and 17-15 last year. maybe we'd only be 16-8 this year. No one cares who you lost to, it's who you beat that counts. Until we're ready to beat some of those better teams, I'm more than cool with the way we've scheduled. Hopefully, next year we'll be confident enough to upgrade the schedule a bit.

DennisC91 wrote:

There were media reports that we did try to schedule road games against power conference teams this year but they wouldn't play us. Only Pitt was mentioned by name. 

This is correct. It's not for lack of trying that no impressive teams were on the schedule OOC. No one was returning Harper's calls