CLK wrote:

Matt Maisel ‏@Matt_Maisel St. Francis mens basketball announces non-conf schedule -- featured home games w/ Duquesne, Navy (& Ed DeChellis), and Mount Aloysius

Good to see the Frankies back on the schedule.  I would like to see one of our Dukes do a Guziak repeat this year. 

I also saw last week where we have an away game with UMass Lowell

Matt Langone ‏@MattLangone 24 May UMass Lowell men's hoop has also solidified contracts to host non-league games against Duquesne, Brown and Dartmouth next season.

I guess I'll have to dust off my, "Back to the Woods" chant
 

duq81 wrote:

CLK wrote:

Matt Maisel ‏@Matt_Maisel St. Francis mens basketball announces non-conf schedule -- featured home games w/ Duquesne, Navy (& Ed DeChellis), and Mount Aloysius

Good to see the Frankies back on the schedule.  I would like to see one of our Dukes do a Guziak repeat this year. 

I also saw last week where we have an away game with UMass Lowell

Matt Langone ‏@MattLangone 24 May UMass Lowell men's hoop has also solidified contracts to host non-league games against Duquesne, Brown and Dartmouth next season.

After the stunt they pulled a few years ago, there is no way they should ever get a home game vs us again, and why on earth are we playing UMass-Lowell on the road? This is pissing me off.

Please enlighten me about the stunt ?
 

Never heard of UMass-Lowell. I assume it is a branch campus of UMass. Does anyone know anything about them?

Dukes go "On The Road" to Lowell MA the birthplace of Jack Kerouac.

According to Steve on the Yuku board, it's The Terriers of SF(NY), not the Red Flash. That makes more sense if Ferry would like to recruit in NYC.

CLK wrote:

Steve is wrong.! It is the Frankies.

http://sfuathletics.com/news/2013/5/29/MBB_0529133044.aspx
 

Ugh!

Oops. I thought the Red Flash were NY.

Duquesne played the Loretto, PA guys every year way back when.

This game is probably better than some of the other pre-conference stuff we have seen the last few years. SFU Is scheduling non-con D1 games and so is apparently trying to bring back what was a good small college program from decades ago.

Maybe they will succeed while DU gets back up the ramp at the mid-major level.

ElDuque wrote:

The NY St. Francis program is the Terriors, I think. Little foo-foo dogs. Great choice for a mascot.

I'm still preplexed by UMass-Lowell. How many UMassholes do we need to play? And a DII program? What is up with that?

The women's team is supposedly playing some big-time team.

ED, terriers are anything but "little foo-foo dogs. They are extremely game, and include such monsters as the huge Airedale, and of course the baddest dogs on the planet, the various members of the Pit Bull Terrier family.

Who you calling a foo-foo dog? Bet you won't say it to my face!

Last edited by duq81 (5/30/2013 5:44 pm)

townsonkid wrote:

UMass-Lowell's hockey team was here for the Frozen Four.
Irish Micky Ward is from Lowell.
Aerosmith sings of Lowell.

thats about all I know.

You could be D1 in hockey and D2 in other sports.  That is how they get more teams to compete in hockey.   

Someone on Yuku stated they are moving to the America East conference, hence they're scheduling of D1 opponents.
 

Last edited by duqkurt (5/30/2013 12:03 pm)

rogabee wrote:

That was me duqkurt.  UMass-Lowell is joining the America East and will be a D1 opponent.

Given they were 2 games under 500 in a D2 conference, it sure looks like a cupcake on paper regardless.  The only thing is it will count against our RPI SOS and also give us a D1 win (hopefully).

Thanks.  Don't schools usually transition that move by playing some D1 opponents prior to making the jump.   They played none last year.  
 

One other thing about the Tsongas Center, you won't believe how high the price of food and drink is at the concession center.  I thought the Redox were expensive!  Nevertheless, this is a perfect game, if on a weekend, for Duquesne's alumni department to sponsor a get-together for Duquesne fans prior to the game.  Certainly there are scads of Duquesne graduates in Boston.  This would be the perfect time to show those fans the "new look" Duquesne players.  We need to get Duquesne fans to the away games.  Let's go Duquesne (after we enjoy summer).