Thats a rough and crass crowd down there.   Will certainly bump up our RPI when we beat them.

San Jose had a NET of 287 last year, which is beyond horrible for a team in a top 10 conference. California Baptist is a low major, so despite their good record, their NET was only 200. Obviously these will both be must win games. This was obviously set up for Maryland. Two cupcakes, and one top 100 team that doesn't appear to be TOO dangerous. Maryland won't be as good as they were this year, so it's a pretty good spot for us. At worst, it's a tier 1 game, so at the very least, it'll boost our sos. San Jose returns most of it's team, so let's hope they can improve enough to not be a total anchor on our schedule.

This is great news!!!! Super excited and hope to attend on November 11th

So the 2020-21 schedule so far:

11/16: vs. Cal Baptist
11/18: vs. San Jose State
11/22: at Maryland
12/5: at Wyoming

I'm thinking the Pitt game will be played early in the week of November 30 though they may need to wait until the Penguins schedule is finalized, which likely wouldn't be until June. Assuming of course there will actually be fans at any of these games. 

duq81 wrote:

Man, it's nice to play teams from a good league like the Mountain West, but Wyoming, and San Jose were the worst teams in that league. Both were terrible. Add in Cal Baptist, which was a good team in a very weak league, and we definitely will need to add some meat to that schedule if we don't want to have to win 25-26 games to get an NCAA bid.

I think both MWC teams will both be keeping pretty much their entire roster, unless the new coach hired by Wyoming wants to clean the house which I'm not sure exactly what has been happening over there in Wyoming. They did have a nice little run in the MWC tournament this year... one of the few post season tourneys that completed. Jeff Linder is the new coach of Wyoming and he comes from Northern Colorado, pretty sure the past few seasons his team has consistently been first in D1 in 3pt defense %

 

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WashPaRick wrote:

BluffHunter wrote:

duq81 wrote:

Man, it's nice to play teams from a good league like the Mountain West, but Wyoming, and San Jose were the worst teams in that league. Both were terrible. Add in Cal Baptist, which was a good team in a very weak league, and we definitely will need to add some meat to that schedule if we don't want to have to win 25-26 games to get an NCAA bid.

I think both MWC teams will both be keeping pretty much their entire roster, unless the new coach hired by Wyoming wants to clean the house which I'm not sure exactly what has been happening over there in Wyoming. They did have a nice little run in the MWC tournament this year... one of the few post season tourneys that completed. Jeff Linder is the new coach of Wyoming and he comes from Northern Colorado, pretty sure the past few seasons his team has consistently been first in D1 in 3pt defense %

 

Wyoming has 4 in the transfer portal.

With a coaching change, that's no surprise. They'll be horrible. We certainly can't afford to lose to any of those teams.