2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule
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I am not focusing on cost. I am focusing on our schedule and a good way to get 2 majors on the schedule. If we play back to back, with a day off in between, we only need a small window to make both games happen. If we try to find two separate games spread out, we now need two windows to make 2 games happen. I really don't care how we get them or when we play them. It just needs to happen.
Yeah, I just think finding two games in a single window is even tougher than two games on separate dates.
Looks like they were able to check off quite a few boxes. Nice work by the American staff.
If we haven't bought into the road only approach at majors yet, it is long overdue. The A-10 is not what it used to be, and we can't expect to get even 2 for 1s with majors right now. Just play true road games like American is doing.
Right, Auburn was signed over the summer last year, be patient and let miracles happen.
SLU with the sort of matchup we need to be going after if the big boys won't play. Similarly, Loyola is playing San Francisco at Chase Center.
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San Francisco Welcomes Loyola Chicago, Sacramento State for Annual USF Legacy at Chase Center - University of San Francisco Athletics
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Chase Center announced today that the venue will host the annual USF Legacy, the college basketball double-header featuring the University
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I like the men's and women's doubleheader concept. With our women's team being so good lately - I wish UR would try to this out, and maybe entice even more fans to the women's game.
Looks like University of New Haven's firstever d1 game is pretty solid.
Good thing moon is such good buddies with Rhoades.
Good thing moon is such good buddies with Rhoades.
It wouldn't be sensible to schedule a home and home with NC State, neutral site games with Utah State and Clemson, or a home and home with New Mexico and play in an MTE like Battle for Atlantis.
Nothing to gain, too much to lose.
Nothing to gain, too much to lose.
I wonder if UR reaches our to Penn State. With Rhoades being the coach there now, I am sure he would like to get to the Virginia area every once in a while just for personal reasons. Don't see why a home and home couldn't be discussed with them. Plus - at this point, we would be an easier win than playing VCU.
Penn State usually plays a pretty non-descript OOC. They aren't good enough to get the neutral site games against high quality BCS program, they play a lot of garbage teams. I'd think their would be an opportunity for us with them especially with the Rhodes-Mooney connections.
That's part of my reason for posting this, we heard how they went way back together to roots in PA, and everything, but no game for us. Our coach doesn't seem to have the gravitas or charisma to leverage those relationships to games on the court as often as one would hope or expect.
At this point I would be find playing PSU at their place 3 straight years in hopes of getting a good game on the schedule. They were 66 in the NET last year with a 16-15 record. Pretty safe to assume they will almost always be a top 100 NET team.
Yeah, I do think we have a good chance of getting a home game with them, but go up to Happy Valley and play a game. They are tough at home but Bryce Jordan is no Beaver Stadium. The basketball arena is typically half empty unless it is a really big game.
For a guy with all of Mooney's supposed connections as a 20 plus year D-1 head coach he never seems to be able to leverage any of them for any benefit for our program.
Big 10 and SEC schools are pretty much guaranteed to be Top 100, unless they are just abjectly terrible.
would the Spiders be a quad 4 opponent based on last year’s record?
If so, should’t we be about to secure P5 games like this murderers row of Q4s?
Go Spiders!
Rocco said Georgia's 2025-26 OOC schedule includes eight "projected" Quad 4 opponents.
were definitely a Quad 4 last year, but I'm hoping we're not projected to be Quad 4 this season ... but who knows?
I will imagine this is just another reason for P5 teams to stay away from up and down mid-majors like us because with the portal, you never know what we are going to be. Look at the last 2 years. 1 year - we win the A10 regular season (after a horrible OOC), and then next year we are a quad 4 team with just 10 wins. In the past - without all the transfers, you could predict somewhat how good a team might be by looking at returners - team X won 19 games last year, but returns the entire starting 5, you probably feel pretty good about them. Team Y won 10 games last year, and only return 1 player - probably not looking good. So unless your a mid-major that just keeps on winning year in and out (ala VCU) - it might be even harder to secure games now with the portal, cause we could be a Quad 4 win, we would be a Quad 2 upset, who knows.
I doubt a high major concerns themselves with finding high quality mid-majors to fill out their schedule.
their SOS will be plenty tough based on their in-conference games.
so schedule crappy teams for easy wins OOC while you gel ... and springle in some high major neutral site games that won't hurt you to lose. and add a good MTE. that formula works.
yes, Dayton will get their Cinci game. but some HM's just don't want good mid major games. certainly not many of those games.
their SOS will be plenty tough based on their in-conference games.
so schedule crappy teams for easy wins OOC while you gel ... and springle in some high major neutral site games that won't hurt you to lose. and add a good MTE. that formula works.
yes, Dayton will get their Cinci game. but some HM's just don't want good mid major games. certainly not many of those games.
Get ready for our return game at Mount Olive.
Don't forget Randolph-Macon is still awaiting their home game from the 2019-20 season.
Just happened to be getting in the car and heard our esteemed leader on the vcu radio station (910) doing a long interview. Glad I hadn't started driving yet because I probably would have crashed through a building when I heard him say: "I think I did a really poor job coaching the team" when the host asked him what he learned from last season.
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