Schedule

[CatFan/1947]

when is the b-ball schedule coming out?

[psax889906]

I hope it's soon... I wanna know when, where and who is going to receive some beatdowns at the hands of the 'Cats this year!!!

[bcross]

There's two other non-conference games that I can't remember or haven't heard yet.

Nov. 18 vs. Toledo
Nov. 23 Maui/Vanderbilt
Nov. 24 Maui/TBD
Nov. 25 Maui/TBD
Dec. 10 vs. Miami (OH)
Dec. 13 @ Xavier
Dec. 16 @ UAB
Dec. 19 vs. Lipscomb
Dec. 22 vs. Winthrop
Dec. 26 vs. CS Bakersfield

[subflea]

It should be released soon. Last year it was released on September 4th.

[red_n_black_attack]

Last I heard, the difficulty is that some of our conference foes share an arena with NBA teams. The non-conference schedule is pretty much set, just awaiting finalization of the conference schedule for exact dates/times.

[columbus_bearcat]

There's two other non-conference games that I can't remember or haven't heard yet.

Nov. 18 vs. Toledo
Nov. 23 Maui/Vanderbilt
Nov. 24 Maui/TBD
Nov. 25 Maui/TBD
Dec. 10 vs. Miami (OH)
Dec. 13 @ Xavier
Dec. 16 @ UAB
Dec. 19 vs. Lipscomb
Dec. 22 vs. Winthrop
Dec. 26 vs. CS Bakersfield

I think I also read we are playing Prairie View A&M before Maui also, possibly on 11/16.

[Lobot]

I think I also read we are playing Prairie View A&M before Maui also, possibly on 11/16.

That game should help our SOS. :rolleyes: Lance can outscore that team by himself. Maybe DV too.

[psax889906]

That game should help our SOS. :rolleyes: Lance can outscore that team by himself. Maybe DV too.

Are we seriously going to have this argument sparked again?... Jesus H...

[BearcatAlum1]

Believe it or not, we actually have a decent non-con this year.

@UAB, Vandy, Maui/TBD, Maui/TBD, Xavier (OH) and Miami (OH).

Those 3 Maui games could very well be against NCAA teams and 2 will be ranked inside the top 25 (if not 3).

Xavier will "most likely" be ranked in the top 25.

That's the possibility (and strong liklihood) that 4 of our 14 (or so) non-conference games are against ranked opponents. That isn't too shabby considering we're an unranked team.

It's not like we're Syracuse. The 'Cuse rarely plays more than one or two away games in the non-con, and those are against pushovers. Also, the 'Cuse hardly ever play any teams ranked in the top 25 before the start of BigEast play.

[Lobot]

Are we seriously going to have this argument sparked again?... Jesus H...

Sarcasm.......

[shaunsimpson]

THere needs to be an accepted symble or font for sarcasm.

[jon b]

I read once that there should be no sarcasm on the internet.

[Bearcat Fan Since 1958]

THere needs to be an accepted symble or font for sarcasm.

Behind the words, either (dws) or (dwes) is Internet protocol for Sarcasm.

[psax889906]

Sarcasm.......

I apologize as I considered that angle but your intent was unclear to me... and I've had it with the many that have blasted our OOC schedule... it's perfectly fine and UC's SOS will be in the 25-30 range this year if I had to guess...

[Bu7ch]

Behind the words, either (dws) or (dwes) is Internet protocol for Sarcasm.

It's actually "/s" (w/o quotes)...it's a play on html

[Boosilini]

I apologize as I considered that angle but your intent was unclear to me... and I've had it with the many that have blasted our OOC schedule... it's perfectly fine and UC's SOS will be in the 25-30 range this year if I had to guess...

Yeah I have,along with others..and i understand thats a part of NCAA bball..and that SOS will drop down to the lower teens by Feb.just because of conf. play and We all know alot of teams just wont play us OOC.But,there are alot who will!The only thing i hate about college hoops is there are guaranteed wins.....

Does anyone know if Fox 19 is picking up any games this year?
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[jon b]

Fox Sports has rights to UC BBall, not Fox 19. So no Bearcat Bounce.

[shaunsimpson]

http://www.gobearcats.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/090209aaa.html
pdf: http://www.gobearcats.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/cinn/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/0910nonconf

Day Date Opponent T elevision T ime
Mon. Nov. 16 P rairie View A&M T BA
Wed. Nov. 18 T oledo T BA
Maui Invitational
Mon. Nov. 23 Vanderbilt TBA
Tue. Nov. 24 Maryland or Chaminade TBA
Wed. Nov. 25 Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin, or Gonzaga TBA
Tue. Dec. 1 Texas Southern TBA
Thurs. Dec. 10 Miami (OH) — U.S. Bank Arena E SPN2 T BA
Sun. Dec. 13 at Xavier TBA
Wed. Dec. 16 at UAB TBA
Sat. Dec. 19 L ipscomb T BA
Tue. Dec. 22 Winthrop T BA
TBA T BA Cal State Bakersfield T BA

[GoBearcats31]

That should be no worse than 10-2, plus a 10-8 or better Big East run = is a solid 20-win year but we'll need some big victories in conference if we can't win Maui and lose to maybe Xavier.

[aronius]

I think the overall strength of schedule is right about where it should be for a Big East team. Unfortunately ALL the decent games are road games. I'll be there to watch the Cats roll over Lipscomb and Texas Southern but good luck selling tickets to the normal fan. I'm sure the home games in the Big East schedule will make up for it but it's depressing to not have 1 meaningful home game before Jan.

[psax889906]

How is Winthrop shaping up?... They have proven to be a dangerous team over the past 5 years or so... could be an easy game to overlook if the 'Cats aren't careful...

[bearcatbret]

This is a much different team this year. We have a couple of players who could take over the entire game by themselves. I think we win the ones that we should and I hope that we win the ones that are borderline (x of ohio, etc.)

[Scheids21]

Winthrop is no longer a sleeper. They have proven over the last few years that they are consistent winner. If UC overlooks them, that is a bad sign.

[McMickenKid]

Thats a pretty weak schedule, IMO. Lets be honest guys, we could potentially not face a single Top 25 team. Vandy and Maryland are middle of the pack to bottom half teams in their conference. X is the strongest game and their a borderline top 25 team. Someone please convince me why this isn't cupcake city.

[Cats4Ever]

From Lance's blog on the schedule:

UC non-conference schedule breakdown
Opponent, record last year and RPI
Prairie View AM 13-16 (274)
Toledo 6-25 (317)
Texas Southern 7-25 (323)
Miami 17-13 (80) at US Bank Arena
at Xavier 25-7 (17)
at UAB 22-11 (46)
Lipscomb 15-14 (236)
Winthrop 10-19 (255)
Cal St Bakerfield 8-20 (302)
Maui Invitational includes: Vandy 19-12 (95), then Maryland or Chaminade, and then Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin or Gonzaga

Home schedule should be easy wins - tougher games on the road. Maui invite is a strong test.

[BearcatRob33]

Seriously? The game against Miami is being played at US Bank Arena again? I figured since UC will be going to Oxford, the game would now be played in the shoe (since the way it was before, playing at US Bank Arena was considered to be neutral). That's disheartening.

[Lobot]

I thought we were done with US Bank Arena totally. What changed?

[franzeal]

*sighs at US Bank Arena*

What a horrible venue.

[CatsClaw]

That's not a bad schedule considering where we are in our development. That gives us a legitimate chance to get 20+ wins and an NCAA Tournament berth. Cincinnati has to beat Vanderbilt so we can get a crack at Maryland. The ideal situation would be to beat Vandy and Maryland and get a chance to beat Arizona or Gonzaga.

[CatsClaw]

Thats a pretty weak schedule, IMO. Lets be honest guys, we could potentially not face a single Top 25 team. Vandy and Maryland are middle of the pack to bottom half teams in their conference. X is the strongest game and their a borderline top 25 team. Someone please convince me why this isn't cupcake city.

Middle of the pack or not, Maryland won 21 games and lost in the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament. That is a pretty good team in my eyes. Vandy won 19 games last year. And that one year after winning 26 games and being a #4 seed in the NCAA Tournament. As for Xavier being a borderline Top 25 team they're coming off a Sweet 16 appearance and the year before that and Elite Eight run. Heck, not only does most places have Xavier in their Top 25 a lot of people have them in their Top 20, and some even in the Top 15 knocking on the door of the Top 10 (Fox has them at #11) I don't know why people have to exaggerate things just to try and prove a schedule is weak.

[CincyEngGrad02]

Winning 21 games does not impress me one bit when teams play 31+ games a year.

[joe]

I read once that there should be no sarcasm on the internet.

Hey Jon! Good to see you, hope all is well on your end.

I don't miss C-USA - but I do in a way miss the banter with those
guys on the newsgroup.;)

There were some pretty epic threads back then...lol...Keith even
"got a little loose" back in the day.:D

gregg

[Bearcat Fan Since 1958]

http://www.gobearcats.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/090209aaa.html
pdf: http://www.gobearcats.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/cinn/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/0910nonconf

Day Date Opponent T elevision T ime
Mon. Nov. 16 P rairie View A&M T BA
Wed. Nov. 18 T oledo T BA
Maui Invitational
Mon. Nov. 23 Vanderbilt TBA
Tue. Nov. 24 Maryland or Chaminade TBA
Wed. Nov. 25 Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin, or Gonzaga TBA
Tue. Dec. 1 Texas Southern TBA
Thurs. Dec. 10 Miami (OH) — U.S. Bank Arena E SPN2 T BA
Sun. Dec. 13 at Xavier TBA
Wed. Dec. 16 at UAB TBA
Sat. Dec. 19 L ipscomb T BA
Tue. Dec. 22 Winthrop T BA
TBA T BA Cal State Bakersfield T BA

1 or 2 L in Maui, 1 or 2 L among the rest, but 8 or 9 W (or better).

[cincycpaw]

While overall the OOS may not look that bad...it certainly looks like a big pile of dung to a season ticket holder.

Not 1 solid home game.

The conference season will make up for that though I guess.

[aronius]

Looking at the schedule again there are some serious RPI killer games on there. Prairie View, Toledo, Texas Southern, Lipscomb, Winthrop, and Cal St. Bakersfield will most likely all be 200 RPI or worse. I can see playing a few of those walk through games but 6 is terrible.

[Bearcat Cafe]

While overall the OOS may not look that bad...it certainly looks like a big pile of dung to a season ticket holder.

Not 1 solid home game.

The conference season will make up for that though I guess.

I'd say so when it includes UCONN, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pitt, Syracuse, & Villanova.

[steveocincy]

Looking at the schedule again there are some serious RPI killer games on there. Prairie View, Toledo, Texas Southern, Lipscomb, Winthrop, and Cal St. Bakersfield will most likely all be 200 RPI or worse. I can see playing a few of those walk through games but 6 is terrible.

I agree with this. The thing that the prior coach was able to do was schedule the cupcake games with an eye towards maintaining a solid strength of schedule. When you looked at those schedules, it was easy for people to say it was weak, but the computers liked it because the weak teams were ones that played strong schedules and did well enough in their conferences to have decent RPI's. Six teams with RPI's above 200 (per last years RPI) will hurt our overall strength of schedule, and hurt with seeding somewhat (assuming a trip to the NCAA's).

[ZCat]

Fox Sports has rights to UC BBall, not Fox 19. So no Bearcat Bounce.

Any info re any carriers for other games...I know one year there were some on ONN, etc. I hope to watch more this year. Last year I got Fox Sports Cincinnati and still some were not on. Dish Network in disappointed in general.
ZCat

[ZCat]

Hey Jon! Good to see you, hope all is well on your end.

I don't miss C-USA - but I do in a way miss the banter with those
guys on the newsgroup.;)

There were some pretty epic threads back then...lol...Keith even
"got a little loose" back in the day.:D

gregg

Yeah back in the day you could count on several informative Richard Kandell, Mike, Jon, et al replies/day.
Zahid

[joe]

Yeah back in the day you could count on several informative Richard Kandell, Mike, Jon, et al replies/day.
Zahid

Hey Zahid,
Yeah, on usenet Jon and Keith and myself would really
yank on those guys, there was some pretty good threads
all in fun. In a way it was kind of funny because those
other posters from other schools "really" didn't like UC
and Huggs much.

But without UC and Huggins too hate they didn't have much of
a newsgroup. Every now and then Keith would venture off to the
rec.sport.basketball.college and really rile them up, of course I was
the main antagonist in there. Good times. I don't post in there anymore
but I read it every now and then and someone posted just recently that
they longed for the days of me and some of the UK/Duke/UNC posters going
at it because the group isn't nothing like it used to be.

Maybe Mick can bring the program back to what it used to be, but until
then it isn't worth posting in there. Maybe one day it will.:cool:

gregg

[Lobot]

According to the Seton Hall article in the links section, the Big East Schedule should be released today.

[Lobot]

Nov. 16 vs. Prairie View A&M
Nov. 18 vs. Toledo
Maui Invitational
Nov. 23 vs. Vanderbilt
Nov. 24 vs. Maryland or Chaminade
Nov. 25 vs. Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin or Gonzaga
Dec. 1 vs. Texas Southern
Dec. 10 vs. Miami University (at U.S. Ban Arena)
Dec. 13 at Xavier
Dec. 16 at UAB
Dec. 19 vs. Lipscomb
Dec. 22 vs. Winthrop
Dec. 30 vs. Connecticut
Jan. 2 at Rutgers
Jan. 4 vs. Pittsburgh
Jan. 6 vs. Cal State Bakersfield
Jan. 9 at Seton Hall
Jan. 13 at St. John's (at Madison Square Garden)
Jan. 16 vs. Notre Dame
Jan. 20 vs. USF
Jan. 24 at Louisville
Jan. 30 vs. Providence
Feb. 4 at Notre Dame
Feb. 7 vs. Syracuse
Feb. 13 at Connecticut
Feb. 16 at USF
Feb. 21 vs. Marquette
Feb. 24 vs. DePaul
Feb. 27 at West Virginia
March 2 vs. Villanova
March 6 at Georgetown

[Lobot]

Look at the dates Starting Dec 30. Lots of games in a short time span.

[psax889906]

The Crosstown shootout is on ESPNU... wtf.

[bearcatbret]

Should be around 20-9 before the BEast Tourney.

[CincyEngGrad02]

Should be around 20-9 before the BEast Tourney.

pshhhhh how about 27-2

[GoCats1994]

Q: Which one of these things don't belong?

A: Jan. 6 vs. Cal State Bakersfield

where did this game come from??? Play 3 BE games, and then this game?????????

[JasonS]

At least we get to play Rutgers at MSG and not their crappy little high school gym style "arena."

[columbus_bearcat]

At least we get to play Rutgers at MSG and not their crappy little high school gym style "arena."

I think you mean St. John's. Had me confused for a second. Why would we play Rutgers at MSG? :confused:

[Cats4Ever]

Look at the dates Starting Dec 30. Lots of games in a short time span.

Pray no one gets hurt in December. Seems like a game every 2 or 3 days. Well, Bakersfield is more like a scrimmage game...................................

Still - they better be playing their best ball in January.

[Kindog202]

Pray no one gets hurt in December. Seems like a game every 2 or 3 days. Well, Bakersfield is more like a scrimmage game...................................

Still - they better be playing their best ball in January.

December?? After the last 2 years, I'm more worried about someone getting hurt in October than in December.

[Eastside_J]

At least we get to play Rutgers at MSG and not their crappy little high school gym style "arena."

Not such a good deal for Rutgers IMO. I would guess there would be as many or more people there to see Stevenson as there to see Rutgers.

[JasonS]

I think you mean St. John's. Had me confused for a second. Why would we play Rutgers at MSG? :confused:

Sorry, I did mean St. Johns. I was a little confused...still had Rutgers on the brain from football. Sorry for the confusion.

[Bearcat Cafe]

Does UC ever get an easy game to start the BE schedule? Seems like every year we start off against a team that is predicted to finish in the top 2 or 3 in the conference.

[Bearcats_Rule]

There really is not an easy opening game in the BEast... just some easier than others. I do agree though... It will be a good gauge of where we are opening up against them. They should be a bit easier to beat compared to last year which is cool!