Basketball Non-Conference schedule released
Our basketball non-conference schedule has been released, and it's certainly less exciting for season ticket holders, although we have a chance to play duke, kansas, and ucla in maui: (RPI courtesy umhoops.com)
- Friday, Nov. 4 – Wayne State (Exh.)
- Friday, Nov. 11 – Ferris State (D2)
- Monday, Nov. 14 – Towson (Maui mainland game) (292)
- Thursday, Nov. 17 – Western Illinois (336)
- Monday, Nov. 21-23 - Maui TBD [Tournament features Duke, Kansas, Memphis, Georgetown, Tennessee, UCLA and Chaminade]
- Wednesday, Nov. 30 – at Virginia (B10/ACC Challenge) (138)
- Saturday, Dec. 3 – Iowa State (140)
- Saturday, Dec. 10 - vs. Oakland (Palace of Auburn Hills) (57)
- Tuesday, Dec. 13 - Arkansas-Pine Bluff (327)
- Saturday, Dec. 17 – Alabama A&M (307)
- Thursday, Dec. 22 – Bradley (229)
- Saturday, Jan. 21 – at Arkansas (130)
http://www.umhoops.com/2011/08/01/michigan-announces-2011-12-non-conference-schedule/
More dates for the There are.. posts? Or is that exclusively football?
No real powerhouses, like you said, but the Maui Invitational should (hopefully) be fun. If we can make a statement there, it should be a good season
Three 300+ RPI teams? I hope those teams turn out to be a little better than that. They could be a drag on our strength of schedule.
They will, but everyone needs bodybag games. As long as you win them and notch up good wins in Maui and in the conference, there shouldn't be anything to worry about.
If we take care of business in conference like we should it won't matter.
Arkansas, Iowa State, Bradley, and UVA have good "name recognition" even if they may not be good teams. Add Oakland coming off their great season (and yes, they won't be nearly as good next year but people in Topeka and NYC don't recognize that when the score flashes on the ESPN ticker)
Add a couple legit games in Maui and I'd argue that our schedule will be, on paper, pretty tough compared to most teams.
First, we drew a lower "name-recognition" team in VA for the B1G/ACC, only GT and Wake have less cache in that conference and several years ago they were two very solid programs.
Other than the Maui Invite, we don't have any games of real intrigue. Oakland is the only team below 100 RPI--but at 57, I'd say a 130 Arkansas team could be a just as big of a "name-recognition" win for Mich... and that's not saying much.
We're missing a Duke, Kansas, ND, UCONN, UCLA... which wouldn't be so bad if we had a better ACC team in the challenge.
Luckily, it looks like we'll get at least 2 quality, possibly elite, match-ups in Maui... unless we draw Chaminade.
We SHOULD beat everyone on the schedule outside of the tournament, but we'll prolly lose 1--2 if we are struggling. It'll either be 1-2 or 2-1 in Maui and 10-1 or 9-2 on the mainland...
Optimistically, I'm thinking 11-3... but 10-4 seems like a better guess with the team likely trying to adjust with losing Morris.
Virginia might not be the team we wanted to draw in this challenge but if I recall last years preseason polls and predictions had UCONN at the bottom of the big east not going say that UVA is in anyway as good as UCONN but just don't look down on a team from a big conference, yes we will beat them but they could go on one hell of a run in the acc and boost that RPI rating just some food for thought!!
Iowa State could actually be a surprise team this year. They were last in the Big 12 in 2010-11, but only had ~7 scholarship players with the coaching change. They have some solid transfers eligible this year - Chris Allen (from Sparty), Royce White (a Rivals 5* in 2009, transferred from Minnesota), Anthony Booker (#43 HS player in 2008, again Rivals), and Chris Babb from Penn State. I guess what I'm getting at is they could reach that top 100 RPI level and a solid win for us, or at least I'm hoping so.
There are at least four and maybe six tough games out of thirteen that count. With seven auto-wins, and a 3-3 split of the tougher games, the Wolverines would be 10-3 going into Big Ten play. The downside is that they could be 7-6 if they struggle. I'm guessing 9-4.
Who are the "tough" teams you have us losing to?
I'm not seeing it either. We can only lose once in Maui, right?
I'm not sure about that. I think there's a loser's bracket.
My mistake. There is, and it looks like we could lose three times.
http://www.mauiinvitational.com/assets/bracket/2010%20MIT%20Bracket.pdf
Do we know when Michigan's allotment of road game tickets goes on sale? Specifically the UVA game.
Other than tix for parents, there is no away allotment for basketball. Contact UVA for tix.
Oh, thanks for the info. It's not even remotely hard to get tickets to UVA sporting events from what I've read, just wanted to sit in "the Michigan section" if such a thing existed.
Home nonconference schedule may be worst I've ever seen.
cant wait for the season
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:57 AM ^
Even without Darius, I'm still pumped for Michigan Basketball to start. I am very interested in buying season tickets this year and I was wondering about how much they usually cost per seat? Does anybody remember how much they were last year?