Non-Con schedule out
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Ooooh-weee... Maui.
Colorado will join Auburn, Dayton, Iowa State, Memphis, Michigan State, North Carolina and 2023 NCAA champion UConn in its second trip to the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. The Buffaloes played in the 2009 event with a 1-2 record. Colorado had narrow losses to Gonzaga (76-72) and Arizona (91-87, in overtime) before a 73-58 win over Chaminade.
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Colorado will join Auburn, Dayton, Iowa State, Memphis, Michigan State, North Carolina and 2023 NCAA champion UConn in its second trip to the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. The Buffaloes played in the 2009 event with a 1-2 record. Colorado had narrow losses to Gonzaga (76-72) and Arizona (91-87, in overtime) before a 73-58 win over Chaminade.
Tickets For 2024 Maui Invitational Open Feb. 23 - University of Colorado Athletics
BOULDER – Tickets for the 2024 Maui Jim Maui Invitational will go on-sale to the public on Friday, Feb. 23, at mauiinvitational.com .
Minus Maui and Marquette, this is pure garbage again. We should be better than this ****.
Ya it garbage, but it'll be fine.
What if they play at Hilton South in the non-con for a game.
5 of 11 games will be Q1 games. It's fine.
Agree theres a coup.e warm up games in there but Maui, Marquette and yes Iowa will be good games to get us ready for conference play. Like it
Cool, we shouldn't be playing bottom of the barrell teams anymore. The orher 6 are absolute trash. A cuople fine but 6 is a joke.
Half the top 10 will be big 12 anyway so conference play is going to be insane enough. We have earned some cupcakes.
If they are ranked top 5 to begin the season the strength of schedule shouldn't matter as much.
We're also replacing 2 noncon games with big 12 games. Our SOS takes a notch up just because of that, even if that won't show in the (idiotic) NCSOS metric.
Not every game needs to be a tough one. You want a few warm up games, and you need to fill out the home schedule too. Home and homes naturally mean you lose a home game either now or in the future. Already losing net 1 home game to going to a 20 game conference schedule, that makes it even harder to schedule noncon home and homes.
This schedule makes total sense to me:
A few games to get into the swing of things work out some kinks.
Maui and Marquette which will provide some tough competition.
A game to work out kinks after that stretch, to get a 'get right' if necessary.
@iowa, which can always be a challenge even if they're down
A couple Easy games right before and after finals to to get ready for conference play
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Plus how do we know staff hasn't tried to get another power 5 program at home but they want a 2 for 1 type deal.
Might not be popular, but I'd still rather play Drake and UNI than Morgan State or IU Indy.
We don't. I couldnt care less if you agree with me, watching us pound teams in the 300's does nothing for me. Sure the Big 12 will make up for it, their is a reason we were the last 2 seed last year.
I understand where your coming from. Problem with last year was our holiday tournament field was weak and we got crappy DePaul in big east challenge.
Both those situations are upgraded this year.
Yep. Almost everyone plays at least a few terrible teams that they slap around. You have to fill out a home schedule.
31 maximum games. (28+MTE)
10 away games from the big 12. 3 neutral games. At iowa.
This leaves you 17 home games, which is about what Iowa State wants (and taking a home and home deal reduces that in the future). 10 of those are big 12 games. One is Marquette.
So you're down to 6 games ISU really has in its control. Now look at where they fit in the schedule:
Half of those are very early in the season. Most P5 teams want to be warming up vs bad competition those first few games. Getting another P5 team to come in there is going to be difficult as they don't want to be playing a tough game any more than we do.
One of them is in between a tough 4-game stretch (Maui\Marquette) and Iowa. It makes sense scheduling-wise to catch a breather.
The last 2 bookend finals week. Never a time you really want to be scheduling anything tough and a great way to see a random upset. Plus there's little value in forking out money to get fans a better game a couple days before christmas when people have a lot of family stuff going on.
But that's not the choice.
They'd be welcomed to Ames. What ISU (rightly) isnt interested in is a home and home series with them.
There's always the option to not watch those games.
ISU is still replacing a lot so gimmes can be a good thing for chemistry etc.
Either way there's not a team out there that doesn't have gimmes, and ISU isn't some exception, so there's really nothing to complain about.
I wish there was some way to just play Drake at Wells Fargo. Forget the Capital Classic crap with Iowa and UNI.
