2013-14 Schedule

[sportsdoctor05]

To allow a 15-2 run is of course bad, the final score is all that really matters. I guess handily is relative, but when we lose by 15+ consistently (to BCS schools) , its not good. How can that be good?

[oakland94]

How? money, recruiting, the fans remember the wins and the close game. TV, we win enough of those games or play close that we get our name out there. Big ten teams beat other big ten teams by 20 plus points . No disgrace in that

[exodus1500]

To casual fans especially, its easier to remember the big wins and not the terrible losses to the BCSers. I remember beating Oregon and Tennessee twice but cant keep track of the litany of other losses we have had.

Ive never had someone say: OH, didn't they loose to x,y, and z? Ive only heard about the random scattering of big wins.

Obviously that has to change as the team grows and moves up though.

[Blackbird]

North Carolina, UCLA, Gonzaga, Cal, Indiana, Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, West Virginia, Alabama, Michigan, Arizona, Arkansas, Purdue, Illinois, Ohio State, Texas.

These are all schools that Travis Bader will have played against at least once during his four years playing at OU. You can't tell me that dangling the opportunity to play against some of these programs doesn't help with recruiting against other mid-majors. I like the scheduling philosophy for that reason alone.

[oakland94]

Yes we did win 2 of those games, lost one in overtime and lost 2 others in the last possession, and this years 6 killer games I would wager we will win at least one

[Blackbird]

Jun 16, 2013 10:15:53 GMT -5 Big DWSU said:

Here is the important part, the SL played a much tougher schedule. The SL's SOS was 14 whereas the HL's SOS was only 29.

The Horizon was 12th in RPI with a weak OOC SOS. The Summit was 19th in RPI with a mediocre OOC SOS.  The Missouri Valley Conference was 9th in RPI and had the 5th toughest OOC.  Guess which one was a multi-bid conference?

It's not that I don't see your point, it's just that there doesn't seem to be any evidence that shying away from big competition is a better way to grow your conference into a multi-bid conference. I think it'd be better if the whole damn conference played more of these "outmatched" games every year, because it increases the chances that a team in the conference will win a couple of them and will start getting looked at by the national media, which in turn, reflects on all of us).  Other than tearing it up in the tournament the year before, beating big competition seems to be the surest way to get your ticket punched come March.  

But to each their own.  You do make good points.

[blackandgold]

Paul Kampe has some nice coverage of the schedule release:

www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2013/07/16/sports/grizzlies/doc51e5ec365076b781056391.txt?viewmode=default

Of note is that the OUGrizzlies.com schedule says the Maui Mainland games are on Nov 22 and Nov 23, while the official press release from ESPN released today says they are on Nov 23 and Nov 24, and it says the first game is against Louisiana Lafayette, who we played last year. Strange coincidence.

assets.espn.go.com/pdf/2013/0715/finalized_maui_bracket.pdf

I like to see everything laid out on a calendar so will share that here, using the ESPN.com information.



What stands out looking at the calendar is four straight Saturday home games and the relative randomness of the days of the week of Horizon games. There's also some space left if Kampe decides to add another game, which he mentioned he may do in the Paul Kampe article. They have only 30 games on this schedule and can max out at 31.

[blackandgold]

Here's an updated calendar-view version of the schedule, which includes a home game against Robert Morris, announced today.



November is going to be tough, but December is awesome. Adding RMU is awesome in my mind. A nice weekend at the O'rena with Eastern Michigan on Saturday and RMU on Sunday, right near the holidays. RMU finished 24-11 last year and was in the NIT.

[oudrummer]

Back to back games? Ouch. Nice addition though.

[Grizzfan1]

Very unexpected but awesome addition to the schedule with adding Robert Morris who as mentioned was an NIT team last season and knocked off Kentucky. Very weird to see home games on back to back days but at least they're at home.