How Does Iowa's Non-Conference Look for 2017-2018?
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We are in a tournament with Cinci I think??? We have the Gavitt tip off & ACC challenge. So there are 2 more power 5 schools added to Colorado & ISU.
I would hope to get at least a home game vs a MAC, C-USA opponent. Teams with RPI's in the top 100-200. IF we see Delaware St, Hampton, or any of those other programs our RPI will be garbage again.
I would hope to get at least a home game vs a MAC, C-USA opponent. Teams with RPI's in the top 100-200. IF we see Delaware St, Hampton, or any of those other programs our RPI will be garbage again.
We're not in the Gavitt next year, which is why we grabbed Colorado. We're in a tournament with Cincy, Wyoming, and UAB.
There will no doubt be some games vs terrible RPI teams that will guarantee a home game without returning one. I understand those.
Is the ACC/Big 10 series still going next year? If so, is Iowa looking like they will have a game at home or on the road?
Is the ACC/Big 10 series still going next year? If so, is Iowa looking like they will have a game at home or on the road?
Cayman Islands Classic. Too lazy to link from my phone but google it and you'll find it.
https://www.landof10.com/iowa/iowa-basketball-face-power-5-opponent-sioux-falls-s-d-next-season
Next year, Iowa will not compete in the third edition of the Gavitt Games, an annual challenge between the Big Ten and Big East conferences. The Hawkeyes were matched against Marquette and Seton Hall during the first two seasons. McCaffery wanted his team to face a similar test next year.
“We just felt in a year when we weren’t playing in the Big East challenge, play a game like that somewhere,” McCaffery said. “We just thought that was a terrific opportunity for a lot of reasons.
Nine of Iowa’s possible 13 non-conference games are determined for next season. The Hawkeyes compete in the Cayman Islands against three opponents to be determined from Nov. 20-22, plus one more at Carver-Hawkeye Arena (around Nov. 10) for $85,000. Iowa will host Southern Utah ($100,000) on Dec. 19, play Drake in the Hy-Vee Classic on Dec. 16 in Des Moines and travel to Iowa State on Dec. 7. The Hawkeyes’ Big Ten-ACC Challenge opponent and location will be determined next spring.
Next year, Iowa will not compete in the third edition of the Gavitt Games, an annual challenge between the Big Ten and Big East conferences. The Hawkeyes were matched against Marquette and Seton Hall during the first two seasons. McCaffery wanted his team to face a similar test next year.
“We just felt in a year when we weren’t playing in the Big East challenge, play a game like that somewhere,” McCaffery said. “We just thought that was a terrific opportunity for a lot of reasons.
Nine of Iowa’s possible 13 non-conference games are determined for next season. The Hawkeyes compete in the Cayman Islands against three opponents to be determined from Nov. 20-22, plus one more at Carver-Hawkeye Arena (around Nov. 10) for $85,000. Iowa will host Southern Utah ($100,000) on Dec. 19, play Drake in the Hy-Vee Classic on Dec. 16 in Des Moines and travel to Iowa State on Dec. 7. The Hawkeyes’ Big Ten-ACC Challenge opponent and location will be determined next spring.
Bring on a izzo like non conference no teams over 250 plus RPI.
But they are fixing the RPI system have a feeling they will make it where playing top 25 teams helps your RPI more, because playing a top 25 team and a bad team is the same as playing acouple 125-150 teams which it shouldn't. Also D2 teams will count towards RPI maybe?
Last years team couldn't hang with the good teams but next years team will be fine, i think.
But they are fixing the RPI system have a feeling they will make it where playing top 25 teams helps your RPI more, because playing a top 25 team and a bad team is the same as playing acouple 125-150 teams which it shouldn't. Also D2 teams will count towards RPI maybe?
Last years team couldn't hang with the good teams but next years team will be fine, i think.
well southern utah finished w/a RPI of 341 this year!! You have to think the team that we play at Carver as part of the tournament will have an RPI of 300+.
I kind of hope we travel to Cedar City in that instance. That's a nice town.
Surely we can get teams ranked 175-225 to come here without requiring a return trip. Just avoid the 275+ teams
Univ Wisconsin Green Bay, Illinois St., Univ Illinois Chicago, Indiana St. , I'm sure there are many more just to name a few geographically close I wouldn't mind playing.
That would be a good guess. If you look at the standings for both leagues this past year and who has yet to play who in the challenge this would be a logical fit but who likes to follow logic.
Tts all about the type of cupcake. Its been discussed many times over, but the fact we continue to play a half dozen of the absolute worst teams in college basketball is infuriating, not only from a strength of schedule standpoint but also from a fans perspective as it relates to buying tickets to watch those meaningless games. It really shouldn't be that hard to avoid playing more than a couple teams ranked 300+ while playing a half dozen or so that are in the 200 range. There are plenty of teams from the Midwest that fit this category, which would provide tougher tests, more appeal to the fan while still proving to be a relatively easy win. Barta has convinced fans a half dozen or so games against the absolute bottom of the barrel are unavoidable and I simply don't buy it.
There are teams within 4 hours drive of Iowa City that they could bring in and they would sell more tickets than they normally would and it would be a good game. Any of the MVC schools, Horizon, Summit, and etc conferences are within reasonable distances. The majority of those schools will at least be in the top 250 of the RPI, which won't be so bad.
You bring in a team like Delaware state who has fan following of 10 people. Stetson, Florida directional school who also have fan bases of like 15-20 people. Get a local school from the midwest to come and their fans will probably travel.
You bring in a team like Delaware state who has fan following of 10 people. Stetson, Florida directional school who also have fan bases of like 15-20 people. Get a local school from the midwest to come and their fans will probably travel.
It will probably be Virginia Tech or Miami. I can see Michigan getting Syracuse.
And a big complaint I have about with BTN2GO is the production values of what has been shown in that avenue for Iowa games. As a former student with a degree in Film and Broadcasting there, Iowa used to have a stellar reputation in this area, having grads like the director of the Wrath of Khan Star Trek film, amongst others. I can understand how maybe the first few games when some newer students get their feet wet doing those broadcasts that things would perhaps have some mistakes in them, but when even later in the year you have really POOR production values in those games where so many things like:
1) missing character generator output so that in many cases there is no visual scoreboard through parts or through the whole game,
2) no announcers through huge segments of the game, and you actually hear the production crew give time cues instead (that shouldn't be heard AT ALL!) and louder than the announcers themselves.
3) heavy emphasis on doing replays when they should be covering live action instead, with a lot of meaningless animated intros and outros.
4) not actually broadcasting part of the games at the beginning or in the middle when something keeps them from broadcasting, or poor quality transmission interrupts their broadcasts (that was a bigger problem earlier in the year, when one of the replays I think had only about a half hour of content).
If BTN expects viewers to pay for this sh*t, they really need to work together with the university and make sure that the staff there is helping students put together a production that becomes professional quality as the year goes on. That's what they are paying for too when getting a degree there. I don't think the broadcasting department that was present when I was at school there would have allowed that kind of production quality to be aired publicly that would have really adversely affected their reputation and ability to attract good students to the program. I've seen better quality production with some of the other school's home broadcsts, so I think other schools do take a stronger interest in producing a professional product, but that is something I don't think Iowa should accept if they want to keep up the traditions that this area has had in its past.
If they are going to play such horrible teams at all, make sure that those are the teams we play in exhibition games that aren't counted in the RPI, and also so that we don't actually LOSE an exhibition game the way we did over the last couple of years.
We've played VaTech a few times in the challenge... boring. Have we ever played Miami, ever? That would be OK. Syracuse is obviously more appealing, but I agree with the other poster that we aren't high enough profile to get that matchup. Only got ND because of Fran connection
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