2014-2015 schedule

[wh]

I tried to weed through this thread to recap the OOC schedule as we presently know it.  This is what I'm coming up with (which may or may not be accurate):

Home (no particular order)
Ball State
New Mexico
ETSU
IU South Bend (NAIA)
Grand Valley State (Exh.)

Away (no particular order)
Missouri
Murray State
IPFW
Portland
Drake
Central Michigan/Arkansas-Pine Bluff/Maine (2 of the 3 - TBA)
James Madison

Last season we played a 10-game home OOC schedule, including 6 games against D-1 opponents, 2 non D-1 opponents, and 2 exhibition games.  It would appear there's still a lot we don't know about the home schedule.

[crusadermoe]

Seems like VU schedule is the best kept secret in the country.    Most schools have theirs out.

[EddieCabot]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

[wh]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

From an 18-game home schedule a year ago to 15 games this - very disappointing.

[a3uge]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

From an 18-game home schedule a year ago to 15 games this - very disappointing.

We had 16 scheduled. One was CIT and the other was a conference tourney game. Also, two of the 16 were non D1. The year before we had 18, but 3 were non D1 and one was a bracketbuster. In 2011 we had 17 with 4 non D1. 2010 - included a bracketbuster and 2 non D1, 2009 we only had 12 home games, 2008 14, 2007 17, 2006 12.

So 15 is fairly normal for home games.

[a3uge]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games.

Its not a given we will play 3 non D1 games. Also not mentioned here is our away game vs IPFW Dec 20th.

[wh]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

From an 18-game home schedule a year ago to 15 games this - very disappointing.

We had 16 scheduled. One was CIT and the other was a conference tourney game. Also, two of the 16 were non D1. The year before we had 18, but 3 were non D1 and one was a bracketbuster. In 2011 we had 17 with 4 non D1. 2010 - included a bracketbuster and 2 non D1, 2009 we only had 12 home games, 2008 14, 2007 17, 2006 12.

So 15 is fairly normal for home games.

We had 18 scheduled home games last year - not 16 - plus a tournament game and the CIT for a total of 20.

[a3uge]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

From an 18-game home schedule a year ago to 15 games this - very disappointing.

We had 16 scheduled. One was CIT and the other was a conference tourney game. Also, two of the 16 were non D1. The year before we had 18, but 3 were non D1 and one was a bracketbuster. In 2011 we had 17 with 4 non D1. 2010 - included a bracketbuster and 2 non D1, 2009 we only had 12 home games, 2008 14, 2007 17, 2006 12.

So 15 is fairly normal for home games.

We had 18 scheduled home games last year - not 16 - plus a tournament game and the CIT for a total of 20.

Am I missing someone?

Murray state 1
North Park 2
James Madison 3
UCF 4
Mercer 5
Cincinnati Christian 6
SLU 7
LMU 8
UIC 9
Wright St 10
UWM 11
UWGB 12
Detroit 13
Oakland 14
YSU 15
CSU 16
---- Conf Tourney
UIC 17
---- CIT
Columbia 18

[wh]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

From an 18-game home schedule a year ago to 15 games this - very disappointing.

We had 16 scheduled. One was CIT and the other was a conference tourney game. Also, two of the 16 were non D1. The year before we had 18, but 3 were non D1 and one was a bracketbuster. In 2011 we had 17 with 4 non D1. 2010 - included a bracketbuster and 2 non D1, 2009 we only had 12 home games, 2008 14, 2007 17, 2006 12.

So 15 is fairly normal for home games.

We had 18 scheduled home games last year - not 16 - plus a tournament game and the CIT for a total of 20.

Am I missing someone?

Murray state 1
North Park 2
James Madison 3
UCF 4
Mercer 5
Cincinnati Christian 6
SLU 7
LMU 8
UIC 9
Wright St 10
UWM 11
UWGB 12
Detroit 13
Oakland 14
YSU 15
CSU 16
---- Conf Tourney
UIC 17
---- CIT
Columbia 18

I have no idea why you're making a point of excluding exhibition games. That has nothing to do with my original point.  Last year I received 4 sets of season tickets.  There were 18 tickets in each set for 18 home games.  This year (according to the season ticket order form I received) I will be receiving 4 packets with 15 tickets in each packet for 15 home games.  Thus, my disappointment.  Comprendere?

[a3uge]

Season ticket form says 15 home games, so it should break down something like this (building off wh's information above):
Home (15):
2 exhibitions (Grand Valley / ??)
8 HL games
5 Non-conference (BSU/UNM/ETSU/IUSB/??)

Road/neutral (17):
8 HL games
3 MSU exempt tourney
2 CMU tourney
2 known (Missouri/JMU)
2 unknown

Valpo gets 30 regular season games (27 + 3 in MSU exempt tourney), so that's how I arrived at the 17 away games.  Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

From an 18-game home schedule a year ago to 15 games this - very disappointing.

We had 16 scheduled. One was CIT and the other was a conference tourney game. Also, two of the 16 were non D1. The year before we had 18, but 3 were non D1 and one was a bracketbuster. In 2011 we had 17 with 4 non D1. 2010 - included a bracketbuster and 2 non D1, 2009 we only had 12 home games, 2008 14, 2007 17, 2006 12.

So 15 is fairly normal for home games.

We had 18 scheduled home games last year - not 16 - plus a tournament game and the CIT for a total of 20.

Am I missing someone?

Murray state 1
North Park 2
James Madison 3
UCF 4
Mercer 5
Cincinnati Christian 6
SLU 7
LMU 8
UIC 9
Wright St 10
UWM 11
UWGB 12
Detroit 13
Oakland 14
YSU 15
CSU 16
---- Conf Tourney
UIC 17
---- CIT
Columbia 18

I have no idea why you're making a point of excluding exhibition games. That has nothing to do with my original point.  Last year I received 4 sets of season tickets.  There were 18 tickets in each set for 18 home games.  This year (according to the season ticket order form I received) I will be receiving 4 packets with 15 tickets in each packet for 15 home games.  Thus, my disappointment.  Comprendere?

I'm not trying to be a jerk or make any point. Im just trying to figure out if we played 3 or 5 non d1 games last year.

[wh]

No big deal.  Everything's good in the brotherhood. 

[historyman]

No big deal.  Everything's good in the brotherhood. 

I didn't think you were a union guy, brother wh.

[talksalot]

Earlier, talksalot mentioned the Bracketbuster return game to Eastern Kentucky, so that may be one of the unknown road games. 

I understand December 3 at EKYU... got that second hand...

[valpopal]

Rumor of a game against Trinity International on Dec 10. Horizon League schedules to be released tomorrow.

[Kyle321n]

Here's the conference schedule

[Kyle321n]

Also just as an FYI only UIC and Detroit have anything "official" for their non-con.

[VULB#62]

Does anyone know whether/if we'll ever get to play New Mexico?

What got me asking was that I saw this on the ESPN college site:

Craig Neal gets $5.7M, 6-year deal
Updated: September 8, 2014, 3:02 PM ET
Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico men's basketball coach Craig Neal has agreed to a new six-year, $5.7 million contract after leading the Lobos to the NCAA tournament in his first season at the helm, the school announced Monday.

Neal, who took over after Steve Alford left for UCLA before last season, was already under contract through 2020, so the deal doesn't extend the length but is "essentially" a pay increase, New Mexico athletics spokesman Matt Ensor said.

New Mexico had signed Neal to a contract extension in March.

Neal led New Mexico to a 27-7 record last year and is the first coach to lead the Lobos to the NCAA tournament in his first season.

"This means a lot to me and our program," Neal said. "I've received tremendous support from our administration, university and fans in my first year as head coach. It all reaffirmed to me that the University of New Mexico is where I want to spend my career."

Athletic director Paul Krebs said Craig has done an exemplary job in his short time as head coach.

"It became even more apparent to me over the offseason that Craig is well-respected nationally in the basketball community," Krebs said. "After watching him manage a national program, recruit high-caliber student-athletes and solidify himself as a top coach in nation, I felt it was vital to ensure his place as head basketball coach at the University of New Mexico for years to come."

Neal was introduced as New Mexico's coach in April 2013 after spending six seasons as associate head coach under Alford.

As the program's top assistant from 2007-13, Neal was a key figure in the program's six conference championships during that time, school officials said.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

The most visible change is that the schedule is unbalanced, i.e. we no longer play everyone once the first half of the conference season, and then repeat.

E.g. we play YSU twice in the first 6 games--the series with them is concluded before we've even seen UDM or UWM.

[bbtds]

I may be missing something really simple but how do you know which are the home teams on the HL schedule in the 4:08 p.m. message from Kyle?

[bbtds]

Does anyone know whether/if we'll ever get to play New Mexico?

What got me asking was that I saw this on the ESPN college site:

Craig Neal gets $5.7M, 6-year deal
Updated: September 8, 2014, 3:02 PM ET
Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico men's basketball coach Craig Neal has agreed to a new six-year, $5.7 million contract after leading the Lobos to the NCAA tournament in his first season at the helm, the school announced Monday.

Neal, who took over after Steve Alford left for UCLA before last season, was already under contract through 2020, so the deal doesn't extend the length but is "essentially" a pay increase, New Mexico athletics spokesman Matt Ensor said.

New Mexico had signed Neal to a contract extension in March.

Neal led New Mexico to a 27-7 record last year and is the first coach to lead the Lobos to the NCAA tournament in his first season.

"This means a lot to me and our program," Neal said. "I've received tremendous support from our administration, university and fans in my first year as head coach. It all reaffirmed to me that the University of New Mexico is where I want to spend my career."

Athletic director Paul Krebs said Craig has done an exemplary job in his short time as head coach.

"It became even more apparent to me over the offseason that Craig is well-respected nationally in the basketball community," Krebs said. "After watching him manage a national program, recruit high-caliber student-athletes and solidify himself as a top coach in nation, I felt it was vital to ensure his place as head basketball coach at the University of New Mexico for years to come."

Neal was introduced as New Mexico's coach in April 2013 after spending six seasons as associate head coach under Alford.

As the program's top assistant from 2007-13, Neal was a key figure in the program's six conference championships during that time, school officials said.

Why would the contract of the Lobos' coach change the fact that they were supposed to play at Valpo this coming season?

[vu72]

Why would the contract of the Lobos' coach change the fact that they were supposed to play at Valpo this coming season?

Here's what.  Some years back Valpo had a home and home scheduled with Minnesota.  Valpo played there and expected the return game the following year.  Dan Munson was hired as the new coach of the Gophers who promptly told Homer there was no way in hell that he was coming to Valpo.  End of story.  We got a nice buy out.  Coaches at that level have financial power and as we know, there is little to gain for them to come here.  Until it is officially on the books anything can happen.

[Pathfinder]

New Mexico game is in the program, Dec. 6: http://www.golobos.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=87115&SPSID=616926

[a3uge]

Here's the conference schedule

Uh... Bingo? Interesting formatting there.

[bbtds]

I may be missing something really simple but how do you know which are the home teams on the HL schedule in the 4:08 p.m. message from Kyle?

I think I've answered my own question. So no further explanation is necessary.

[valpotx]

I like a coach that honors prior commitments, so good on Neal for coming to Valpo!