Is our non conference schedule for next year going to have higher ranked teams? So we have higher strength of schedule etc? Just curious if anyone knows!
2024-2025 non conf schedule
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Schedules normally aren't finalized until a few months before the season starts. We definitely got unlucky with DePaul and Arizona State being absolute garbage, and the loss of the B1G-ACC challenge hurts too. Hopefully CCC is able to schedule up a bit so we don't end up with a terrible non conference schedule again next year.
There’s nothing to really lose either by playing a harder non-con schedule. It pushes up a lot of metrics even if you lose.
This is a football way of thinking. You can service just as much benefit from playing a soft schedule like NU did, but if you do that you have to look like a good team and blow out the pipsqueaks.
Football you just have to win 6 FBS games. The FB team had 8 wins and a NEGATIVE point differential. A similar basketball team (5th in conference with a winning B1G record but neg point differential) would have had a NET ranking of about 90 and we'd be looking at NIT brackets
Right, and how did we do non con in FB? Lost to a team with a pulse, tried to lose to an FCS team and did have a good margin of victory against UTEP, roughly the equivalent of a mediocre MAC bball team. Just happy FB looks at wins and losses