Big East non-conference schedule 2014-15

[MU/Panther]

BUTLER
November 1st - University of Chicago (Exhibition)
November 8th - TBD (Exhibition)
November 15th - Maine
November 18th - Chattanooga
November 22nd - Loyola (Md)
November 26-28th - Battle 4 Atlantis - 3 games vs. (North Carolina, UAB, UCLA, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgetown, Oklahoma)
December 3rd - @ Indiana State
December 6th - Northwestern
December 8th - Kennesaw State
December 14th - @ Tennessee
December 20th - Indiana (Crossroads Classic @ Banker's Life Fieldhouse)
December 22nd - UT Martin
December 28th - Belmont

Creighton
Fri. Nov. 7 SIOUX FALLS (Ex.)
Fri. Nov. 14 CENTRAL ARKANSAS
Sun. Nov. 16 CHICAGO STATE
Wed. Nov. 19 OKLAHOMA
Emerald Coast Classic
Sun. Nov. 23 NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL
Tues. Nov. 25 EASTERN ILLINOIS
Fri. Nov. 28 Ole Miss Niceville, Fla.
Sat. Nov. 29 Middle Tennessee / Cincinnati Niceville, Fla.
Wed. Dec. 3 at Tulsa
Sun. Dec. 7 at Nebraska
Tues. Dec. 9 South Dakota
Sat. Dec. 13 Saint Mary’s
Fri. Dec. 19 Texas-Pan American
Sun. Dec. 21 at North Texas

DePaul
Nov 14 - vs UIC.
Nov 18 - vs Drake.
Nov 26 - vs Lehigh.
Nov 30 - vs Stanford
Dec 2 - vs Northern Illinois.
Dec 4 - at Chicago State.
Dec 7 - vs Milwaukee.
Dec 11 - at George Washington
Dec 14 - vs Illinois State.
Dec 18 - at Oregon State
then:
Dec 22-25 - in Diamond Head Classic (no brackets yet, but teams include Colorado, George Washington, Loyola Marymount, Nebraska, Ohio U and Wichita State

Providence
Nov. 15 Albany
Nov. 17 Binghamton
Nov. 20 Navy
Nov. 22 Florida State (@ Mohegan Sun)
Nov. 23 Notre Dame (@ Mohegan Sun)
Nov. 28 Holy Cross
Nov. 30 @ Kentucky
Dec. 5 @ Boston College
Dec. 8 Brown
Dec. 10 URI
Dec. 13 Stony Brook
Dec. 20 UMass
Dec. 22 Miami (@ Barclays Center)

SETON HALL
11/16/14 vs. Mercer
U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam
11/21/14 vs. Nevada
11/22/14 Clemson/Gardner Webb
11/24/14 TBA
11/29/14 vs. George Washington
12/02/14 vs. Mount St. Mary's
12/06/14 vs. Rutgers
12/09/14 at Wichita State
12/14/14 vs. Saint Peter's
12/18/14 at USF
12/21/14 at Georgia
12/27/14 vs. Maine

XAVIER
Friday, Nov. 14 Northern Arizona (Opening Night)
Tuesday, Nov. 18 Long Beach State (home game as part of the Wooden Legacy)
Friday, Nov. 21 Stephen F. Austin
Monday, Nov. 24 Murray State
Thur./Fri./Sun., Nov. 27/28/30 Wooden Legacy in California
Saturday, Dec. 6 Alabama
Tuesday, Dec. 9 IUPUI
Saturday, Dec. 13 at Missouri
Saturday, Dec. 20 at Auburn
Sunday, Dec. 28 Florida Gulf Coast
Wednesday, Feb. 18 at Cincinnati

[KMWTRUCKS]

I would like us to do 1 more HM home and homes. I know we might win less games but our SOS and RPI would be higher plus I would not mind paying the same for one less game. If we did 4 every year (right now 3) and got one less home game. The buy games are worthless for me living in Chicago and I cannot even really give them away.

[mutpm]

If we lose, the RPI is not going to be higher. If you need an example, look at the 2013-14 season.

[KMWTRUCKS]

Does it go higher by beating North West south state college at home? It does not seem like it.

[MKE_GoldenEagleFan]

To help RPI we need to schedule less teams with an RPI below 200, it didn't work out well for us last year in that regard... We played more than enough top 50 teams

[MUMac]

Does it go higher by beating North West south state college at home? It does not seem like it.

The problem was the level of the buy games. Need to stay in the 100-200 range for those and get lucky with a couple ending up between 75-100.

The RPI was not helped by losses at UW and ASU, along with New Mexico and SDSU.

[MU/Panther]

Problem was MU was 1-5 vs teams with a pulse in the non-conference.

[KMWTRUCKS]

The thing is good low major teams can really dictate who they play and how much they get paid. The top 1/2 of mid Majors do not do buy games so its only the bottom 1/2 and low majors and ones that can show that they should be in the to be top 1/3 of there league can get a buy game from just about anyone.

[MU/Panther]

Georgetown will play Indiana at MSG on Saturday, Dec 27.

[MU/Panther]

Seton Hall signed a H/H with Wichita State.

[MU/Panther]

Seton Hall signed a H/H with George Washington

St . John's signed a H/H with St. Mary's

Providence will host a solid RPI game in Stony Brook

[Markedman]

this isn't about 2014-15 but interesting none the less...... Bluejay Banter ‏@bluejaybanter 16m
Bruce Rasmussen(Creighton AD) says the Big East is hoping to finalize a scheduling deal with the Pac-12 similar to the previously announced Big Ten deal.

[MUMac]

this isn't about 2014-15 but interesting none the less...... Bluejay Banter ‏@bluejaybanter 16m
Bruce Rasmussen(Creighton AD) says the Big East is hoping to finalize a scheduling deal with the Pac-12 similar to the previously announced Big Ten deal.

This was from the article linked in a post about BE expansion. http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/content/20140607-kevin-mcnamara-rhodys-instrastate-schools-maintaining-their-distance-in-basketball.ece

Specifically: "What PC’s Driscoll says the league is planning on doing is juicing up Fox’s offerings in the nonconference portion of the season. The recently announced Gavitt Tipoff series with the Big Ten is a great start, and sources said Fox was working to broker a similar partnership between the Pac 12 and Big East."

Sounds like Fox wants it, so I suspect it will get done.

[MKE_GoldenEagleFan]

That would be awesome... Let's get one with the Big 12 while we are at it

[MU/Panther]

FS1 wants better games in November and December.

[CaribouJim]

FS1 wants better games in November and December.

Bring it on. Fox is really impressing as of late. Great stuff.

[MU/Panther]

Georgetown and Syracuse to start a 4 game series starting in 2015-16
http://cuse.com/news/2014/6/10/Gtownseries61014.aspx

[Goose85]

Great for the Big East.
Improve non conference schedules - more home and home games / Gavitt games with Big 10 / Pac 12 games. As MUMac said, if Fox wants it look for it to happen. Plenty of opportunities for TV exposure during non conference with such games - now it is up to the Big East to win them.

Glad G-town and Syracuse are going to be playing, I wish we could do something like that with Louisville.

[CaribouJim]

Great for the Big East.
Improve non conference schedules - more home and home games / Gavitt games with Big 10 / Pac 12 games. As MUMac said, if Fox wants it look for it to happen. Plenty of opportunities for TV exposure during non conference with such games - now it is up to the Big East to win them.

Glad G-town and Syracuse are going to be playing, I wish we could do something like that with Louisville.

Sounds like the Genesis of the original Big East - taking on any and all of the big boys from coast to coast with highly promoted TV games. Can't help thinking that surely helps recruiting.

I agree about 'Ville. Would love to get back playing those guys on an annual basis.

[IWB]

Funny how the AD at Creighton is always the one to spill the beans about this stuff.

[MU/Panther]

Funny how the AD at Creighton is always the one to spill the beans about this stuff.
It seems like we get great inside info from Creighton.

[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

I want ND as a regular H&H, but don't want Louisville. I still have too much mental scarring from memories I've tried to purge.

[MU/Panther]

THE 2014-15 XAVIER MEN’S BASKETBALL REGULAR SEASON NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, Nov. 14 Northern Arizona (Opening Night)
Tuesday, Nov. 18 Long Beach State (home game as part of the Wooden Legacy)
Friday, Nov. 21 Stephen F. Austin
Monday, Nov. 24 Murray State
Thur./Fri./Sun., Nov. 27/28/30 Wooden Legacy in California
Saturday, Dec. 6 Alabama
Tuesday, Dec. 9 IUPUI
Saturday, Dec. 13 at Missouri
Saturday, Dec. 20 at Auburn
Sunday, Dec. 28 Florida Gulf Coast
Wednesday, Feb. 18 at Cincinnati

[MUBasketball]

THE 2014-15 XAVIER MEN’S BASKETBALL REGULAR SEASON NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, Nov. 14 Northern Arizona (Opening Night)
Tuesday, Nov. 18 Long Beach State (home game as part of the Wooden Legacy)
Friday, Nov. 21 Stephen F. Austin
Monday, Nov. 24 Murray State
Thur./Fri./Sun., Nov. 27/28/30 Wooden Legacy in California
Saturday, Dec. 6 Alabama
Tuesday, Dec. 9 IUPUI
Saturday, Dec. 13 at Missouri
Saturday, Dec. 20 at Auburn
Sunday, Dec. 28 Florida Gulf Coast
Wednesday, Feb. 18 at Cincinnati

That's a very good non-conference schedule. Northern Arizona & IUPUI are the only snoozers in the bunch. Long Beach State and Murray State are traditionally very tough mid majors. FGCU is pretty solid and of course Stephen F. Austin had 30+ wins last year. Excellent schedule.

[MU/Panther]

Northern Arizona was 15-17, so that is not all that bad.

[MU/Panther]

Seton Hall signed a H/H with South Florida. Will start this year at Tampa.

[MU/Panther]

DePaul just released their OOC schedule:
Nov 14 - vs UIC.
Nov 18 - vs Drake.
Nov 26 - vs Lehigh.
Nov 30 - vs Stanford
Dec 2 - vs Northern Illinois.
Dec 4 - at Chicago State.
Dec 7 - vs Milwaukee.
Dec 11 - at George Washington
Dec 14 - vs Illinois State.
Dec 18 - at Oregon State
then:
Dec 22-25 - in Diamond Head Classic (no brackets yet, but teams include Colorado, George Washington, Loyola Marymount, Nebraska, Ohio U and Wichita State

[MU/Panther]

Seton Hall Non-Conference Schedule

11/16/14 vs. Mercer
U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam
11/21/14 vs. Nevada
11/22/14 Clemson/Gardner Webb
11/24/14 TBA
11/29/14 vs. George Washington
12/02/14 vs. Mount St. Mary's
12/06/14 vs. Rutgers
12/09/14 at Wichita State
12/14/14 vs. Saint Peter's
12/18/14 at USF
12/21/14 at Georgia
12/27/14 vs. Maine

[MU/Panther]

Creighton Non-Conference Schedule
Fri. Nov. 7 SIOUX FALLS (Ex.)
Fri. Nov. 14 CENTRAL ARKANSAS
Sun. Nov. 16 CHICAGO STATE
Wed. Nov. 19 OKLAHOMA
Emerald Coast Classic
Sun. Nov. 23 NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL
Tues. Nov. 25 EASTERN ILLINOIS
Fri. Nov. 28 Ole Miss Niceville, Fla.
Sat. Nov. 29 Middle Tennessee / Cincinnati Niceville, Fla.
Wed. Dec. 3 at Tulsa
Sun. Dec. 7 at Nebraska
Tues. Dec. 9 South Dakota
Sat. Dec. 13 Saint Mary’s
Fri. Dec. 19 Texas-Pan American
Sun. Dec. 21 at North Texas

***Updated list on the top of the page***

[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

Broeker's response to the missing non-con game:


@brewcity77 will add one more game but won’t be tied to Orlando. No “snub”, bracketing precluded. ESPN doesn’t facilitate ala Maui.

[CaribouJim]

Of the non-conference schedules listed in this thread and with the exception of the holiday tournament teams that may include some beef, Providence is the only schedule that wows me - some are downright pathetic. 2015-2016 with the Big 10 and PAC 12 set-up can't come soon enough. PC playing 4 ACC teams plus Kentucky.

[MU/Panther]

URI and UMass will be tough games for Providence.

[CaribouJim]

URI and UMass will be tough games for Providence.

Making their schedule all the more impressive.

[MU/Panther]

Well, Xavier has Alabama, Auburn, Missouri and Cincinnati. Seton Hall has stepped it up from last year GW, Wichita State, USF, and Georgia. There home opener is Mercer, who beat Duke in the ncaa tourament. Plus, Mercer beat SH last year. Creighton said they would have never got the H/H with Oklahoma, if still in the MVC.

[warriorfan4life]

I think Seton Hall's schedule is also good. Road games at Wichita State and Georgia (12-6 in SEC last year, return all but one key player), and home games with tourney teams last year in GW and Mercer, and 1-2 potentially good games in the Virgin Islands. Not sexy name wise save Wichita State, but pretty good with some evaluation.

No issue with Creighton's schedule either, especially with them incorporating so many guys into different roles. Oklahoma is potential top 10 team, Nebraska a potential top 25 team, Tulsa returns the core of a tourney team, and some solid mid-major games like St. Mary's and NC Central (with former MU player Jamal Ferguson, who I think will thrive for them).