Iowa's Non-Conference Schedule for 2013-2014 Season

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Section136

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Schedule is starting to take shape a little. This much we know:

@ISU
vs Drake in DSM
vs Notre Dame
3 games in Bahamas against Kansas, Tennessee, Xavier, Wake Forest, Villanova, USC or UTEP.

Thats 6 of the 13 non-con games accounted for.

Anything I am missing as far as announced games?
 


That is already a major major upgrade. Might I say an NCAA tournament sized upgrade.

(insert dr evil pic)
 


Iowa will have a good opportunity to make a name for themselves early next year, I can imagine one more descent opponent then the rest cake.
 


As of now, that could be as many as 5 games against BCS conference opponets and only 1 of those would be at home.

I like it.
 


You could take those games right there, and schedule cupcakes the rest of the non-conference, and you would have a pretty respectable slate. Just be sure that the cupcakes are teams that are rated about 200 in the RPI give or take, not a bunch in the 300's like we had this past year. Those teams kill your RPI.

So we can afford some cupcakes, just gotta lay off the cupcakes with the extra frosting on top.
 




1977Hawkeye said:
You could take those games right there, and schedule cupcakes the rest of the non-conference, and you would have a pretty respectable slate. Just be sure that the cupcakes are teams that are rated about 200 in the RPI give or take, not a bunch in the 300's like we had this past year. Those teams kill your RPI.

So we can afford some cupcakes, just gotta lay off the cupcakes with the extra frosting on top.
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No, Iowa cannot afford to schedule 3 games against teams that finish with 24 loses like they did last year (Howard, S Carolina St, and Coppin St), 50% of the RPI score is your opponents win percentage.

So hopefully Drake, Iowa State, Notre Dame, and the 3 teams they play in the tournament end up with decent records at the end of the season. Both Drake and Iowa State could end up with down seasons as Drake is starting over with a new coach and ISU might be rebuilding.
 


ssckelley said:
So hopefully Drake, Iowa State, Notre Dame, and the 3 teams they play in the tournament end up with decent records at the end of the season. Both Drake and Iowa State could end up with down seasons as Drake is starting over with a new coach and ISU might be rebuilding.
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The good news on the Drake/ISU front is that Drake will be on a neutral site and ISU will be away. So I don't mind if either team is down.

GO HAWKS!!!
 


BrueCrew3 said:
The good news on the Drake/ISU front is that Drake will be on a neutral site and ISU will be away. So I don't mind if either team is down.

GO HAWKS!!!
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You make a good point, Iowa would get 2.4 wins toward their win percentage if they win both games. If you are going to play a crappy team play them on the road.
 


Section136 said:
Schedule is starting to take shape a little. This much we know:

@ISU
vs Drake in DSM
vs Notre Dame
3 games in Bahamas against Kansas, Tennessee, Xavier, Wake Forest, Villanova, USC or UTEP.

Thats 6 of the 13 non-con games accounted for.

Anything I am missing as far as announced games?
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That's a real good start.
 


1977Hawkeye said:
You could take those games right there, and schedule cupcakes the rest of the non-conference, and you would have a pretty respectable slate. Just be sure that the cupcakes are teams that are rated about 200 in the RPI give or take, not a bunch in the 300's like we had this past year. Those teams kill your RPI.

So we can afford some cupcakes, just gotta lay off the cupcakes with the extra frosting on top.
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I saw on tos where Iowa plays UNO (RPI last year of 285) Hopefully there isn't too many more like them.
 


We scheduled 'em. Now we have to win 'em.

Even with a tough non-conference schedule, you have to get to X wins to be considered for the tournament.
 


That group of games, combined with last year's finale, and this Kansas resident should get a few more games on TV :)
 






lets hope we win some of 'em. i'm as excited about the upgrade as anyone, but we'll be playing against significantly better teams. i guess we'll know really soon what kind of team we have. it's great to play harder competition, but if you need to win them to have them count!
 




This is the kind of schedule that Iowa should have been playing all along. They could lose two games or even all three and it will help more than playing a 300+ RPI team.

Thank you Fran

Also I read Iowa is trying to get a home and home series with an ACC team...any ideas who that may be?
 


MeatMan said:
lets hope we win some of 'em. i'm as excited about the upgrade as anyone, but we'll be playing against significantly better teams. i guess we'll know really soon what kind of team we have. it's great to play harder competition, but if you need to win them to have them count!
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Actually most of the last teams that got in the tourney ahead of Iowa beat no one of relevance, they just scheduled and lost better looking out of conference games.


What Iowa really needs to do to round out this schedule is put a couple d2 teams on it so their RPI will be higher LOL.
 


sportstalent said:
This is the kind of schedule that Iowa should have been playing all along. They could lose two games or even all three and it will help more than playing a 300+ RPI team.

Thank you Fran

Also I read Iowa is trying to get a home and home series with an ACC team...any ideas who that may be?
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All due respect, I will take Frans opinion in regards to the OOC schedule. He wanted wins last year and has never changed his tune on that. The OOC schedule is not the reason Iowa missed the NCAA tournament. It's the blown second half leads in Madison, Minneapolis, Lincoln and West Lafayette that sent Iowa to the NIT.
 


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