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rodthompson

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Has anyone heard anything as far as who Iowa is trying to schedule non-conference next season? Obviously playing a weak non-conference has hurt the squad in a lot of "experts" eyes this season.

Just curious if anyone has any idea? Obviously nothing is official yet.
 
hawkfan33 said:
That's 2014-15, they're in the Great Alaskan shootout next year, which has a pretty weak field.
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It isn't a great field but it isn't a "weak" field either. Since Alaska Anchorage is DII they wouldn't count towards the RPI anyway but of the remaining 6 teams that Iowa could play they all have a higher RPI this year then 7 of the 13 non conference teams from this year. And 3 of the teams in the field next year are in the top 100 this year with Denver at 66, Indiana St at 78 and Harvard at 97.

I don't know enough about what each team has coming back next year but the teams in this tournament is still going to be an upgrade non conference schedule compared to this year.
 
They will also be neutral court games which mean more than home court games. I don't know this personally but have been paying attention to all of the RPI posts...even though I personally still don't think RPI is anything more than 1 of many pieces in the evaluation puzzle.

hawkeyescott said:
It isn't a great field but it isn't a "weak" field either. Since Alaska Anchorage is DII they wouldn't count towards the RPI anyway but of the remaining 6 teams that Iowa could play they all have a higher RPI this year then 7 of the 13 non conference teams from this year. And 3 of the teams in the field next year are in the top 100 this year with Denver at 66, Indiana St at 78 and Harvard at 97.

I don't know enough about what each team has coming back next year but the teams in this tournament is still going to be an upgrade non conference schedule compared to this year.
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hawkeyescott said:
It isn't a great field but it isn't a "weak" field either. Since Alaska Anchorage is DII they wouldn't count towards the RPI anyway but of the remaining 6 teams that Iowa could play they all have a higher RPI this year then 7 of the 13 non conference teams from this year. And 3 of the teams in the field next year are in the top 100 this year with Denver at 66, Indiana St at 78 and Harvard at 97.

I don't know enough about what each team has coming back next year but the teams in this tournament is still going to be an upgrade non conference schedule compared to this year.
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that is weak...
 
Yea, that is still going to do very little to impress anyone. Hopefully they can schedule somebody straight up. No risk, no reward in my opinion.
 
ILHawk said:
that is weak...
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It's not weak on paper. That's how you play the RPI game. Wins over Denver, Indiana State and Harvard (for example) on a neutral court, would be waaaaay better than beating South Carolina State's of the world in Carver.

Of course, we don't know the draw of that tournament yet and Iowa could get AK-Anchorage, Pepperdine or TCU and then it wouldn't do much for the Hawks.
 
Can you stop posting above the post you are quoting...its giving me a headache

Kthx

WindsorHawk said:
They will also be neutral court games which mean more than home court games. I don't know this personally but have been paying attention to all of the RPI posts...even though I personally still don't think RPI is anything more than 1 of many pieces in the evaluation puzzle.
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hawkeyescott said:
Maybe it is weak but playing the teams in this tournament next year on a neutral court is still going to be an upgrade over playing the 310th, 263rd, 334th, 325th, 342nd and 309th teams at Carver like this year.
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Better hope we don't lose to Alaska.
 
TecmoSuperHawk said:
It's not weak on paper. That's how you play the RPI game. Wins over Denver, Indiana State and Harvard (for example) on a neutral court, would be waaaaay better than beating South Carolina State's of the world in Carver.

Of course, we don't know the draw of that tournament yet and Iowa could get AK-Anchorage, Pepperdine or TCU and then it wouldn't do much for the Hawks.
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How about losing to Indiana State or Denver? That would be just like this year against Wichita St, except even worse.

What about putting Missouri on the schedule?
 
rodthompson said:
Yea, that is still going to do very little to impress anyone. Hopefully they can schedule somebody straight up. No risk, no reward in my opinion.
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The RPI won't care, though. If you are playing teams that are something like 100 or better instead of teams in the 300's, the RPI will like you much better regardless of WHO those opponents actually are.
 
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