09-10 Schedule

by thecassino on Jun 5, 2009 3:09 PM PDT Comment 4 comments

11/04/09 vs. Central Washington (Exhibition)
11/13/09 vs. Wright State
11/14/09 vs. Belmont
11/15/09 vs. Portland State
11/20/09 vs. San Jose State
11/29/09 vs. Montana
12/03/09 at Texas Tech
12/06/09 vs. Cal State Northridge
12/12/09 vs. TBA, John R. Wooden Classic
12/19/09 vs. Portland
12/22/09 vs. Texas A&M
12/27/09 vs. San Francisco
12/31/09 vs. Oregon State
01/02/10 vs. Oregon
01/07/10 at Arizona State
01/09/10 at Arizona
01/14/10 vs. California
01/16/10 vs. Stanford
01/21/10 at UCLA
01/23/10 at USC
01/26/10 vs. Seattle University
01/30/10 vs. Washington State
02/04/10 vs. Arizona
02/06/10 vs. Arizona State
02/11/10 at Stanford
02/13/10 at California
02/18/10 vs. USC
02/20/10 vs. UCLA
02/27/10 at Washington State
03/04/10 at Oregon
03/06/10 at Oregon State

30 very winnable games. I love this schedule. Starts off light (and at home, as the loss @Portland last year in the opener was a lesson learned), and the first test of the season will likely be Texas Tech in Lubbock. Depending on who else plays in the Wooden Classic, that could be a tough one. A&M will be a solid squad next year, but we get them at home. Then we get into Pac-10 play, which is really a discussion for another day, but long story short: the Pac-10 is going to be VERY weak next year. The only teams that are a threat to a second consecutive title are Cal and UCLA. Everybody else either got worse (Arizona, Arizona State, Stanford, USC, WSU) or wasn't any good to begin with (Oregon, Oregon State).

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see 27 or 28 wins next year prior to postseason play. I like the schedule that much. And I think that something like 24 wins is the absolute floor (again, before tournaments).

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Personally,

I’d rather see them play a more challenging non-conference schedule.

They should easily qualify for the NCAA tournament through the Pac-10, but they sure wouldn’t get there through their RPI.

I think that competition on the national level would better prepare them for the post-season, get the program better exposure, and bring in more excitement at home.

I also dislike the Seattle U game in the middle of the season. It’s better than last year (given, that was a fluke), but nothing good can come of playing vastly inferior talent that late, and a lot of bad can happen.

by Verge on Jun 6, 2009 9:34 AM PDT reply actions

RPI is meaningless

And the committee has gotten away from using it in the last few years.

Don’t let the lack of a ton of big names fool you, there are some good teams on the schedule. There are games against 2 Big-12 teams, one of which was in the NCAA tournament (A&M), Portland State and Cal State Northridge were NCAA tournament teams, and Belmont and Portland were in the CIT. Plus the game in the John Wooden Classic will likely be against a team that will be tournament caliber. So of the 12 non-conference games, 6 of the teams made a postseason tournament last year, and a 7th is from a Big-6 conference.

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by thecassino on Jun 6, 2009 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions

Romar Has Built a Great Program

I agree w/ the cassino in that the Pac 10 will be down next year. Hell it wasn’t great last season. Even during our back to back non NCAA tournament seasons I thought coach Romar has(had) a great program building in Huskyville. The metro region of Seattle has become a hotbed for basketball talent. Prior to Romar that talent was leaving town. With Romar we are keeping some of the gifted talent at home, where in future years this could become what Arizona once was. If Romar stays on long term he could build something to the equivelent that Lute had at Arizona.

I get your drift Verge about the easy non league slate, it appears to be non-competitive. But the way the Pac 10 schedule is scheduled we dive right into a league meat grinder. So I think it all balances out.

Ben Howland at Ucla needs to re-evaluate his recruiting efforts. His initial class at Ucla was awesome and hit homeruns years following. But the last couple of classes sucked in terms of no return investment.

Arizona is a sinking ship, not sure if hiring the Xavier coach was the right choice. Oregon is dazed and confused on the hardwood floor and it’s not good going into a season juggling the thought of keeping coach around or firing him.

Two programs I see blossoming are Stanford and Oregon State. Johnny Dawkins has all of coach K’s mannerisms down. Hell the guy looks like coach K on the sideline. Robinson at OSU appears turning things around in Corvallis, helps when you are the brother-in-law to the current president of the United States. I’d love to see Oregon State become a basketball power from the Pac 10 again.

WSU basketball is officially over! The Cougs were good simply because they created a matchup problem- they played stall ball with a shot clock. I didn’t think that was possible. But the Bennetts found a way to make it work. Now that the Bennetts have left Pullman, the matchup problem won’t exist anymore. Basketball is about matchups. The more versatile you are as a team the more chances you have to win.

I couldn’t be more pleased with coach Romar, the man has brought winning basketball to Huskyville. I believe the next step is to advance to the Elite 8, which I think is obtainable next season.

Go Huskies! WOOF!!!

All I saw was purple

by crazidawg on Jun 6, 2009 4:00 PM PDT reply actions

Oregon State and Stanford could be good down the road

And I expect Oregon State to be in the top half of the conference next year, but it’s going to be a while before they have the talent to compete with the top teams in the conference. Stanford lost 3 of their 4 best players, and Oregon State didn’t have much talent last year. It’s still a mystery to me how Oregon State won as many games as they did last year because they were terrible on both sides of the ball.

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by thecassino on Jun 6, 2009 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions