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Post by jefframp on Nov 25, 2019 9:19:55 GMT -8
The write up says it is part of the Continental Tire LV Classic but the Classic website does not mention our game and says the Classic starts on Thursday and our game is on Wednesday. Please explain if you can. Weird! www.orleansarena.com/event-calendar/continental-tire-las-vegas-invitationalEdit: Appears there is the "Invitational" on Thursday and Friday but we are part of the "Classic" which is a one off. Still seems weird but if it helps come PAC-12 Tournament time................ |
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Post by beaverbeliever71 on Nov 25, 2019 9:29:58 GMT -8
The write up says it is part of the Continental Tire LV Classic but the Classic website does not mention our game and says the Classic starts on Thursday and our game is on Wednesday. Please explain if you can. Weird! www.orleansarena.com/event-calendar/continental-tire-las-vegas-invitationalEdit: Appears there is the "Invitational" on Thursday and Friday but we are part of the "Classic" which is a one off. Still seems weird but if it helps come PAC-12 Tournament time................ I believe the UCSB, Grambling St, Portland State games are also part of the Las Vegas Classic but are campus games.. and they all play each other in Santa Barbara.. Plus this isnt the only one off tourney OSU plays in.. the UTSA game is in Houston and is part of the Battleground 2k Classic www.battleground2k.com/battleground2k/ |
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Post by osubeaver2018 on Nov 25, 2019 9:34:33 GMT -8
I thought the original plan was for us to play in the actual tournament rather than the one off before the season started. When the schedule was being discussed I thought WT was quoted saying that there was a Vegas tournament in the works, but maybe this was it the whole time? If that was the case I was hoping for a more high profile opponent as SJSU was picked to finish last in the Mountain West this year and was 4-27 last year. I have no idea if SJSU is improved this year to be fair. Anyone else know anything as to why it is just a one off game? It does seem weird to play this one off game at a neutral site against a mid-major opponent, same with the 2k battleground game against (0-6?) UTSA in December.
EDIT: UTSA is actually currently 1-5, but their only win is against NAIA Wiley College.
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Post by beaverbeliever71 on Nov 25, 2019 9:41:25 GMT -8
Who knows.. hard to know how much choice they had in what opponents they get to play in these events..could just be they wanted to play in them to get some games on the road
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Post by jefframp on Nov 25, 2019 9:43:59 GMT -8
If it were in the same arena as the PAC 12 Tournament it might make more sense but it isn't.
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Post by baseba1111 on Nov 25, 2019 11:27:33 GMT -8
Good question. It seems wins versus far inferior opponents, lowering the RPI is the goal?! I guess in some ways it doesn't matter as OSU isn't going to the tourney unless it finishes top 4 and wins at least one game in the Pac12 Tourney. Or 5th-7th with 20 wins, and wins 2+ games in the tourney (probably still a stretch).
This isn't football, easier to pick a schedule that gets your team prepped and prove it is indeed a tourney team when you've been once in 28 seasons.
Oiut of 353 D1 teams we play teams with current RPI (OSU currently at 65) with NC SOS 214):
339, 328, 289, 265, 215, 94
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Post by osubeaver2018 on Nov 25, 2019 11:35:21 GMT -8
Good question. It seems wins versus far inferior opponents, lowering the RPI is the goal?! I guess in some ways it doesn't matter as OSU isn't going to the tourney unless it finishes top 4 and wins at least one game in the Pac12 Tourney. Or 5th-7th with 20 wins, and wins 2+ games in the tourney (probably still a stretch). This isn't football, easier to pick a schedule that gets your team prepped and prove it is indeed a tourney team when you've been once in 28 seasons. Oiut of 353 D1 teams we play teams with current RPI (OSU currently at 65) with NC SOS 214): 339, 328, 289, 265, 215, 94 That's about my only complaint so far this season is that even though it seems there was a supposed effort to increase our non-conference SOS, it really isn't much different than years past. The games against Oklahoma and ISU I think are going to be better as the season moves along as both appear to be off to better than expected starts to their seasons (Oklahoma at least), but outside of that unless A&M does better in SEC play than expected or one of the lesser teams we've played over performs it's more of the same. Maybe A&M can get their NET ranking into the top 75 which would make that road game a quadrant 1 game at least but I'm not overly hopeful for that to happen. |
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