Full Tulsa MBB schedule released for 2018-19
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There is also the small matter of when this game was even scheduled. From 2009 - 2016, Nevada was not an expected loss for Tulsa. So that would make the entire discussion moot. 
You get better by playing good opponents. I appreciate the importance of scheduling but it’s also important to, you know, actually get better. This team needs some good challenges before conference starts.
And I’m glad we have a real game before rolling into Stillwater. If losing to Nevada means we’re more ready to beat OSU, then I’m all for it.
And I’m glad we have a real game before rolling into Stillwater. If losing to Nevada means we’re more ready to beat OSU, then I’m all for it.
I don't think they schedule quite that far out.There is also the small matter of when this game was even scheduled. From 2009 - 2016, Nevada was not an expected loss for Tulsa. So that would make the entire discussion moot.
OSU is going to be really bad this season...especially prior to second semester.
We have football games on the schedule out to 2024. I don't think basketball is scheduled nearly that far out because there are simply more slots and more teams available, but I don't think scheduling a basketball game a couple years in advance would be unheard of (2016... 2017, 2018).
We didn't schedule this game.
It's part of a tournament. We agreed to play in it, the tournament either randomly (doubtful) or intentionally made the match ups.
I am sure we knew Nevada was in it. Not sure we asked for the match up. If I'm Haith, I did though. Nov/Dec is a long ways from March.
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It's in Vegas, which is 90% non locals/Nevada state people.
The tickets aren't going to Nevada's season ticket holders first.
It's ridiculously cheap for everyone to get to and has other options for entertainment. If you don't want the crowd to be huge in Nevada's favor go. With gas prices increasing your plane ticket won't cost much more than what the Nevada fans will pay to drive.
Which are all reasons why scheduling a neutral game is better than scheduling at their place.
That’s what I’ve heard but we still have a knack for screwing the proverbial pooch with instate teams. Getting a tough game in advance hopefully will have the guys focused and ready to go all in.
Nevada has nearly sold out their stadium for season tickets. Just a wild stab in the dark that they would out number us by a lot more in Reno.
Of course I am sure dealing with that sort of crowd would never help us prepare for Cincy and their 97% season ticket capacity new gym, or wichita's 13 year old sold out crowds, Memphis 10,000, Uconns, 10,000, or Temple's crowds and SMU's packed house. I mean hell even Houston has a new gym.
Would've been a lot easier to get a Q1 win against a slightly worse team at an actual neutral site tournament. Heck, even a Q2 win would be better than a Q1 loss. There are tons of early season tournaments... this seems like one of the dumbest ones any team could have scheduled. If you look, you won't see any of our conference mates having scheduled an early season tournament that included a top 25 caliber team in that team's home state.
I bet you also complained last Christmas when you got a brown pony instead of the black pony you really wanted.
Lol. It's not the worst scheduling mistake in the world (not like Dougie's crap schedules) but it doesn't give our team their best opportunity to make the tournament either.
Our goal every season should be to give our team the easiest route to the tournament that we can get until we have a program that can really do some damage and make tournaments without needing scheduling gimmicks (e.g. our 80's and late 90's programs). Some of that (conference scheduling) is out of our hands... but things like which early season tournament we play in are very much up to the coach. He could have done a bit better is all I'm sayin.
They wouldn't of even had a solid clue till late season/after ncaa tournament last year that Nevada would be that tough of a matchup. I'm betting that they were added to the schedule earlier in the year than that.
Nevada looked like a tough matchup all season. No, we didn't know who all they'd have coming back, but they looked tough way before the NCAA's.
remember, his thoughts have nothing to do with our program but his issues with Haith. He is still bitter that his favorite coach was fired
“We choose to play Nevada. We choose to play Nevada in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
- President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (kinda)
- President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (kinda)
So when are we going to devote as significant a portion of the school's funds to the basketball team as JFK did with the GDP of the US and the space program?
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