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Tournament Thread 2017 Maui Invitational Announced

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Marquette vs. VCU
Wichita State vs. California

Notre Dame vs. Chaminade
Michigan vs. LSU

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Dream draw for us in terms of building a non con schedule.

That VCU game is probably our biggest of the year.

Beat them and you get a high RPI neutral court win. And then get games vs WSU and ND/Michigan. Even if we lose both that's a great schedule.

Lose to VCU tho and looking at Cal and LSU who could be sub 100.
 

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Dream draw for us in terms of building a non con schedule.

That VCU game is probably our biggest of the year.

Beat them and you get a high RPI neutral court win. And then get games vs WSU and ND/Michigan. Even if we lose both that's a great schedule.

Lose to VCU tho and looking at Cal and LSU who could be sub 100.

I never thought of it like that. Marquette could leave Maui having played 3 top 50 teams(saying top 50 to include VCU, I think WSU and ND/Michigan are top 25 teams. Having looked at the rest of Marquette's OOC schedule, I think this will be by far the best OOC schedule under Wojo. Looks like Chicago State and American are the only RPI SOS killers on the schedule. I think last year Marquette had 5 such games.
 

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I never thought of it like that. Marquette could leave Maui having played 3 top 50 teams(saying top 50 to include VCU, I think WSU and ND/Michigan are top 25 teams. Having looked at the rest of Marquette's OOC schedule, I think this will be by far the best OOC schedule under Wojo. Looks like Chicago State and American are the only RPI SOS killers on the schedule. I think last year Marquette had 5 such games.

Yeah it's a more in depth look but things set up nicely if we beat VCU which I think we should do on paper. And we also have a shot if we faced Michigan.

Getting Vermont was huge for the schedule. They are going to collect wins like candy again this year.
 

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Yeah it's a more in depth look but things set up nicely if we beat VCU which I think we should do on paper. And we also have a shot if we faced Michigan.

Getting Vermont was huge for the schedule. They are going to collect wins like candy again this year.

Yeah, that was similar to the Gophers playing UT-Arlington last year. It's like I've said before, it's more about avoiding the truly awful opponents in the non conference, rather than playing a bunch of top 50 teams. I'm already disappointed that the Gophers are have two sub 280 teams lined up for next year.
 

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Yeah, that was similar to the Gophers playing UT-Arlington last year. It's like I've said before, it's more about avoiding the truly awful opponents in the non conference, rather than playing a bunch of top 50 teams. I'm already disappointed that the Gophers are have two sub 280 teams lined up for next year.

Gophers really got the shaft being the clear best team in their 4 team tourney.

Playing Umass sucks
 

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Gophers really got the shaft being the clear best team in their 4 team tourney.

Playing Umass sucks

Yeah and Alabama A&M and Western Carolina are the other two exempt games we get for being in that tournament. Alabama A&M might literally be the worst team in the country. Western Carolina was like in the 290's or something, and then we get Umass who will be a bottom feeder A10 team next year. Not sure the top half of our games(Miami, Providence, Bama/BYU, Arkansas) will make up for it.
 

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Yeah and Alabama A&M and Western Carolina are the other two exempt games we get for being in that tournament. Alabama A&M might literally be the worst team in the country. Western Carolina was like in the 290's or something, and then we get Umass who will be a bottom feeder A10 team next year. Not sure the top half of our games(Miami, Providence, Bama/BYU, Arkansas) will make up for it.

Yeah those are also gonna be killer.

Non con is all about smart strategy. Gophs played a relatively easy schedule last year but it rated out great because they didn't play the cupcakes with extra frosting
 

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Yeah those are also gonna be killer.

Non con is all about smart strategy. Gophs played a relatively easy schedule last year but it rated out great because they didn't play the cupcakes with extra frosting

Yeah, that's precisely what they did. And teams like FSU, Arkansas, Vandy and UT-Arlington turned out to be better than projected. I think this year's schedule could still finish in the top 100, but it wouldn't surprise me if it finished outside of that.
 

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Michigan will destroy LSU then get destroyed but WSU, ND or VCU.

I think ND/Mich would be an intriguing game. I think both are top 25 caliber. Why are you down on Michigan for next year? I think they might even be better than they were last year.
 

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Kind of a lackluster field this year
 

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I think ND/Mich would be an intriguing game. I think both are top 25 caliber. Why are you down on Michigan for next year? I think they might even be better than they were last year.
The PG situation is much worse.
 

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The PG situation is much worse.

I think the transfer from Ohio will do quite well. He won't do as good as Walton, but replacing Irvin with Matthews in the starting line up is an upgrade. So that too me will be a wash. Plus, in theory Wagner should improve, to offset the loss of losing Wilson early. Michigan is still a really intriguing team to me next year, may play small ball around Wagner. Not sure if you remember the days when Beilein was at WVU with Pittsnoggle and company, but this could be a similar type of team.
 

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Great looking field this year. Definitely be watching.
 

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One of the best early season tournaments gets going today. Maui has always been my favorite one.
 

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This is just a sloppy, sloppy game.

Difference between winning and losing is huge

Marquette doing everything to let VCU stay in

VCU sucks and we just run out of control everytime we get up 5
 

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Wins a win.

Now we get to lose the next 2 games but it beats playing garbage teams.

Casual fan probably loved watching this game tho. Insane pace.
 

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Hate that the first semi is the first game Tomo. I wonder the reasoning? And the other semi is on late
 
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