udump's Murderer's Row

[Masterofreality]

After going 2-2 against the cake part of their schedule, udump now moves to the gauntlet. What a schedule for them for the next month and a half:

November 28 Towson
December 2 at Miami (OH) Loss
December 5 Lehigh
December 8 at George Mason Loss
December 11 Old Dominion
December 19 Presbyterian
December 21 Appalachian State
December 29 Boston University
January 1 at New Mexico Loss
January 5 Ball State

My Gawd. How can they survive that?

Note: Losses in red are for entertainment purposes only. Please, please. No wagering.

[CinciX12]

Now wait a second, maybe UD did accomplish something with that schedule.

I don't know how to go about looking it up, but I would venture to guess out of the top 10 conferences, that is the worst SOS hands down.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Now wait a second, maybe UD did accomplish something with that schedule.

I don't know how to go about looking it up, but I would venture to guess out of the top 10 conferences, that is the worst SOS hands down.

Definitely not. Their schedule looks similar to last years and their SOS was 33rd. Some of those teams are pretty bad but a decent amount of them, while not having the big name, are good teams.

[vee4xu]

That schedule is the perfect heap of garbage for the dump in which the games are played.

[waggy]

You guys realize this has already been covered about 4000 times? Off to Smack..

[vee4xu]

You guys realize this has already been covered about 4000 times? Off to Smack..

Sorry, I can be a little slow.

[Masterofreality]

You guys realize this has already been covered about 4000 times? Off to Smack..

It hasn't been covered in the last day.

House of Smack is fine, as that was the original intent.

It never gets old ragging on dump's crap scheduling. The fact is, as I was trying to show by the red losses, that despite playing no Big 6 teams, the cryers can easily lose 3 of those games. By not shooting high and going mediocre, they very possibly shoot themselves in the foot. Even though George Mason and New Mexico are pretty tough games and Miami is no gimme on the road, by the time those teams get done with their conference schedules, their RPI and SOS will be downers to the dump's numbers.

Stupidity rules next to the Ghetto.

[boozehound]

I love how UD fans like to talk about the tough schedule that they have played in comparison to the soft schedule that X has had so far.

We have our tests coming up, and our OOC schedule is a gauntlet. When all is said and done, and conference play starts, I am confident that it will be X that is raking in the Top 25, if not the top 15.

We will see how our freshmen react to the upcoming tests, but let's not forget that Dante and Love have played in the Elite 8, and Holloway, Redford, and McClean were part of a Sweet 16 team. It's not like these kids haven't faced adversity and tasted success.

I am confident that X will prove themselves in the OOC schedule. It needs to start tomorrow with Marquette!!!!

[nuts4xu]

Just another reminder that dayton still sucks ass.

Chris Wright can leap tall buildings in a single bound....but that team still sucks ass.

F them and all the watermelons they have fornicated with in the past few years.

Yuck!

[boozehound]

I wonder if thanksgiving is a time when Dayton players spend time with their family, reflect on what they are thankful for, and then screw a pumpkin instead of a Watermelon.

[xubrew]

Definitely not. Their schedule looks similar to last years and their SOS was 33rd. Some of those teams are pretty bad but a decent amount of them, while not having the big name, are good teams.

ud's sos last year was 95th, not 33rd. the atlantic ten actually raised the level of it, not lowered it.

this year's schedule is much tougher, though. in addition to the four teams they opened with, old dominion is most likely an at-large team. new mexico just had one loss at home last year, and george mason didn't have any. ud is facing both of them on the road. the brand names might not be all that much more recognizable to the casual fan, but this year's ud schedule is night and day compared to last year's.

[D-West & PO-Z]

ud's sos last year was 95th, not 33rd. the atlantic ten actually raised the level of it, not lowered it.

this year's schedule is much tougher, though. in addition to the four teams they opened with, old dominion is most likely an at-large team. new mexico just had one loss at home last year, and george mason didn't have any. ud is facing both of them on the road. the brand names might not be all that much more recognizable to the casual fan, but this year's ud schedule is night and day compared to last year's.

http://www.kenpom.com/rpi.php?s=6

The above link says their SOS was 33rd and their OOC SOS was better at 28. Do you have a link that says differently?

EDIT: Maybe this is the year before last. It just says 2008.

[AdamtheFlyer]

You're using Kenpom, who goes on his own adjusted ranking system. It's a better ranking, but not the one that matters. Brew has the right numbers according to what the NCAA uses. The OOC SOS was actually in the 150s.

I agree with Brew. The names won't jump off the page, but the quality of teams UD will play is overall solid. Not great, but solid. I think they could lose the GMU and NM games and still not be behind the 8 ball. Split them and they'll be in good shape. I would suspect the OOC SOS will fall somewhere between 75-85, and if the A10 does what it should OOC the overall SOS should end somewhere in the 50s range.

Beating GT really helped, even though they lost the next two, because they added a Final Four caliber Nova and a good KSU team to the schedule vs second matchups with GMU and BU. Those losses sucked in the moment, but in the end I think the overall resume will be better than if they went 2-1 with a GT loss then wins over GMU and Boston.