What’s this all about?

[MHettel]

Has anyone else noticed all these D1 teams playing teams you never heard of? Every night a couple mid level D1 teams beat someone 120-65.

Back in the day, you’d see MAYBE a handful of games a year against a non D1 teams, and those would all be early in the year.

Miami OH beat a team called BethanyWV tonight 112-70. Cam Kraft had 30 fucking 4 points. He was 12 for 21 in 22 minutes, including TEN of 16 from 3.

Like, does this actually count towards Cam Krafts stats this year?

Miami played 15 guys. The other team played TWENTY dudes! How is that possible?

Why are teams doing this? Every night I notice 3-5 games like this. Was never this way in the past

[GoMuskies]

I remember Xavier playing the District of Columbia one year and winning by about 70.

There are 364 Division I teams. The bottom of the Division I barrel (which would include anyone willing to employ Steele after seeing what he did to our program) need the easy buy game wins, too, and sometimes that means you gotta play an NAIA or Division II school.

[X-band '01]

You're allowed a maximum of 4 games/open exhibition games against non-D1 teams. Just way too many.

I remember Miami playing Saint Mary's of the Woods one year and was wondering why they were playing a college from Caddyshack.

[nuts4xu]

Cam Kraft had 30 fucking 4 points. He was 12 for 21 in 22 minutes, including TEN of 16 from 3.

Like, does this actually count towards Cam Krafts stats this year?



No but it counts towards Kam Craft's stats.

Why can't people get this kid's name right? :loco:

[xubrew]

Has anyone else noticed all these D1 teams playing teams you never heard of? Every night a couple mid level D1 teams beat someone 120-65.

Back in the day, you’d see MAYBE a handful of games a year against a non D1 teams, and those would all be early in the year.

Miami OH beat a team called BethanyWV tonight 112-70. Cam Kraft had 30 fucking 4 points. He was 12 for 21 in 22 minutes, including TEN of 16 from 3.

Like, does this actually count towards Cam Krafts stats this year?

Miami played 15 guys. The other team played TWENTY dudes! How is that possible?

Why are teams doing this? Every night I notice 3-5 games like this. Was never this way in the past

You started to see more and more of this right after COVID. I think during the COVID year teams started scheduling more of these because it simplified things with all the protocols in place at the time, and then just decided they liked having a team on their schedule that they could beat the crap out of, so they kept doing it. That's the best guess I have.

But, it's dumb. The players don't like it. The fans don't like it. None of the major metrics even count those games. It's just about head coaches wanting to pad their win totals. Nothing more. The NCAA needs to cut the number of games against nonD1 opponents from four down to two. Or...even just one.

[94GRAD]

Has anyone else noticed all these D1 teams playing teams you never heard of? Every night a couple mid level D1 teams beat someone 120-65.

Back in the day, you’d see MAYBE a handful of games a year against a non D1 teams, and those would all be early in the year.

Miami OH beat a team called BethanyWV tonight 112-70. Cam Kraft had 30 fucking 4 points. He was 12 for 21 in 22 minutes, including TEN of 16 from 3.

Like, does this actually count towards Cam Krafts stats this year?

Miami played 15 guys. The other team played TWENTY dudes! How is that possible?

Why are teams doing this? Every night I notice 3-5 games like this. Was never this way in the past

*Kam Craft

[drudy23]

For a school in the MAC and any other 1 bid (likely) conference, their schedules and metrics are meaningless.

[GoMuskies]

For a school in the MAC and any other 1 bid (likely) conference, their schedules and metrics are meaningless.

I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure it's quite true of the MAC. MAC teams have been able to get fairly decent seeds in the NCAA Tournament, and there's a pretty massive difference between an 11 seed and a 14 seed in terms of chances to advance to the second round (which is really what MAC teams are after).

Certainly true of like the MEAC, SWAC, America East, etc. I guess some of those teams might hope to avoid the play-in game or maybe get a 15 instead of a 16, but for the most part they are the worst of the worst and headed for first round smackdowns.

[drudy23]

I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure it's quite true of the MAC. MAC teams have been able to get fairly decent seeds in the NCAA Tournament, and there's a pretty massive difference between an 11 seed and a 14 seed in terms of chances to advance to the second round (which is really what MAC teams are after).

Certainly true of like the MEAC, SWAC, America East, etc. I guess some of those teams might hope to avoid the play-in game or maybe get a 15 instead of a 16, but for the most part they are the worst of the worst and headed for first round smackdowns.

Unless you're consistently at the top of the MAC, I don't think most of those schools are building their schedules for at-large or seeding purposes.

In Miami's case, it honestly doesn't matter outside of program pride.