Basketball schedule tidbits

[Notsince1985]

Conversely, UM hoops wisely has gone the other direction under this staff, booking a non-conference schedule that was ranked fourth-toughest last season and will be difficult again this winter, with home games against four teams well above .500 last season (LaSalle, Loyola of Maryland, Central Florida and Norfolk State) and road games at College of Charleston, Nebraska and three undetermined games in a loaded Anaheim Thanksgiving tournament featuring Marquette, San Diego State, Arizona State, among others.

"There’s a lot of evidence that if you don’t challenge yourself in non-conference and are around .500 in a BCS league, they don’t [invite] you” to the NCAA Tournament,” UM assistant coach Eric Konkol said.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sports-buzz/#storylink=cpy

 

[arizonacane]

Gotta like the intensity of Coach L and his staff. Recruits want to play in big games.

 

[AZHurricane]

I liked the baseball tidbit in that article as well.

### UM baseball has made two slight adjustments to try to boost a program that hasn’t made the College World Series since 2008.

UM is recruiting a few less players who are very likely to go pro because “it doesn’t do us any good if they sign and don’t show up on campus,” assistant coach Gino DiMare said. Also, UM is now recruiting more nationally --- it has commitments from the top players in Colorado (a hitter) and Illinois (a pitcher). “We probably focused too much on this area,” DiMare said.

 

[Consigliere]

"There’s a lot of evidence that if you don’t challenge yourself in non-conference and are around .500 in a BCS league, they don’t [invite] you” to the NCAA Tournament,” UM assistant coach Eric Konkol said.

If you are .500 in the new ACC, you are in the tourney. If you get 8 wins (8-10) you may get a bid too.

Our conference is loaded, we replaced Maryland with 4 very good basketball teams (Pitt, ND, Cuse and Ville).

 

[joshdacane]

Gotta like the intensity of Coach L and his staff. Recruits want to play in big games.

While I wouldn't say that any of those are marquee games (and I don't blame the staff, considering how many question marks we have), the point is that none of our guarantee games - against Loyola and Norfolk State, for example - are against minnows at this point.

That being said, in a year that we play in an exempt tournament (which counts as one game), you can play 27 other games. With 18 conference games and the 6 announced above, there are three games that either haven't been scheduled or haven't been announced. I believe we are looking for one road game, which means that I suspect the other two are against Atlantic Sun teams like Stetson or Jacksonville.

 

[CaneDaddy]

I liked the baseball tidbit in that article as well.

### UM baseball has made two slight adjustments to try to boost a program that hasn’t made the College World Series since 2008.

UM is recruiting a few less players who are very likely to go pro because “it doesn’t do us any good if they sign and don’t show up on campus,” assistant coach Gino DiMare said. Also, UM is now recruiting more nationally --- it has commitments from the top players in Colorado (a hitter) and Illinois (a pitcher). “We probably focused too much on this area,” DiMare said.

I think this is being over looked. DiMare just gets it.