General Basketball Thread for 2024-25

[mat1992]

JMU is coming 

https://x.com/madeformarch/status/1813622180229611918?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

[TuTigers2012]

5 hours ago, mat1992 said:

JMU is coming 

https://x.com/madeformarch/status/1813622180229611918?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

Good get.  My wife, the Jmu alum, hates this as now she has to go to the game 

[Blounge]

https://x.com/jonrothstein/status/1813717376044838919?s=46&t=_ArGClX3XZ7EdROrGIJtmw
 

What was once your run of the mil, mid CAA matchup Towson/JMU is now a major mid-major matchup. Call up monumental for this marquee feels like March match! 

i don’t think UMASS will ever play us again! who else is tough enough to come to SECU? Not Maryland!

[Chris Datres]

That's a good get to have JMU for a home-and-home.  I'm sure they're as strapped as we are to get opponents to schedule them.  That Bryant game will be a nice one to attend over Xmas.

[El Tigre Oro]

[TuTigers2012]

10 games on the books, looks like 3 more are needed. 2 of which should be after the season opener and before the home opener. Very meh, as usual..  Though 2 Saturday home games in OOC, before Christmas, is a rarity.

[TheGoldCrotchPiece]

need to add another game to that Cali trip. Plenty of mid major schools in the SoCal

[Bay Area Tiger]

1 hour ago, TuTigers2012 said:

10 games on the books, looks like 3 more are needed. 2 of which should be after the season opener and before the home opener. Very meh, as usual..  Though 2 Saturday home games in OOC, before Christmas, is a rarity.

UC Irvine lost to Utah in NIT.  They return their backcourt and their German big. They beat USC early in the season.  
The Anteaters share the ball.  Been a solid mid major for a decade now. 

[TuTigers2012]

2 hours ago, TheGoldCrotchPiece said:

need to add another game to that Cali trip. Plenty of mid major schools in the SoCal

Would make too much sense.  CAA needs to get a conference partner or atleast release their league schedule earlier. Since there are 5000 teams in the conference, can play an ooc against one you don’t play twice. 

47 minutes ago, Bay Area Tiger said:

UC Irvine lost to Utah in NIT.  They return their backcourt and their German big. They beat USC early in the season.  
The Anteaters share the ball.  Been a solid mid major for a decade now. 

And one of the coolest nicknames in sports 

[Tiger93]

On 7/23/2024 at 3:51 PM, TuTigers2012 said:

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10 games on the books, looks like 3 more are needed. 2 of which should be after the season opener and before the home opener. Very meh, as usual..  Though 2 Saturday home games in OOC, before Christmas, is a rarity.

Other than the non D-1 team, which we all hate, this is a mostly solid non-conference schedule. We open against a top 25-30 caliber team. I don't know what JMU will be next year, but despite the fact they were in our conference which makes it less exciting, they were still a second-round NCAA Tournament team last year and a damn good one. Kent State is one year removed from a very good year and UC Irvine was a 24-win team.

Nicholls State and Bryant aren't great, but they are decent low major teams. We also owe two to Bryant. That loss last year was probably the most absurd Towson loss I can remember since the infamous Derrick Newton game against Drexel. I am always fine playing 1-2 locals, and the rest are as you say meh. Not amazing, but fairly solid. I believe Skerry when he talks about the difficulties of putting a schedule together. The other thing that stinks is we have been disappointing in non-conference the last two years so anyone who might have wanted to play us after 2022-23 thinking it was a decent mid-major RPI game has not seen that from us the last two years (or probably ever prior to that). What is realistically missing that you would want, outside of a major conference team actually coming to Towson and maybe being part of a tournament with more big name teams? 

Maybe to your point, the last two years our non-conference has been set up to be decent, but both our team and our opponents have been major disappointments. It would be nice to have some good opponents and for us to replicate the effort we had in 2022-23 in non-conference play. That is the best RPI/NET I have ever seen this program accumulate.