A very reasonable schedule overall. Depending on what the "TBD" game is, we should hopefully be arriving in Hawaii no worse than 7-3. Not overlooking what Speedy Claxton has done at Hofstra for sure and it's a road game on top of that. Hopefully the UC San Diego game is won this year.

 

Should be 7-2 heading to Hawaii by my reckoning, as only two schools (Hofstra and South Carolina) finished the year with a better KenPom rating than us (226). Hopefully we are at least as good as last year with the new coaching staff, understanding that we lost 2 of our top 3 scorers but hoping the new coaches can get more out of those who are left and significant contributions from the new guys.

The schedule is good for me. Mostly easy games with a couple tougher ones mixed in early on, then a tournament with at least one game against a top tier team before starting the A10 slate.

Kind of a training wheels schedule, as noted. Virginia State? But that's where we are.
Wouldn't want to see this in the future if we have postseason aspirations anymore.

Virginia State? A D-2 school that's not an exhibition game? I thought the NCAA and the A-10 eliminated D-1 schools from scheduling regular season games against lower divisions other than tourney's (Chaminade in Hawaii, Great Alaska Shootout).

Weakest non-conference schedule I have seen in 30+ years of following GW Basketball.

Our SOS factor will be one of the lowest in all of D-1.

Keep Raising High!

Looking for a bright side, we have become the answer to a trivia question.  We will be Loyola-Chicago's first ever A10 opponent.

This is a day to feel nostalgic.  Remember when we would enter into a season with realistic aspirations of winning a conference tournament or somehow reaching the postseason?  Yes my friends, those were the days when I would be screaming "What the Fuck" at the top of my lungs over a schedule like this one.  It would negatively impact our RPI (not NET since we haven't had this dilemma since the NET was invented) and subsequently, our chances for making the dance, or what our seed would be.

How times have changed.  Two friends have called me today to ask my opinion regarding the schedule.  Allow me to sum it up with the following clip.  Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FlOtHsOL6M
 

PKGW wrote:

Is that from Meatballs? Man that is a throw back

Of course this is from Meatballs.  A very underappreciated comedy IMO.


Now, virgins, on the left, non-virgins on the right....

Very interesting how our conference schedule breaks.  This is neither a prediction nor is it likely to happen, but GW could begin conference play 0-6, followed by a 10 game winning streak, and then losing the final 2 to go 10-8.  Again, not likely to happen, but my point is that GW's very toughest games occur during the beginning and end of the conference season.

GW Men's Basketball@GW_MBB[/url] We've added a home game with Maryland Eastern Shore on November 18 to complete our non-conference schedule. : gwsports.com/sports/mens-ba… #RaiseHigh[url=https://t.co/Hs40SoPNW9] 11:52am · 12 Sep 2022 · TweetDeck

jf wrote:

Good find by BM.
What a great draw.
Guessing we have given up on the prospect of postseason play this year, which may be realistic, even if disheartening.
At least this is a Division 1 team, unlike the first non-exhibition game of the season.
But overall, seems like a nonconference schedule, a nearby, long-ago evil rival would have come up with. 

If you didn’t listen to it live, listen to CC’s WRGW interview when it’s available. There’s a method to this scheduling madness. Long story short, teams should try to go .700 in OOC play with a majority of games being at home. That is an at large bid benchmark and/or something that helps the A-10 as a whole.  This is a schedule that should get us to that mark.

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I would likewise take a bloated record against a wek OOC schedule at this point, especially if we are respectable (at least 500() in conference.  Maybe next season I can worry about whether our OOC schedule is impacting our post season invitations, but for this season, I would just like to demonstrate that we have again become a winning program.    It has to be easier to recruit at 19-12 than it is at 12-19.