Amore: Home & Homes with AZ, Ohio State

[OkaForPrez]

Dom Amore ‏@AmoreCourant 12s
#UConn men's hoop - will play home/home series Ohio State (dec 2015 &16) then vs Arizona (dec 2017 & 2018) details http://courant.com

 

[tcf15]

That no good stinkin' Amore.

 

[OkaForPrez]

Dom Amore ‏@AmoreCourant 1m
#uconn men still hoping to renew some old Big East rivalries, but nothing concrete yet on that front .Also interested in extending With Fla.

 

[Scot-e]

Those are two amazing OOC games! We are really turning it up to balance our doodie of a conference.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Great gets by Warde and co.

Either game is likely to be the highlight of the home schedule. Would love one big OOC game at Gampel and XL but that's probably very difficult.

Very happy with this.

 

[Tenspro2002]

I love it -- although a little weird to be scheduling games 4 years out.

 

[jibsey]

At this point I'll take it, anything to make this conference work. Maybe not going through a sausage grinder conference schedule can actually be to some advantage for us.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Where can I get tickets for the Tucson game?
Note to AZHuskie ,I'll buy if you drive.

 

[Stainmaster]

I love it -- although a little weird to be scheduling games 4 years out.

With all of the uncertainty surrounding this "P5" junk, scheduling these games closer to the date of might not be a viable option. Good on Warde for ensuring that we'll continue to have some beef in future NC schedules.

 

[UChusky916]

I love it -- although a little weird to be scheduling games 4 years out.

Those are two amazing OOC games! We are really turning it up to balance our doodie of a conference.

Hopefully we are out of AAC by the Ohio St. games. It's a good start, but this isn't good enough to compensate for the lack of quality opponents in the AAC. Its one quality game per year.

 

[AstarIsBorn31]

Hopefully we are out of AAC by the Ohio St. games. It's a good start, but this isn't good enough to compensate for the lack of quality opponents in the AAC. Its one quality game per year.

Yea I hope we can move out of the AAC by then but that is looking difficult. Im glad we were able to lock these too big schools up. These games for sure will be more UCONN "dogfights"

 

[Inyatkin]

So what happens when we're in the Big 10 in 2016? Three Ohio State games? That would work.

 

[amory]

lol damn I thought I was on the football board when I read the title and I nearly fell out of my chair

 

[dsturdy5]

Hopefully we are out of AAC by the Ohio St. games. It's a good start, but this isn't good enough to compensate for the lack of quality opponents in the AAC. Its one quality game per year.

When put in context of other tweets about UF and former BE rivalries, it makes sense to spread these out to allow for more flexibility with other schools. Remember, the game with Puke for this season wasn't announced until this past May. Stuff can come together quickly.

 

[3uconn]

For Arizona the 2017 game will be in Arizona and the 2018 game with be our home game.

@JonRothstein: UConn + Arizona will begin a H + H series starting in Tucson during the 17-18 season, per release. Return game in Storrs the following year.

 

[3uconn]

The OSU 2015 game will be in CT and the 2016 game in Ohio.

@JonRothstein: UConn + Ohio St will begin a H + H series starting in CT during the 15-16 season, per release. Return game in Columbus the following year.

 

[dsturdy5]

Just told my buddy about these games. He's a BCU ticket holder. His reply, "We just signed a h/h with Bryant. That's like the same, right?"

ACC! ACC!

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Can't wait to see freescooter's analysis.

 

[Jerry1714]

Winter trip to Tuscon for golf and the Huskies? Yes please

 

[7774]

Hopefully we are out of AAC by the Ohio St. games. It's a good start, but this isn't good enough to compensate for the lack of quality opponents in the AAC. Its one quality game per year.

Why do we need to compensate? Our schedule obviously prepared us adequately last year.

 

[UChusky916]

Why do we need to compensate? Our schedule obviously prepared us adequately last year.

We played Louisville 3 times last year. They're gone.

 

[Walker11]

Why do we need to compensate? Our schedule obviously prepared us adequately last year.

Maybe the team was sufficiently prepared, but they were also under seeded 2-3 lines. It was a terrific run but a more stacked schedule will always help with seeding.

 

[Silk31]

These are some great gets in terms of keeping up with the strong OOC scheduling. Should be very interesting games featuring great programs.
These are the type of matchups that we fans look forward to, not to mention needing them for SOS & RPI purposes

 

[Walker11]

Zona and the mega-Nike tournament makes a nice start to 2017.

 

[AstarIsBorn31]

Maybe the team was sufficiently prepared, but they were also under seeded 2-3 lines. It was a terrific run but a more stacked schedule will always help with seeding.

Exactly and as we see with the NCAA seeding it doesnt exactly lean towards the AAC way.. Louisville got screwed over with seeding and SMU got snubbed in my opinion.