Any idea when the schedule gets released?

[aburks41]

Fans allowed back for the first time in 2 years and we have....CCSU, Coppin St, and Grambling as our OOC home opponents. That is an absolutely terrible look. This is probably the first time I've ever actually been disappointed with Benedict. That's a big fail on his part.

Call Texas, Florida, hell even Memphis or Houston. Just get someone with a recognizable name in Gampel

 

[Sphinx]

I had thought we were playing CCSU on Nov 13. Turns out it's CSU (Coppin State). Have we scheduled Central at all? If so, when?

 

[Storrs South]

I had thought we were playing CCSU on Nov 13. Turns out it's CSU (Coppin State). Have we scheduled Central at all? If so, when?

My guess is it is opening night or the day after which would be Tuesday the 9th or Wednesday the 10th. Historically UConn has started on a Friday night but maybe changed it up this year (Hurley's first year started on a Thursday and last year was a Wednesday, but also a COVID season so not entirely relevant with no fans).

With CSU on Saturday, they are probably playing 9th or 10th.

 

[Sphinx]

My guess is it is opening night or the day after which would be Tuesday the 9th or Wednesday the 10th. Historically UConn has started on a Friday night but maybe changed it up this year (Hurley's first year started on a Thursday and last year was a Wednesday, but also a COVID season so not entirely relevant with no fans).

With CSU on Saturday, they are probably playing 9th or 10th.

Thanks -- if we play CCSU on the 9th-10th, Coppin on the 13th and LIU on the 17th, Hurley might opt for a seven-day layoff ahead of the Battle4 -- to assess, plan the rotation, let any minor injuries heal. Wouldn't be surprised if we have the full November schedule right now.

 

[shizzle787]

Are we in the Gavitt games this year?

 

[Brochacho]

Fans allowed back for the first time in 2 years and we have....CCSU, Coppin St, and Grambling as our OOC home opponents. That is an absolutely terrible look. This is probably the first time I've ever actually been disappointed with Benedict. That's a big fail on his part.


Call Texas, Florida, hell even Memphis or Houston. Just get someone with a recognizable name in Gampel

I like the schedule for a few reasons:

1. We don’t know what COVID will be like 2-6 months from now so who knows if attendance will happen. I think it will, but you never know. Don’t know if it’s worth risking the economic benefit of a huge home game when attendance is uncertain.
2. Other side of COVID: if the games are open to the public, every seat is going to be filled no matter what we play.
3. We had a bad offense with a dynamic lottery pick. We need games to figure out the go to guys and overall flow of the offense while getting the freshmen involved. Crap teams provide that.
4. Schedule balancing. We still have to return the Florida game and are starting the BE/B12 on the road. UConn was looking for a home game this year and then a return game 2 years from now, which obviously nobody wanted. To get a big time home game this year we would’ve had an unbalanced schedule somewhere else down the line, most likely next year. Think you see a B12 home game and @Florida next year.

Also, Benedict does not handle basketball scheduling.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Are we in the Gavitt games this year?

No

 

[August_West]

Has to be my biggest complaint with Hurley. The staff doesn’t seem to concerned or aggressive when it comes to getting big time OOC games.

We are running a gauntlet in Atlantis. Big time ooc games is a deathwish.

 

[navery12]

We are running a gauntlet in Atlantis. Big time ooc games is a deathwish.

It's pretty funny because all the people complaining about not having more tough OOC games would be the first ones complaining if we lost them

 

[gampelcrazies]

We are running a gauntlet in Atlantis. Big time ooc games is a deathwish.

I meant to say they don’t seem too concerned about good home games. There schedule is good but none of the good games are at home. You need one good home game a year. Maybe they will shock us.

It's pretty funny because all the people complaining about not having more tough OOC games would be the first ones complaining if we lost them

I would never complain. I’d rather see less cupcake games. I believe that even if we lose to a good team early it helps in the long run.

 

[shizzle787]

I meant to say they don’t seem too concerned about good home games. There schedule is good but none of the good games are at home. You need one good home game a year. Maybe they will shock us.

I would never complain. I’d rather see less cupcake games. I believe that even if we lose to a good team early it helps in the long run.

Agree. I would rather play more good teams OOC and lose a few more but be better prepared for March.

 

[August_West]

Agree. I would rather play more good teams OOC and lose a few more but be better prepared for March.

You don’t make it to March if you “ lose a few more”

 

[shizzle787]

You don’t make it to March if you “ lose a few more”

Yes you do if you are in a power conference like the Big East. If you go 18-14 with a great SOS you are in.

 

[August_West]

I meant to say they don’t seem too concerned about good home games. There schedule is good but none of the good games are at home. You need one good home game a year. Maybe they will shock us.

I would never complain. I’d rather see less cupcake games. I believe that even if we lose to a good team early it helps in the long run.

Losing to a top 20 team at home to entertain fans doesn’t help this team.

if we were preseason top 10, I’d say bring it on. We are not. We don’t need our confidence shattered or a bad ooc home loss. If you lose it’s devastating to the tourney number crunchers. If you win it’s not that helpful because you’re home.

the risk vs reward is out of whack.

right now we need a tournament team. I don’t mind being smart at scheduling towards that.

 

[August_West]

Yes you do if you are in a power conference like the Big East. If you go 18-14 with a great SOS you are in.

Lol. You want to test that?

 

[navery12]

I meant to say they don’t seem too concerned about good home games. There schedule is good but none of the good games are at home. You need one good home game a year. Maybe they will shock us.

I would never complain. I’d rather see less cupcake games. I believe that even if we lose to a good team early it helps in the long run.

I guess I'm just not seeing the huge slate of cupcake games like others are saying. We have 3 very strong games in the Battle 4 Atlantis even in a worst case scenario, plus a road game against West Virginia, and possibly neutral court against St Bonaventure. That's plenty of early season tests to have a gauge of where the team is at going into conference play, especially in a team with so much lineup uncertainty

 

[rollskies]

 

[shizzle787]

If we can get just one P5 home game, I can live with the schedule.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

Borges claiming OOC schedule could be as soon as today. He also tweeted it would come out within "a couple weeks" more than a month ago so take with a grain of salt.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Love this matchup!

Between Auburn, West Virginia, St. Bonaventure, Michigan St/Loyola-Chi, and Baylor/AZST/Cuse/VCU that’s a much better OOC than people here give credit.

 

[Kathy]

Love this matchup!

Between Auburn, West Virginia, St. Bonaventure, Michigan St/Loyola-Chi, and Baylor/AZST/Cuse/VCU that’s a much better OOC than people here give credit.

Just would be nice to have one of those at home. Out of state now but when I had season tickets that 1 big OOC game at home was sweet, especially when it was at Gampel.

 

[Storrs South]

 

[gampelcrazies]

At least these are Saturday games.

 

[shizzle787]

Id like to see us schedule a Pac-12 team home and home such as UCLA, Arizona, or Oregon.
Just one P5 home game a year is all I ask.

 

[ThabeetDown]

As of now it looks like only 5 non-conference home games (CCSU, Coppin, LIU, Binghamton, Grambling). Pretty underwhelming for the season ticket holders when they had 8 in 2019/20 and 9 in 2018/19, especially after missing out last year due to COVID. Now I know Big East adds an extra home game (20 games vs 18 in AAC) but you still have to be disappointed.

Granted, @WVU does take up a home game and I'm very ok with the squad getting a true road game out of the way as a test before BE play. If the BE starts around ~12/20 like last year, you essentially lose 1-2 home games between end of exams and when AAC would start (which was always around New Years Day). For example, 2019/20 had home games Dec 18, 22 and 29th before AAC play started. The 22 and 29th games are now BE games, but it doesn't appear they have a post-exams warm up before BE play, which would be nice.