by dannyobyrne » January 16th, 2012, 11:23 am
Loyola is one of three BracketBuster games CU will be playing next year (two of them on the road). Thanks, Elgin!
It's about as good a schedule as CU could hope for. St. Joe's will be really good, possibly top-25. One would think UAB and Tulsa would be better -- can't fault CU for scheduling those home-and-homes with teams who finished 1-2 in CUSA last year. Cal's a good get. The Vegas tourney is good, but I would assume it will pit the Jays against ASU in the first game. Nothing we can do about that. The MWC game against Boise (is this happening for sure? Isn't Boise not going to be in the MWC next year?) is OK -- but we've already played some heavy-hitters (SDSU, UNM, BYU) and UNLV's also a home team. Not much we can do about that.
Not sure how to put together a better schedule, short of whoring out on a one-and-done or something, which CU has continually said it won't do (and which I, personally, am not 100 percent against, depending on situation). There's been some talk about how next year would be the best chance of securing a made-for-ESPN game aginst a BCS, what with expected preseason hype and Dougie and whatnot. Not sure how realistic that would be.
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