Updating 9599's post once again...
(Exhibitions?) TBA TBA @ UIC Chicago, Illinois TBA vs. Fairleigh Dickenson Gentile Arena TBA vs. Albany Gentile Arena TBA vs. Stanford San Francisco, Calif. Thurs, November 17, 2022 vs. TBA (Boise State, Charlotte, Colorado, Murray State, Texas A&M, or Tulsa)˚ Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Fri, November 18, 2022 vs. TBA (Boise State, Charlotte, Colorado, Murray State, Texas A&M, or Tulsa)˚ Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Sunday, November 20, 2022 vs. TBA (Boise State, Charlotte, Colorado, Murray State, Texas A&M, or Tulsa)˚ Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Wed, November 30, 2022 vs. Central Arkansas Gentile Arena Sat, December 3, 2022 vs. DePaul Gentile Arena Mon, December 5, 2022 vs. UW-Green Bay Gentile Arena Sat, December 10, 2022 vs. Clemson Atlanta, Georgia
@ Duquesne * Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania George Washington * Gentile Arena Saint Joseph’s * Gentile Arena @ Dayton * Dayton, Ohio @ Davidson * Davidson, North Carolina Saint Louis * Gentile Arena Saint Bonaventure* Gentile Arena @ George Mason * Fairfax, Virginia @ La Salle* Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dayton * Gentile Arena @ Massachusetts * Amherst, Massachusetts @ Richmond * Richmond, Virginia Fordham * Gentile Arena @ Saint Joseph’s* Philadelphia, Pennsylvania George Mason * Gentile Arena @ Saint Louis St. Louis, Missouri Rhode Island * Gentile Arena VCU * Gentile Arena Wed. Mar. 8, - Sun. Mar. 12, 2023 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship Brooklyn, New York
By my count, this completes the schedule... 8 non-con + 3 games in an MTE + 18-game conference season = 29 games before conference tournament
Wondering what the loose ends are holding up an announcement..... specific dates? TV? double-header partners for the neutral site games?
I think it's close to the best non-con slate we've had since the early 90s... Some might disagree about the good schedule because of lack of a P5 game on the road-- I say that's a definite sign of progress! This situation is closer to the P5 scheduling process. We've got some very good (probable Q1) neutral games, a top 100 from a big conference at home (DePaul), and some games to pad the W column against other conferences....
Once you add in two games against an almost-lock Top 25 team (Dayton), two games against a lock Top 50 team (St. Louis), a home game against a probable top 75 team (VCU), and several other potential Top 100 games, it might be the best schedule Loyola has ever had.... and I say that as a longtime researcher of Loyola basketball history. No non-D1 games, no suicide missions for a paycheck (paid road game against really good P5s), and we play our two biggest local rivals.
Once you had the high level of our conference schedule-- arguably the most challenging conference schedule since Loyola joined a conference-- it's maybe the best ever. Or at least since the late 70s....
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