Louisville plays exactly zero of those types of games other than UK (and the ACC/Big Ten challenge). They played at Grand Canyon last year, but that was a 2 for 1 deal.
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Thread: 2017-18 OOC schedule
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04-20-2017, 10:58 AM #21
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04-20-2017, 11:07 AM #22
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04-20-2017, 11:41 AM #23
I don't know, for some reason being outside of Cincinnati (it could just be the people I'm surrounded with, so take it with a grain of salt) it seems like many people don't either A. Know much about Xavier or B. Oh you went to Xavier, they're like decently good at basketball right? I still don't think we have brand recognition in the "casual watchers" circle, in the people that follow basketball yes, I think we 100% have a good reputation, I'm just not 100% convinced we're a household name yet, which I think is improving year by year.
On that list, I'd love to see us play home and home's with any of those teams, West Virginia would be pretty fun, but do you think Huggins would want to step foot in Cintas right now? My mind says no. They schedule a lot softer than us as well. It'd be fun though to see what we could do against the press in a game setting though, that's for sure.
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04-20-2017, 11:48 AM #24
I would love another home/home with Florida. Mike White is a really good young coach and they should be on the up and up in the coming years. Wouldn't mind having one with Notre Dame either, think that would be a good fit. Is the UVA/Nova series over? I would agree with that one as well.
Besides Baylor and Utah, when's the last H&H X has done out west? I wouldn't mind Oklahoma St or Iowa St out of the Big 12 either. We're not getting Kansas unless we agree to a 2&1 IMO. TCU actually wouldn't be bad either with Dixon running things now.
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04-20-2017, 11:50 AM #25
I think we're still thought of as a perennial Cinderella by a lot of people, which is somewhat bolstered by the fact that none of the Chris Mack Sweet Sixteen teams were seeded to get that far (6, 7, 6, and 11 seeds). The one team we've had that could have changed that narrative crapped out in the second round.
And that is certainly not a complaint. Just an explanation of why the "casual" fan thinks of Xavier that way.
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04-20-2017, 11:54 AM #26
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04-20-2017, 11:57 AM #27
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04-20-2017, 12:01 PM #28
We were actually a 10 and not a 7, now that I think about it. Forgot that ND was wearing white and not us.
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04-20-2017, 12:43 PM #29
There is a 0.0% chance we get a home and home with Kansas. These are the kind of games they love to play at the Sprint Center. If we actually had a decent neutral arena in Cincinnati, we could probably get a neutral/neutral game.
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04-20-2017, 01:08 PM #30
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