UK vs UK/UK noncon schedule

[Doberman_CATS!!!]

http://www.810whb.com/article/6456

Date (Day), Opponent, Site (notes)

— Nov. 1 (Tuesday), Fort Hays State, Lawrence (exhibition)

— Nov. 8 (Tuesday), Pittsburg State, Lawrence (exhibition)

— Nov. 11 (Friday), Towson, Lawrence (EA Sports Maui Invitational First Round)

— Nov. 15 (Tuesday), Kentucky, New York (Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden)

— Nov. 21-23 (Monday-Wednesday), EA Sports Maui Invitational, Maui, Hawaii (potential opponents: Arizona, Chaminade, Duke, Georgetown, Memphis, Michigan, Tennessee, UCLA)

— Nov. 30 (Wednesday), Florida Atlantic, Lawrence

— Dec. 3 (Saturday), South Florida, Lawrence

— Dec. 6 (Tuesday), Long Beach State, Lawrence

— Dec. 10 (Saturday), Ohio State, Lawrence

— Dec. 19 (Monday), Davidson, Kansas City, Mo. (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout at Sprint Center)

— Dec. 22 (Thursday), at USC, Los Angeles

— Dec. 29 (Thursday), Howard, Lawrence

— Dec. 31 (Saturday), North Dakota, Lawrence



http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/30165/kansas-schedule-difficult-awesome

We've already established that the new Champions Classic -- which pairs four national powers (Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State) in a two-game showcase at Madison Square Garden in the first week of the college hoops season -- is good for college hoops. Why? Because fans want to see good teams play other good teams as early in the season as possible. Fans want to open the hoops season with a bang. The Champions Classic accomplishes both.

This year, the Champions Classic doubleheader does something else: Adds another top-flight game to the Kansas Jayhawks' impressively difficult -- and extremely exciting -- nonconference schedule.

Kansas released its nonconference slate Sunday, and it will have a place at the top of any list of the most-difficult schedules in college hoops in 2011-12, especially among college hoops' elite. The damage begins with the Champions Classic matchup with Kentucky. A few days later, Kansas will travel to Hawaii to compete against the most loaded Maui Invitational field in recent memory, a field that includes Duke, Georgetown, Memphis, UCLA, Tennessee and Michigan. (And, of course, Chaminade. Don't overlook the Silverswords.)

It doesn't end there: On Dec. 10, the Jayhawks will welcome Ohio State -- which is set to be one of the two or three best teams in the country next season -- to Allen Fieldhouse. Then, as a tidy little reward for all that nonconference difficulty, Bill Self's team gets the privilege of playing in the Big 12, a conference that just waved farewell to two of its traditional doormats (Colorado and Nebraska, which are headed to the Pac-12 and the Big Ten, respectively) and now features a round-robin home-and-home schedule that should only stand to make the tightened conference even more challenging.

All of which is very good news for college hoops fans, who, again, like to see good teams play as other good teams as often as possible. In other words, you'll be seeing a lot of Kansas in November and December. Jayhawks fans might be a little unsure about the schedule -- the last thing any fan wants is to watch his/her reloading team pull a Michigan State and never quite recover in January, February and March -- but for the general hoops fan, the proper reaction is all excitement.

[steve dave]

squawks squawking away from larryville being beakers as usual

[fatty fat fat]

lmao @ davidson being the premier game in kc.

davidson. is that even a school?

[steve dave]

davidson. is that even a school?

yes

[Rage Against the McKee]

Well, it looks like uk is playing AT USC. LMFAO, IBA must have told Larryville to buzz off. I guess we'll at least get to see the real flagship university play at IBA.

[Dugout DickStone]

Well, it looks like uk is playing AT USC. LMFAO, IBA must have told Larryville to buzz off. I guess we'll at least get to see the real flagship university play at IBA.

They were worried about priving tickets.  Anything over $5 is out of ku fan's budget.

[wes mantooth]

the KU squawks (Bukaty, other guys don't know names) on the border patrol this morning were just gushing about how this has to be the toughest non conference schedule anyone has ever played, ever!  Howard's no slouch.

[KITNfury]

It's a good non-con. I've decided to never bet against Bill Self (unless it's March), but next year could be rough on them (to what they are used to), particularly with this schedule.

[jtksu]

Pretty sure the IBA was in fact USC's home game originally.   I'm guessing the amend the schedule once all the stuff is squared away.

[Mels Fish Bowl]

Pretty sure the IBA was in fact USC's home game originally.   I'm guessing the amend the schedule once all the stuff is squared away.

Doubtful.  The USC beat writer and bloggers are writing like @ Wichita is now dead.  Should be at Galen Center as originally planned.

[ChiComCat]

Odd season to start trying a respectable non-con schedule...

[Dugout DickStone]

Odd season to start trying a respectable non-con schedule...

Kentucky lost a TON.

[gatoveintisiete]

This schedule is clearly a jedi mind-trick.

step 1.  play a really tough schedule during a rebuilding year when you were going to be shitty anyway.

step 2. when you think you might be able to contend again, schedule nothing but cupcakes.

step 3. when accused of a weak schedule after losing in the 2nd round as a 1 seed, point to two years prior when your schedule was really tough and then mutter something about how
             these schedules are done years in advance.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Not sure why this is news.  Everyone on phog.net told my sock that the schedule is determined years in advance.

 

2 hard games + whatever they get at Maui =/ hardest ooc of all time

[kyles]

Some LBBIQ in this thread right here. 

[FHSU92]

Wow the fieldhouse will be rockin' this yr, great slat of games in Afh.  Florida is pretty salty.

[sonofdaxjones]

Good chance we're going to see a lot of:    did you see our schedule?  This year.