last year's non-conference was significantly tougher than this season's
long beach st - Missouri
purdue - Ole Miss
arizona - UNC
pitt - St. Louis
tennessee - Colorado St.
a&m - @ a&m
texas southern - Columbia
georgia - @ Georgia
the only real disagreement we have is texas southern - columbia and the pitt - st louis games.
texas southern was legit last year making it to the 2nd round of the tourney. columbia was and is booty.
pitt went 8-10 in the acc last season w/ quality wins over teams that stl would never win - UNC, SU, ND. again, i'll always defer to a big east/ACC team in pitt over st louis. pitt had quality youth. st louis has/had mo valley.
and LBS would run mu out of the gym, so i guess i don't agree with that one either.
i don't know, seems to me like a much tougher schedule last year.