A few basketball dates
July 08, 2008
Caught a glimpse of the men’s hoops schedule and here are a few tentative dates.
The season opens Sat. Nov. 15 (bye football week) vs. UAB at home. Nov. 17 is at UNC-Wilmington. UNC-Wilmington comes to Troy Dec. 22. Troy’s making a couple of trips to Louisiana, playing at Centenary Nov. 20 and Alcorn State Nov. 22 (says both of those games are in Baton Rouge.
UNC-Wilmington is a replacement for VMI (Va. Military), but VMI backed out for some reason. The way Troy and VMI play, the final score might be 140-139.
Troy plays host to Georgia State Nov. 25 - GSU has a bunch of high-level transfers on their squad now so that should be a good game. Nov. 29 and Nov. 30 are vs. Northwestern State and LSU supposedly at LSU’s home floor.
Dec. 2 is at Dayton. Sun Belt opener is Dec. 11 at Middle Tennessee and home opener Dec. 18 vs. Florida Atlantic. Rematch with UAB is in Birmingham Dec. 20 and Troy is at Jacksonville (Fla.) Dec. 29.
Only obscure team I saw was William Carey at home Jan. 5.
Supposedly, the SBC schedule is out of whack this year. There aren’t any road-road or home-home weekends except when teams are playing Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. Apparently, those are the only ‘travel partners’ and obviously those two will be predicted to compete for the league title. Plenty of teams will go play at FAU on a Thursday, come home for a Saturday game, and go play at FIU the next Thursday. There’s no real rhyme or reason for Sun Belt scheduling.
