UMass - seems like a big game

[TheColonyEagle]

Not sure what everyone was expecting in OOC. The loss to UNCW was tough because we were in that game. As for St Mary’s, everything surrounding the team, flu, missing players, no practice. That pretty much went as could be expected. 
 

But if we can beat UMass, we’ll have some solid OOC wins; a win over a name bball school and head into what looks like a better CUSA at 9-2 with a big matchup at FAU coming up. 
 

experts see it as a 50/50 game 

 

 

[gordo nation]

Should be a huge opportunity for the team. NET rankings are heavily impacted here

[NT80]

The game at UMass will be not be at their Amherst campus arena.  Instead it will in Springfield at the MassMutual Center (cap. 8,000).  

[outoftown]

5 hours ago, NT80 said:

The game at UMass will be not be at their Amherst campus arena.  Instead it will in Springfield at the MassMutual Center (cap. 8,000).  

Same story as with GCU again? Thats annoying. They need to stop scheduling those pseudo-neutral games immediately.

If they canßt get good teams to Denton, then NT needs its away games to at least count as away games for its NET. GCU is a Q3 instead of a Q2 because it is counted as neutral, while it had all the disadvantages of being an away game. UMass on neutral ground is likely to end up as a Q3 game, and Q2 is the max if UMass goes on a roll afterward. As an away game it'd be certain at least Q2 and Q1 if UMass goes on a roll. That could really help UNT. The way it is UNT can pretty much only lose and has little to gain.

Edited December 12, 2022 by outoftown

[MrAlien]

Ultimately wins mean more then the NET

[Shark 64]

1 hour ago, MrAlien said:

Ultimately wins mean more then the NET

Agreed. Winning the conference tournament in Frisco is the only way we get an NCAA bid. We are in a one bid league, until next year so don't sweat about KenPom and NET. Just secure a first round bye, get stay healthy and be playing well in March. 

[Big Z]

And we should all watch it and get rowdy in the parking lot before the bowl game

[UNTethered Eagle]

26 minutes ago, Big Z said:

And we should all watch it and get rowdy in the parking lot before the bowl game

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

5 hours ago, Big Z said:

And we should all watch it and get rowdy in the parking lot before the bowl game

A shot each time we miss a free throw will make things spicy

[Big Z]

1 minute ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

A shot each time we miss a free throw will make things spicy

Then we would of drowned at the UTA game 

[NT80]

15 hours ago, outoftown said:

Same story as with GCU again? Thats annoying. They need to stop scheduling those pseudo-neutral games immediately.

If they canßt get good teams to Denton, then NT needs its away games to at least count as away games for its NET. GCU is a Q3 instead of a Q2 because it is counted as neutral, while it had all the disadvantages of being an away game. UMass on neutral ground is likely to end up as a Q3 game, and Q2 is the max if UMass goes on a roll afterward. As an away game it'd be certain at least Q2 and Q1 if UMass goes on a roll. That could really help UNT. The way it is UNT can pretty much only lose and has little to gain.

This is the Hall of Fame Classic..  It's similar to last year when we played UMass in The Classic at Dickies Arena in Ft. Worth.  BTW, UTA played Texas State at Dickies last Saturday and Houston played St. Mary's there about a week ago.

[South Texas Green]

9 hours ago, Big Z said:

And we should all watch it and get rowdy in the parking lot before the bowl game

[outoftown]

18 hours ago, NT80 said:

This is the Hall of Fame Classic..  It's similar to last year when we played UMass in The Classic at Dickies Arena in Ft. Worth.  BTW, UTA played Texas State at Dickies last Saturday and Houston played St. Mary's there about a week ago.

ok. That is at least an explanation I can kind of understand, and I guess as far as UMass is concerned it is just a return game that is similarly pseudoneutral.

Still, I think it is better NET wise to go for real home games and real away games in the long run. Whether that is better for finances and fan interest is harder to judge for me.

Edited December 13, 2022 by outoftown

[Matt from A700]

On 12/11/2022 at 11:04 AM, TheColonyEagle said:

Not sure what everyone was expecting in OOC. The loss to UNCW was tough because we were in that game. As for St Mary’s, everything surrounding the team, flu, missing players, no practice. That pretty much went as could be expected. 
 

But if we can beat UMass, we’ll have some solid OOC wins; a win over a name bball school and head into what looks like a better CUSA at 9-2 with a big matchup at FAU coming up. 
 

experts see it as a 50/50 game 

 

 

So you're saying this game carries great Mass?

[Matt from A700]

30 minutes ago, outoftown said:

ok. That is at least an explanation I can kind of understand, and I guess as far as UMass is concerned it is just a return game that is similarly pseudoneutral.

Still, I think it is better NET wise to go for real home games and real away games in the long run. Whether that is better for finances and fan interest is harder to judge for me.

Well in our case, it did not generate any interest last year. Pictures from that game were pretty sad. I'm still mad at my wife for scheduling our Christmas pictures at the same day and time lol.