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11/1 Assumption (exhibition) Wednesday
11/6 Central Connecticut Monday
11/9 Fairfield Thursday
11/14 Wagner Tuesday
11/22 Johnson & Wales Wednesday
11/26 Yale Sunday
12/6 Brown Wednesday
12/21 New Hampshire Thursday
12/30 Northeastern Saturday
UMass
Fordham
La Salle
George Mason
Duquesne
Loyola Chicago
Richmond
Saint Louis
Saint Joseph's

Away
12/2 Providence Saturday
12/10 Charleston Sunday
Seton Hall
UMass
Fordham
La Salle
George Mason
VCU
St. Bonaventure
Davidson
Dayton
George Washington

Neutral
11/18 Hall of Fame Tip-Off, Mohegan Sun vs Northwestern Saturday
11/19 Hall of Fame Tip-Off, Mohegan Sun vs Mississippi State or Washington State Sunday
12/16 Holiday Hoopfest, UBS Arena vs Delaware

Atlantic 10 tournament at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY

Wednesday 11/1 vs Assumption (exhibition)
Monday 11/6 vs Central Connecticut
Thursday 11/9 vs Fairfield
Tuesday 11/14 vs Wagner
Saturday 11/18 Hall of Fame Tip-Off, Mohegan Sun vs Northwestern
Sunday 11/19 Hall of Fame Tip-Off Mohegan Sun vs Mississippi State or Washington State
Wednesday 11/22 Johnson & Wales
Sunday 11/26 vs Yale
Saturday 12/2 at Providence
Wednesday 12/6 vs Brown
Sunday 12/10 at Charleston
Saturday 12/16 Holiday Hoopfest, UBS Arena vs Delaware
Thursday 12/21 New Hampshire
Saturday 12/30 Northeastern

"The Wisconsin-based Panthers now represent a potential future home game for the Rams in the coming seasons. URI will be scheduled to visit a pair of in-state rivals next season in Providence and Brown. The Rams also have a road meeting with Seton Hall to play at a date to be determined — the Pirates suffered a 76-63 loss at the Ryan Center early in the 2020-21 season"

Bill Koch article from 12/20 ProJo after Milwaukee cancellation. I'm going to pencil in the Milwaukee game for now pending further information. With no scheduled home games yet for the 23-24 season it's probably a safe bet they'll want to play this one

Moving the Milwaukee game to next season is not such a bad thing. This is a lost season and this game would mean nothing. With no home games under contract for next year, it helps in crafting a Ryan Center schedule. Coming off an atrocious 2022-23 season, the third straight losing campaign, will make scheduling next year even more difficult than it typically already is.

We need to get things back to a home and road rotation each season for the Brown and PC series. URI should push for the next Brown series contract start location to meet that objective.

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 year ago

Not a bad group, certainly diverse.

Northwestern is having a good year, so far, despite getting portaled and losing a couple of key players from last season. I haven’t heard about or watched MSU or WSU.

Hopefully, the Tip Off provides next years Rams with a stern early season test of the quad 2 variety, at least.

In the past the tournament was eight teams and we would play in the top bracket at Mohegan and get two out of conference games from teams in the bottom bracket, however this season they only did the four team top bracket. It will be interesting to see what format they use next year as that could determine two of our home ooc games

Definitely a good slate. KenPom rankings as of right now:

Mississippi State: 45
Northwestern: 58
Washington State: 62

Should be a couple of Q1/Q2 games. Hopefully that stuff matters next year.

Would seem to have a tremendous home court advantage with none of these schools being particularly close to the area and their fans aren't known to have a crazy traveling fan base.

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago Would seem to have a tremendous home court advantage with none of these schools being particularly close to the area and their fans aren't known to have a crazy traveling fan base.

I think that might be the reason URI keeps getting invited back. They can reasonably expect decent ticket sales and concession sales.

RhodyKyle wrote: ↑1 year ago

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago Would seem to have a tremendous home court advantage with none of these schools being particularly close to the area and their fans aren't known to have a crazy traveling fan base.

I think that might be the reason URI keeps getting invited back. They can reasonably expect decent ticket sales and concession sales.

This season PC also had that geographic advantage at the Mohegan Sun and lost both games.

Love when we get these Mohegan tournaments! Already contemplating a trip back to catch this one.

Jersey77 wrote: ↑1 year ago

RhodyKyle wrote: ↑1 year ago

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago Would seem to have a tremendous home court advantage with none of these schools being particularly close to the area and their fans aren't known to have a crazy traveling fan base.

I think that might be the reason URI keeps getting invited back. They can reasonably expect decent ticket sales and concession sales.

This season PC also had that geographic advantage at the Mohegan Sun and lost both games.

Yea but where would you rather have the games played against these three teams, in some high school gym in the Caribbean, or 30 minutes away from campus?

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago

Jersey77 wrote: ↑1 year ago

RhodyKyle wrote: ↑1 year ago

I think that might be the reason URI keeps getting invited back. They can reasonably expect decent ticket sales and concession sales.

This season PC also had that geographic advantage at the Mohegan Sun and lost both games.

Yea but where would you rather have the games played against these three teams, in some high school gym in the Caribbean, or 30 minutes away from campus?

I am very good with it and will plan on driving up for the games.
This season they were played the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Last time I was there we beat West Virginia.

RhodyKyle wrote: ↑1 year ago

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago Would seem to have a tremendous home court advantage with none of these schools being particularly close to the area and their fans aren't known to have a crazy traveling fan base.

I think that might be the reason URI keeps getting invited back. They can reasonably expect decent ticket sales and concession sales.

Yea I could be completely wrong on this, but I think Rhody and PC get invited back every 4 years.

We were scheduled to play during 2020 but of course that was cancelled because of covid.

Yes, we played in this in 2012, 2016, and now 2023, Providence was in it in 2014, 2018, then here in 2022

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago

Jersey77 wrote: ↑1 year ago

RhodyKyle wrote: ↑1 year ago

I think that might be the reason URI keeps getting invited back. They can reasonably expect decent ticket sales and concession sales.

This season PC also had that geographic advantage at the Mohegan Sun and lost both games.

Yea but where would you rather have the games played against these three teams, in some high school gym in the Caribbean, or 30 minutes away from campus?

From a basketball or vacation perspective? Because let me tell you I was very OK with the high school gym in paradise setup.

That said - the Mohegan tourney FUCKS. I love it. I can't wait.

Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑1 year ago

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 year ago

Not a bad group, certainly diverse.

Very happy with this URI and 3 P5 schools

Blue Man wrote: ↑1 year ago

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago

Jersey77 wrote: ↑1 year ago

This season PC also had that geographic advantage at the Mohegan Sun and lost both games.

Yea but where would you rather have the games played against these three teams, in some high school gym in the Caribbean, or 30 minutes away from campus?

From a basketball or vacation perspective? Because let me tell you I was very OK with the high school gym in paradise setup.

That said - the Mohegan tourney FUCKS. I love it. I can't wait.

100% basketball perspective lol

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago

RhodyKyle wrote: ↑1 year ago

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago Would seem to have a tremendous home court advantage with none of these schools being particularly close to the area and their fans aren't known to have a crazy traveling fan base.

I think that might be the reason URI keeps getting invited back. They can reasonably expect decent ticket sales and concession sales.

Yea I could be completely wrong on this, but I think Rhody and PC get invited back every 4 years.

We were scheduled to play during 2020 but of course that was cancelled because of covid.

We opened the season there in ‘20, in one of the pods…
Played BC among other teams.

Opened against Arizona State there

This is excellent news!!!! Love going to games at Mohegan. Now, let's make sure we are 100% better than this year so we can show up for this!

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑1 year ago Yes, we played in this in 2012, 2016, and now 2023, Providence was in it in 2014, 2018, then here in 2022

Weren't we also schedule to play in it in 2020, but then got moved to another tournament also at Mohegan when another team had to drop out of that tourney? Played ASU and BC I think.

steviep123 wrote: ↑1 year ago

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑1 year ago Yes, we played in this in 2012, 2016, and now 2023, Providence was in it in 2014, 2018, then here in 2022

Weren't we also schedule to play in it in 2020, but then got moved to another tournament also at Mohegan when another team had to drop out of that tourney? Played ASU and BC I think.

Yes. Rhody was originally slated for the HOF tournament that the casino annually hosts. Mohegan then became a bubble site with no fans for several tournaments due to covid concerns. The fields for these were in a constant state of flux up to days before they occurred. URI then changed tournaments playing in a stronger field.

RF1 wrote: ↑1 year ago

steviep123 wrote: ↑1 year ago

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑1 year ago Yes, we played in this in 2012, 2016, and now 2023, Providence was in it in 2014, 2018, then here in 2022

Weren't we also schedule to play in it in 2020, but then got moved to another tournament also at Mohegan when another team had to drop out of that tourney? Played ASU and BC I think.

Yes. Rhody was originally slated for the HOF that it annually hosts.
Mohegan then became a bubble site with no fans for several tournaments due to covid concerns. The fields for these were in a constant state of flux up to days before the occurred. URI then changed tournaments playing in a stronger field.

Thanks - I couldn't remember which tourney at Mohegan they were scheduled for, only that they were moved from one tourney to another in Mohegan.

With our dreadful season over, this thread now has more relevance. Anyone hearing anything about potential opponents? Lot of games need to be found, especially at home where Milwaukee is the only known contest. With the debacle of this season, URI will need a decent OOC home slate to sell tickets. PC is away next year. Will need at least one marquis game to promote ticket packages.

Ideally we can work something out with Brown to host them. Not a game that will drive ticket package sales, but would like to get them back onto the off year from PC

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑1 year ago Ideally we can work something out with Brown to host them. Not a game that will drive ticket package sales, but would like to get them back onto the off year from PC

Agreed. My guess is that URI will work that in when the next series contract is signed. I think they have previously had to do this in the past when Brown visited URI in 2016 as part of the HOF Tournament.

What home opponents do you think URI has a reasonable shot of scheduling which might either help its metrics and or excite ticket holders?

I think another Home and Home w BC makes sense.

I would like to see a H&H series with Temple. There is some 35 years of history in the A-10 together.

Vermont, No?

RF1 wrote: ↑1 year ago What home opponents do you think URI has a reasonable shot of scheduling which might either help its metrics and or excite ticket holders?

Honestly, I'd target anyone with a NET in the 60 to 150 range that isn't completely turning its roster over - major, mid-major, the only good team in a conference of 12 tiny schools, whatever. I don't think "name" power conference schools will have any interest in playing us, since we were bad this year and we'll project to be bad next year too. So, might as well just focus on the next level down. The team was so bad this year, I don't think anything is really going to help attendance next year, short of going 10-0 out of the gate or something like that.

I have several suggestions since we need five or six additional home games . How about Princeton as a draw , following their current sweet sixteen appearance ? Others might include Hofstra , Iona , Penn , Kent State , Wichita State , take a shot at West Virginia since we played at WV and played them at Mohegan . How about Delaware or Drexel who don't have that much to lose playing at URI . Ohio U might be game to come to URI on a home and home. There are lots of mid level teams that might be willing to show up.

Load upon lower, regional D1 opponents, hopefully beat the crap out of them, Mohegan to test the others, get into the conference and finish mid pack, for Archie year 2. No?

section(105) wrote: ↑1 year ago Load upon lower, regional D1 opponents, hopefully beat the crap out of them, Mohegan to test the others, get into the conference and finish mid pack, for Archie year 2. No?

We should have a never ending H&H series with BC.

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 year ago

So we now have two known Ryan Center OOC games as of now - CCSU and Milwaukee.

RF1 wrote: ↑1 year ago

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 year ago

So we now have two known Ryan Center OOC games as of now - CCSU and Milwaukee.

Even Milwaukee is a best guess. We're assuming they'll be here this year as a makeup of last year's Covid cancellation, but it was never specifically guaranteed

Keep lining up those cupcakes…….assuming we will be able to handle them…….

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 year ago

Can u say 1-0 baby !!

It appears that both UMass and St Bonaventure may be part of doubleheader event at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, MA. It had been known that UMass would meet West Virginia there as part of a series (similar to URI and WVU with Mohegan Sun/Morgantown series a few years back). There are now reports that there may be a second game involving St Bonaventure and 2023 NCAA Final-4 participant Florida Atlantic.

The Bonnies have made up for not getting good teams to Olean in recent years by playing many neutral site one off games. They played one game each in Sioux Falls-SD, Belmont Park-NY, and Brooklyn-NY this past season versus S Dakota State, Notre Dame, and Iona. This made up for them not playing in a MTE tournament event. SBU was in a three game MTE the season before in Charleston but still played neutral site games in Newark-NJ and Charlotte-NC versus UConn and Va Tech.

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 year ago

We better beat them this time. I saw Providence is playing them for the first time in a while.

Brown vs PC at the AMP of course.

With PC playing Brown again in the first season after the departure of Cooley, it would seem to confirm that the decision to avoid the Bears for many years was likely all on Ed.

Pretty sure Boo Buie has returned to the northwestern too

Not bad, I'll take it!

Agreed as long as our first game wasn’t Washington St I’ll take it

Dino611 wrote: ↑1 year ago Agreed as long as our first game wasn’t Washington St I’ll take it

I would’ve rather Wash St as they seem to be our best chance at a win.