2013-2014 Schedule

[MayorCK]

Something new to talk about, rather than our usual conversations as of late:

I was told by a very good source tonight that a date with Minnesota is looking very good for next season's schedule. I love the idea. Short road trip, and The Barn is a cool arena. I was also told that it's not looking like Marquette is going to happen. I suppose we have Green Bay to thank for that. Purdue is another possibility. I suggested Michigan to my source, and they said if we could get a check for $100,000, it would be a great place to play. I know for sure that we Klotsche Krazies would love to get back to Ann Arbor after the fun we had last weekend. Expect another away game in the NYC area (Manhattan, Hofstra, St. John's, etc.) to give JO a game close to home his senior year.

Non-conference opponents locked in as of now:

at Davidson
at Tennessee Tech
vs. Northern Iowa

Expected opponents:

at Minnesota
at Wisconsin
a MAC team or two (Buffalo was specifically mentioned, perhaps NIU series is extended? I would prefer Central or Eastern Michigan.)
a NYC opponent

My wish list:

Michigan
Purdue (they are looking for teams that they'll give money to come there, and we've beat them)
No DePaul (They lose no-one from this year's team.)
No D-II teams, I'd rather play Chicago State for a "win" game.
A thanksgiving break tourney vs. Top 150 teams.



What would you like to see?

[MU/Panther]

BracketBuster return team will be at Milwaukee.

Why is the Marquette series not going to happen?

[MayorCK]

BracketBuster return team will be at Milwaukee.

Why is the Marquette series not going to happen?

When I asked my source about Marquette being on the schedule, they responded, "It's not looking like it." I didn't ask them to elaborate.

[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

When I asked my source about Marquette being on the schedule, they responded, "It's not looking like it." I didn't ask them to elaborate.

Take this with a grain of salt, but it comes down to numbers. With the Big East ceasing to exist possibly as soon as next year, our non-con schedule becomes that much more important. We will keep the non-con tourney (4 games) and I fully expect annual home-and-homes with Wisconsin and Notre Dame. I'm pretty confident the league will try to get a regular challenge game (ala the Big East/SEC or B1G/ACC Challenges) and Marquette seems to be taking a shine to having a big neutral site game (Jimmy V/Carrier Classic types) so that accounts for 2 more games and 8 in total.

That leaves Marquette with 5 games to play with. Of those 5 I expect we'll try to get at least one more home-and-home series with a high-major to ensure we have at least 2 high-major road games every year, one from the UW/ND alternating series and one from the Challenge/HM H&H series. The problem is we need some "guaranteed wins" on the schedule. That means buy games. If Milwaukee or Green Bay were willing to come to the BC as buy games, I'm sure we'd be interested. But I don't think either program would sacrifice their pride and not demand a home game at least every once every 4 years, and I don't think we're willing to take that risk considering UW and MU both lost at GB in recent years and we had the close call at the Cell. Those last 4 games have to be penciled in as wins and we only get that at the BC.

Also...from what I've heard, it would be tough to do one without the other. If we have a series with Milwaukee, we have to have a series with Green Bay. I think it's easier to just say no to both series than commit 2 of our remaining 4 games to the in-state programs.

[lutzow10]

why would you have to have a series with Green Bay? MU and UWM are the ones in the same city. No offense to Green Bay but **** them. haha. They can deal. I think that having a cross town series once a year is a good gimmick to get casual UWM and MU fans to a game. I honestly think that the game being at the Bradley Center every year isn't the worst thing in the world either. I mean for one its not like it is somewhere else in the state or country, its literally the same distance either way. Also, It would get UWM more exposure. Yes, with the way that we are playing at the moment, the next few years might be blow outs, but once we get our stuff together, if the games are somewhat competitive it would be a great way to get the city of Milwaukee more interested in basketball in the city of Milwaukee. Get fans that never go to UWM games interested. It only benefits the entire city of Milwaukee to have a good Milwaukee College basketball fan base.

[MayorCK]

Marquette won't tell Green Bay "**** you" for no other reason than that Brian Wardle is a Marquette Hall of Famer. I also know that Coach Jeter would never take a annual buy game at the BC. He'd be more likely to continue the DePaul series under that scenario. At least we can turn that into a home game by getting 15-20 fans to the game.

The series vs. Marquette would have had the most intrigue during the Pearl era, and the classless Tom Crean was scared to lose, so it didn't happen until all of Pearl's players were gone. I don't care if they are across the street. We shouldn't buy a wooden nickel from them any more than we should buy one from Madison. I used to think the way Lutzow did about the game, but after being at 3 of the 4 games in the previous deal, I don't think that kind of interest is there. None of the games sold out. The BC maybe gets half full, and the game at the Cell drew just over 7,000. We've had more for reg. season games against GB and Butler.

Bottom line is, if Buzz were to go with the deal that was being talked about prior to this season of the rolling 2 for 1, you have to take that. It appears Green Bay's win has killed that idea. If so, so be it.

There are plenty of teams we can play without hamstringing ourselves.

[MU/Panther]

Well, that is good news for my wife and I. It always puts me in a weird spot.

I know moving forward for Marquette, the new league will be great. The loss of ND, Syracuse & L'ville hurts, so MU needs to make that up by H/H series with other Power 5 leagues.

[BrewCityItalian]

Locks

at Davidson
at Tennessee Tech
vs. Northern Iowa

Expected opponents:

at Minnesota ( ye please )
at Wisconsin ( yes)
a MAC team or two (Central and Eastern please)
a NYC opponent ( alright im cool with that )

My wish list possibilities and yes all on the road :

Michigan ( yes please , pretty please, # 1 on my list, can schedule them and eastern michigan , their only 8 miles apart )
Eastern Michigan
Iowa State
Cincy
Louisville
Dayton
Purdue (they are looking for teams that they'll give money to come there, and we've beat them)
Northwestern
Oakland
Iowa ( can play them and get paid )
Indiana
Creighton
Michigan State
Illinois
Butler ( at hinkle )
DePaul (Yes please, 75,000 dollars plus i heard they pay)
No D-II teams,
A thanksgiving break tourney vs. Top 150 teams.
Bradley

I would rather the program play a bunch of tough road games, and get paid and play quality teams, which will help SOS and hopefully recruiting. Help the program get paid, I would rather play teams that are good, than soft ass home games against Mary and Ohio Dominican

seriously , playing puffs at home does nothing for this program , you can have a couple non conference home games against N illinois and Chicago state,, and the rest can be road games, get paid, and put the money in the new arena trust fund....take all these games on the road now,, future games at home,, that way maybe by than were back at the Cell and can play the big games their, or at a new arena...

playing puffs does nothing for us...build this program up by playing tough opponents, just as boise state has done in football, and gonzaga has in basketball...

[BrewCityItalian]

all that really matters is winning the conference, who cares about outside the conference, the horizon is only getting 1 autobid and thats it. so lets get paid..

[Jimmy Lemke]

We're not Presbyterian for ****'s sake. Mid-majors will still come into Milwaukee to play. And you need to have SOME good games to sell to fans or else the already abysmal season-ticket numbers will get worse.

As far as the schedule beyond, I've heard that UNI is happy to extend the series. If we're playing MAC teams, I'd like to see Akron, Kent State or Ohio. BGSU, Miami and EMU would be second-tier for me on possible MAC games.