2011-12 Schedule

[Khan4Cats]

Re: 2011-12 Schedule

I am updating what we know and what I am guessing:

Nov. 11/12 @ Old Dominion---I haven't seen anything to confirm or deny this
Nov. 16/17 Probable Home vs. ??? ( l wonder if it's North Dakota, as they play at Bradley Nov. 19 and UNI has a relationship with the UND program...would make for a nice road trip)---haven't seen anything to confirm this open date
Nov. 20 and 22: Home to two South Padre games (W. Carolina and one other)---W.Carolina and N.Colorado are booked for those dates in the McLeod Center
Nov. 25 and 26: At South Padre Event against Rice/Providence---Rice on 25th, Providence on 26th
Nov. 30th (my guess as it's usually this date) at Iowa State---it is ISU on Nov. 30th
Dec. 3rd home to Colorado State---confirmed
Dec. 6th home to Iowa---confirmed
Dec. 10th weekend game TBD---this is UW Milwaukee...supposedly
Dec. 17th TBD (usually no home games during finals week, but there is on weekend)---nothing affirmative
Dec. 20-22nd TBD (possibly 2 games I think if UNI plays a full 31 game schedule)---nothing reported

So, all the games have been accounted for except for the BCS "buy" game and the probable 2 remaining home games. With the team back from Brazil, I look for things to start leaking out in a couple weeks.

Just curious as to when you see the BcS buy game being.

It looks like we have an opening early in the year between the ODU return and the South Padre home games that you say might be NoDak. I agree that NoDak seems a possibility given some ties and there current schedule, but it would seem more likely that a BcS'er would want us then than in December.

The December dates would be right after finals-not sure the staff would want the kids, by that I mean the young ones, trying to go through finals week AND focus on a possible buy game-especially if it is a name type BcS'er and not a bottom feeder. The other option is in the week before Christmas and I don't see us trying to get a buy road and a scond home date in then.

My guess would be that if we do a BcS buy game it will be in that period after the ODU game, maybe even something out east to pair with that trip. That would leave the games after finals and before Christmas for probably a Wartburg/Coe/Upper Iowa type game, a NoDak/USD/UMKC type 2-1 game and maybe a buy game like Morehead State last year.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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I think the game could be anywhere and anytime that provides the best payout. From what I have been seeing, BCS programs have plenty of options available, but most of them don't work for the dates that UNI has open....and then again, the game could already been had, and they are waiting for the completion of the schedule before releasing it.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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@CAA_FCP: Per @GoodmanCBS, #ODU vs. Iowa (11/12) bit.ly/qy7zP8" He must mean Northern Iowa @ ODU. It's the bracketbuster return game.

http://twitter.com/#!/sevenyearsgone/status/103956114353299456

Looks like the ODU game is more solidified as rumored before. Also, updated the tv info that we know on the first post.

[unifight41]

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2011-2012 Non-con schedule is up!

http://www.unipanthers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26200&ATCLID=205247872

[UNI83]

Re: 2011-12 Schedule

Holy ****....St. Mary's? Nice. Although going Virginia to California for games in a three day span may suck.

[strike00]

Re: 2011-12 Schedule

Loras in the regular season. Ugh

[BCPanther]

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We have to have home games. Tough to get anybody to come here, therefore, you end up with an Iowa Conference school. Plus they come for $10,000 instead of $50,000...

[06panther10]

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Well, on the surface adding the St Marys game kind of sucks. Traveling from Virginia to California and then back to CF in a matter of a few days will be really rough.

BUT, it gets us another nationally televised game, and it gets us another really good non-con opponent. AND, St Marys is returning the game with the trip to CF the following season. Which could end up being great for us to get a potentially really good home non-con game for our '12-'13 team which many of us expect to be a really good team.

This schedule may not look sexy, but it is better than it appears on paper IMO. St Marys and ODU, two of the best mid majors in the country. Northern Colorado and Milwaukee have had some good teams that have played postseason ball in the last few years. And ISU and Iowa could be a lot better teams this year, to go along with Rice and Providence and a good Colorado St team as well.

Overall, pretty good if you ask me.

[orangetennis]

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this is awesome!

difficult start to the season for a young bunch, but awesome exposure!

Great job filling up the schedule with a quality opponent, Jake!

[williebat]

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I think this is a great schedule. Tough start with OD and St. Mary's but i like tough games. Lose but you learn a lot, you win and helps rpi. Win Win.

Tough non con sched should get us ready for tough conference play.

Very impressive

Wonder who will be the other non con game yet to be names. Any guesses. Last years Syracuse surprise was cool.

I wish we could get something going with Minnesota since we recruit a lot up there.

[Khan4Cats]

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I think it may be safe to say that Jake was impressed enough by the new guys to go ahead and challenge them in the non-conference portion. Nice to see the confidence.

Would also be nice to fill that last home date with a decent team, or North Dakota State if that fails.

[06panther10]

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Would also be nice to fill that last home date with a decent team, or North Dakota State if that fails.

See now, that is a good post. It served a purpose, and had a nice sneaky dig at the Bizon.

[BryceC]

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Loras in the regular season. Ugh

Honestly I am in favor of scheduling D2 or D3 schools once a year... they don't effect your RPI, so it's actually better than playing a RPI 250+ school.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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http://www.mvcfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1328&sid=6614baaf4f6d83f1d389f68021865ddd

Tuesday, Jan. 10 Northern Iowa CenturyLink Center Omaha 8:05 pm

http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/silu-m-baskbl-sched.html

SIU at UNI Tues Jan 31 7PM
UNI at SIU Sat Feb 25 TBA (last game of the year)

[BCPanther]

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No respect already.

No way wr are getting on TV that last weekend playing a god awful SIU team. We have been the best program in the league for the last decade and we can't even get a marquee game on the last weekend.