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2026 Schedule Tidbits

nyclax said:
sooo who the heck is duke playing outside the acc if not army, georgetown, princeton, penn, or any big ten team that we know of??? last chance to save their OOC schedule would be cornell or penn state...otherwise its going to be richmond and then a bunch of crap
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Believe they are playing Denver again and as you noted I think Cornell may end up on it as well. I have to think Penn State is on there as well but they are already playing UNC so maybe not. I know Duke is looking at playing a decent amount of youngsters again but your right this would be a bizarre OOC for them if there isn't some other team were missing and Cornell and PSU aren't essentially both on there.
 
nyclax said:
uva at least plays maryland and hop. duke's is shaping up to be worse than that unless psu and/or cornell is involved...maybe i missed a team but i dont think so
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They could still play UMD, Penn, Harvard, Denver, etc
 
an ooc schedule where the best teams are richmond, denver, and harvard isnt going to cut it. denver isnt even good...they need to play at least either penn state or cornell, ideally both...
 
Powellfan said:
Looks like they added Stony Brook, Dartmouth and Drexel. They dropped Ohio State, Albany, Lafayette. Feels like dropping OSU is a pretty big hit, not made up for the fact by picking up say, Dartmouth. Pretty weak sauce.

I saw someone say that a team's schedule tells you a lot about how the coach views their team. Would say Tiffany is not super confident in his teams abilities if this is what they are rolling with.
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Thought I commented on this when you posted it but I tend to agree with you here. I am a bit suprsrired they dropped Albany, they are supposed to have their best squad since probably Nanticokes frosh year. They need Towson and a few of those mid level teams to have decent year or it could get dicey as nyclax noted. I don't get the Drexel game, they really could have used another Power type team even say Rutgers. Dartmouth should be improved but that's a lose/lose game if your UVA. A win means almost nothing and a loss is a disaster.
 
JeremyCuse said:
Thought I commented on this when you posted it but I tend to agree with you here. I am a bit suprsrired they dropped Albany, they are supposed to have their best squad since probably Nanticokes frosh year. They need Towson and a few of those mid level teams to have decent year or it could get dicey as nyclax noted. I don't get the Drexel game, they really could have used another Power type team even say Rutgers. Dartmouth should be improved but that's a lose/lose game if your UVA. A win means almost nothing and a loss is a disaster.
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their schedule is almost an exact replica of 'cuse's last year. and they were supposed to be a top 2 team vying for the championship.
i didn't think 'cuse's schedule was bad at all. and they even lost some games, still getting a good seed by winning the acc tournament.
it's the best matching schedule from them in years. imo.
 
DoctahLexus said:
Army continuing to schedule a total cupcake in Mercer when they already have multiple cupcakes built into the schedule due to their conference just boggles the mind. Then the only OOC add is a Michigan team that has been struggling? Yale Rutgers and Umass are not gonna move the needle in a serious way out of conference, and in fact they all might struggle next season. UNC is the only team that will seriously move the needle with an out of conference win.

The least they can do is drop Mercer. Maybe you can't land games with more challenging opponents for one reason or another but, you should always be able to drop a matchup. If you want to keep the traditions with mediocre teams in Umass and Rutgers you have to drop a game like Mercer and do whatever you can to add another challenging opponent. They will be looking at another year where they need perfection in the Patriot League to make the tourney.
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mercer has to have pictures of somebody @ west point. it makes no sense.
 
wgdsr said:
their schedule is almost an exact replica of 'cuse's last year. and they were supposed to be a top 2 team vying for the championship.
i didn't think 'cuse's schedule was bad at all. and they even lost some games, still getting a good seed by winning the acc tournament.
it's the best matching schedule from them in years. imo.
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It's similar for sure and I don't have anything against it as SU in 27 should look at something similar. That said SU also played Cornell last year who came in with huge preseason hype. Thats the huge difference between SU this past year and UVAs 26 schedule.
 
JeremyCuse said:
It's similar for sure and I don't have anything against it as SU in 27 should look at something similar. That said SU also played Cornell last year who came in with huge preseason hype. Thats the huge difference between SU this past year and UVAs 26 schedule.
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they were ~top 5 (and had missed the playoffs), umd was ~top 5.

now umd is #1 and richmond mid-top 10. and uva has syracuse, whereas syracuse had uva last year.

preseason, there is little to no difference. if anything, the last couple squads project to fare better than 'cuse's last couple in 2025. that part is jmo, but they're not going to knowingly get tanked by a team or 2, which often is the difference (see: mercer for army).
 
ACC teams can get away with a little more fluff in the OOC since the conference almost always has at least 3 top 10 matchups built into it, more if you get to the ACC tourney. Thats how Duke still got a home game last year despite only one good OOC win in Richmond, a fairly bad loss to a .500 Denver team, and 5 regular season losses (6 total with the loss to us in the ACC tourney). The win against us regular season and UNC in the ACC tourney were a major boost.

I do not mind the route we seem to be taking next year, but it is not gauntlet or bust OOC if you are an ACC team. One of the major advantages of being in the conference. You can approach it in multiple ways when some near guaranteed top matchups are built in. If Duke beats Richmond and Harvard (who they are supposedly playing?) plus a couple ACC wins and they will be tourney bound.
 
Zack80 said:
According to Arealax, the locations are correct.
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If that's accurate I'd love to hear the rationale, I mean do they want to play in front of 13 people? Rutgers playing Maryland in Ann Arbor is beyond illogical.
 
JeremyCuse said:
If that's accurate I'd love to hear the rationale, I mean do they want to play in front of 13 people? Rutgers playing Maryland in Ann Arbor is beyond illogical.
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I should have been clearer. The locations are correct, but the opponents are not. That is,
Rutgers plays UMd on April 4 in College Park
 
JeremyCuse said:
That certainly makes a lot more sense.
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In the end, it appears that according to the Michigan schedule:
April 4 Rutgers vs Michigan in Ann Arbor.
So it is probably the locations that are wrong.
and we should have
April 11 Rutgers vs Maryland in College Park
 

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