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and I hear from a great source that we'll have a very pleasant surprise this year. Hint: no trip to P'keepsie, N.Y. this year (although I enjoyed going there the last two years), but we'll head somewhere else.

Beside the surprise, and what I've been able to cobble together from others, is that this is the best EMU bball schedule I can remember in many years. More d-I home games. One or no d-II games (I saw a post elsewhere about a d-II game but that conflicts with the pleasant surprise hinted above).

Only thing missing is a visit by a Big Ten team to the Convo.

Come on, Tommy bring your Wolverines down the road to the Convo. Hey, with the price of crude approaching 50 bucks / barrel, isn't it better for EMU and UofM to take bus trips down Washtenaw Ave. instead of having some no name team fly 750 miles to Metro and then have to bus ALL the way from Metro to A2.

What a waste of petro...

Steve,

Tommy is tired of having his a** handed to him by fellow MAC foe Western Michigan. He now refuses to play us in Kalamazoo. We wanted another 2-for-1 deal but he insisted our "home game" be played in Grand Rapids. Coach Hawkins told him to get bent... :chair:

BrewtownBronco Wrote:Steve,

Tommy is tired of having his a** handed to him by fellow MAC foe Western Michigan. He now refuses to play us in Kalamazoo. We wanted another 2-for-1 deal but he insisted our "home game" be played in Grand Rapids. Coach Hawkins told him to get bent... :chair:

Actually, that might not be a bad idea.

Syracuse now refuses to play at St. Bonaventure, which is in a *very* small town in the Allegenies.

So they play every two years in Syracuse. In the other years, the game is now being held alternately in Rochester's War Memorial or Buffalo's HSBC Arena.

I'm sure Bonaventure would like to get the Orange at home. They play in a smallish building that intimidates visitors something like Anderson Arena does in the MAC.

But playing in Buffalo and Rochester has really helped raise Bonaventure's profile in western New York. Last time I checked, a Rochester-area station was carrying Bonaventure basketball games -- which always struck me as a nice achievement for them.