(03-19-2019 05:50 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Basketball is a different deal than football, but another thing the women's NCAA bid does is make things easier for scheduling next year. When you have schools like TCU not only being among the first left out (in both men's and women's hoops) but seeing publicly on ESPN that their NC scheduling was weak, then that's forcing them to play schools like Rice. And we should be able to dictate the terms (fine, but you're playing us at Tudor). Ultimately, our 12 seed on the women's side is because we had a horrible NC schedule - playing A&M, UCLA & UNC isn't awful, but when you're in a state with the #1 overall seed, three other Big 12 teams, and plenty of other top 100 RPI teams within driving distance; it's unacceptable to keep playing SWAC teams and bottom of the pack Southland Conference teams instead. From what I've been told, Langley tried but kept getting turned down this past year when it comes to scheduling. So she gets a pass from me for 2018-19, but the 2019-20 NC schedule has to be much, much better (hell, I would think a bunch of schools would want to play us so they can prepare for a tall post within their own league). The men also need an upgrade, although they're not ready for the Baylors and other Big 12 teams quite yet (at least not too many all at once).