Basketball season gets started on November 14th, so as with football I thought I’d start this thread listing the games (and results when play gets underway) of UT opponents; it can also be used for other news about teams on Toledo’s schedule. I’ll post updates when I can, but of course this isn’t “my” thread. Anyone who wants to post schedules, game results or news that might be interesting but that doesn't warrant a separate thread should go ahead. I don’t think I do as well with this as I do with football: too many hoops games to keep track of, and I miss even more basketball games than I do football games. But I still think this is a worthwhile thread.

These are just the games (that I could find) for the opening weekend. Additions and corrections are always welcome.

I’ll be away from the board for a few days starting this weekend, so I won’t be posting my usual updates. I know they will be missed.


Friday, November 14th

Eastern Michigan hosts St. Francis of Illinois

Central Michigan hosts Alma

Buffalo hosts South Dakota State

Akron hosts Maryland-Baltimore County

Ball State at Utah

Northern Arizona at Xavier

Duke hosts Presbyterian

Oakland at Iowa State

Cleveland State at Iona

Bucknell hosts Marist

Robert Morris hosts Lafayette

VCU hosts Tennessee

Detroit hosts Rochester

Northern Kentucky at Wisconsin

McNeese State at Baylor

Chicago State at Arizona State

Saturday, November 15th

Ohio hosts Appalachian State

Bowling Green at Drake

Northern Illinois hosts Aurora, not North Dakota State as I originally said

Kent State at Youngstown State

Duke hosts Fairfield

Oregon hosts Coppin State

Games on Sunday, November 16th in addition to Northern Arizona at Toledo

Buffalo at Kentucky

Miami hosts Southern Utah

Western Michigan hosts Aquinas

Robert Morris at North Carolina

Northern Kentucky at Nebraska

Chicago State at Creighton

Duke's Jahlil Okafor hasn't played a regular season game in college yet, but he's an AP Preseason All-American.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/22544...-team-2014

(11-10-2014 05:10 PM)cnyrocketfan Wrote:  Duke's Jahlil Okafor hasn't played a regular season game in college yet, but he's an AP Preseason All-American.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/22544...-team-2014

Interesting---the Rockets played Wiggins and Kansas last year and will play Duke and Okafor this year.

Good point.

(11-10-2014 05:44 PM)T-Town Wrote:  

(11-10-2014 05:10 PM)cnyrocketfan Wrote:  Duke's Jahlil Okafor hasn't played a regular season game in college yet, but he's an AP Preseason All-American.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/22544...-team-2014

Interesting---the Rockets played Wiggins and Kansas last year and will play Duke and Okafor this year.

Duke's Coach K already said he's one and done.

NIU is not playing North Dakota St. this season. They host Aurora University on NOV.15th.

Just looking ahead, because I have Rocket fever, looks like Oregon lost 4 starters and 2 primary backups from last year's round of 32 team via graduations and 3 of them sexually assualting someone

yeah oregon still has some talent but is down and may be vulnerable. vcu could be the best team we play. duke has tons of talent but need to build a new team and we have applewhite to help us physically in that game.

n arizona our opener is a little scary. they got most everyone back from a team that was toward the top of their league. cleve st will be good. bucknell and detroit might be. robert morris is usually very solid but might be down a little.

(11-10-2014 07:17 PM)dekalb222 Wrote:  NIU is not playing North Dakota St. this season. They host Aurora University on NOV.15th.

Thanks. I'll fix that in the original message.

(11-10-2014 04:32 PM)cnyrocketfan Wrote:  Basketball season gets started on November 14th, so as with football I thought I’d start this thread listing the games (and results when play gets underway) of UT opponents; it can also be used for other news about teams on Toledo’s schedule. I’ll post updates when I can, but of course this isn’t “my” thread. Anyone who wants to post schedules, game results or news that might be interesting but that doesn't warrant a separate thread should go ahead. I don’t think I do as well with this as I do with football: too many hoops games to keep track of, and I miss even more basketball games than I do football games. But I still think this is a worthwhile thread.

These are just the games (that I could find) for the opening weekend. Additions and corrections are always welcome.

I’ll be away from the board for a few days starting this weekend, so I won’t be posting my usual updates. I know they will be missed.


Friday, November 14th

Eastern Michigan hosts St. Francis of Illinois

Central Michigan hosts Alma

Buffalo hosts South Dakota State

Akron hosts Maryland-Baltimore County

Ball State at Utah

Northern Arizona at Xavier

Duke hosts Presbyterian

Oakland at Iowa State

Cleveland State at Iona

Bucknell hosts Marist

Robert Morris hosts Lafayette

VCU hosts Tennessee

Detroit hosts Rochester

Northern Kentucky at Wisconsin

McNeese State at Baylor

Chicago State at Arizona State

Saturday, November 15th

Ohio hosts Appalachian State

Bowling Green at Drake

Northern Illinois hosts Aurora, not North Dakota State as I originally said

Kent State at Youngstown State

Duke hosts Fairfield

Oregon hosts Coppin State

Games on Sunday, November 16th in addition to Northern Arizona at Toledo

Buffalo at Kentucky

Miami hosts Southern Utah

Western Michigan hosts Aquinas

Robert Morris at North Carolina

Northern Kentucky at Nebraska

Chicago State at Creighton

Was at the Xavier/NAU game tonight. Xavier dominated 93-60. Matt Stainbrook (some of you may remember him from his WMU days) lead X with 18 pts and 9 rebs. Xavier shot 67% for the game. Hope the Rockets are able to have similar success on Sunday.

former rocket justin moss had his breakout game in the opener as a 4th yr jr for buffalo. looking like a chiseled god he had 13 boards and 25 points in part due to drawing fouls and draining 11-11 free throws. he also had a huge dunk down the stretch but fouled out on a questionable call and buffalo had to squeak out a win against a decent south dakota st squad. buffalo is young and small at guard. their guards are good but our are better bigger older. buffalo lost one of their energy guys in their post rotation a couple weeks ago. kicked out of school for punching another man who was also a ub student. hurley has some done some good things there but they are a probably a yr away if you look at their team.

akron had a dominant home win against a weak d1 team. cmu stomps a small college team. emu ground out a low scoring ten point victory over a small college school. ball st is playing through dec without their top player- a cincy transfer- but played #25 utah close until a big run by the home team in last 5 minutes. they shot the ball well and caused a lot of turnovers by a good utah offense. i don't think they are big or good enough to compete in the west, but look deeper than last yr and possibly a bit of a sleeper team if they get healthier.

A couple of results from November 20th -

Akron beat Southern Cal 66-46 in the Charleston Classic

Northern Illinois beat Idaho 78-67

Some games scheduled for November 21st in addition to Toledo at Oregon -

Akron meets Miami of Florida in the Charleston Classic

Central Michigan hosts Maine

Eastern Michigan hosts Youngstown State

Buffalo hosts Montana State

Kent State hosts the Salukis

McNeese State hosts Jarvis Christian

Duke meets Temple

Northern Arizona got on the board with a win over Fresno last night

Kent State defeated Southern Illinois 74-51

Eastern Michigan defeated Youngstown State 71-62

Akron lost to Miami (Fla.) 79-51

Central Michigan beat Maine 76-48

Montana State-Buffalo was postponed

McNeese State defeated Jarvis Christian 85-70

Duke leads Temple 36-26 at halftime.

Duke defeated Temple 74-54 Friday night in the Coaches vs. Cancer semifinal.

Games involving UT opponents on Saturday, November 22nd -

Ball State at IUPUI

Western Michigan hosts Drake

Miami hosts Liberty

Eastern Michigan hosts UNC-Greensboro

Kent State hosts Illinois-Chicago

Duke meets Stanford in the Coaches vs. Cancer final

Detroit hosts South Alabama

Maryland-Eastern Shore at St. Francis of Pennsylvania

Bucknell hosts Mt. St. Mary's

Robert Morris at Georgetown

Northern Kentucky hosts Ohio Midwestern

Western Michigan beat Drake 91-75

Ball State lost to IUPUI 71-69 in overtime

Miami defeated Liberty 63-52

Detroit defeated South Alabama 66-53

Maryland-Eastern Shore lost to St. Francis of Pa. 57-53

Robert Morris lost to Georgetown 80-66

Kent State beat Illinois-Chicago 78-60

Duke defeated Stanford 70-59

Bucknell lost to Mt. St. Mary's 73-69

Northern Kentucky defeated Ohio Mid-Western 98-48

Games on November 23rd -

Central Michigan hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Eastern Michigan hosts Longwood

Kent State hosts Yale

Akron faces South Carolina for 3rd place in the Charleston Classic. On ESPNU at 6:30 Eastern.

Northern Arizona at Ole Miss

Central Michigan defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff 75-43

Eastern Michigan beat Longwood 79-48

(11-15-2014 04:39 AM)pono Wrote:  former rocket justin moss had his breakout game in the opener as a 4th yr jr for buffalo. looking like a chiseled god he had 13 boards and 25 points in part due to drawing fouls and draining 11-11 free throws. he also had a huge dunk down the stretch but fouled out on a questionable call and buffalo had to squeak out a win against a decent south dakota st squad. buffalo is young and small at guard. their guards are good but our are better bigger older. buffalo lost one of their energy guys in their post rotation a couple weeks ago. kicked out of school for punching another man who was also a ub student. hurley has some done some good things there but they are a probably a yr away if you look at their team.

akron had a dominant home win against a weak d1 team. cmu stomps a small college team. emu ground out a low scoring ten point victory over a small college school. ball st is playing through dec without their top player- a cincy transfer- but played #25 utah close until a big run by the home team in last 5 minutes. they shot the ball well and caused a lot of turnovers by a good utah offense. i don't think they are big or good enough to compete in the west, but look deeper than last yr and possibly a bit of a sleeper team if they get healthier.

So how did Moss go from a career ending heart condition to this.

BTW, I've heard that other MAC coaches just HATE Hurley.

well, he had additional medical opinions and they determined he could play with a very low risk of having a serious heart event if he was properly monitored. remember, ut was just a few years off of the hairs tragedy and in no mood for chancing something with a player with a diagnosed condition. ut honored his scholarship but after a year he left to pursue his ball dreams went jc and ended up at buffalo. has become the all mac type player he was expected to be at ut and would actually be an ideal pf for this squad (this would have prob been his sr year)