As I understand it, this will be on opening night.

(06-03-2017 04:26 PM)RodShaw2 Wrote:  

(06-03-2017 02:30 PM)GC_Buc Wrote:  This is a great game for us!

Hopefully it will bring in lots of money otherwise I don't see what is great about it.

Yeah nothing great about playing a blue blood on national TV with nothing to lose and everything to gain....

(06-03-2017 07:38 PM)brock20 Wrote:  

(06-03-2017 04:26 PM)RodShaw2 Wrote:  

(06-03-2017 02:30 PM)GC_Buc Wrote:  This is a great game for us!

Hopefully it will bring in lots of money otherwise I don't see what is great about it.

Yeah nothing great about playing a blue blood on national TV with nothing to lose and everything to gain....

I wouldn't mind playing ANY other SEC team (maybe not first game of the season) but Kentucky.. No..

Was this game "leaked" to help with recruiting I wonder?

(06-03-2017 09:16 PM)Efan Wrote:  Was this game "leaked" to help with recruiting I wonder?

I would think so. It came from Rothstein first instead of the Kentucky people. Usually those guys would have been the ones to break it.

(06-03-2017 04:26 PM)RodShaw2 Wrote:  

(06-03-2017 02:30 PM)GC_Buc Wrote:  This is a great game for us!

Hopefully it will bring in lots of money otherwise I don't see what is great about it.

Have to agree on this. BTW Harvard is getting $90,000 to play at Rupp on Dec 2.

Rothstein just tweeted ETSU at Xavier

Hopefully we can upset some people this year.

I hope we get some home games. So far all that's been announced are road games.

(06-04-2017 10:48 AM)Bucster Wrote:  I hope we get some home games. So far all that's been announced are road games.

Me too. Pretty sure renewals were the same as last year and last year had Tennessee at home.

Kentucky?! whyyyyyyyy

(06-06-2017 08:46 AM)Buced_Up Wrote:  Kentucky?! whyyyyyyyy

1980: ETSU vs. Kentucky, Rupp Arena, opening game of the 1980-81 season.

Kentucky was talented and ranked #1. On the team were Sam Bowie, who would be an All-American that year; Dirk Minniefield, who would go on to play seven seasons in the NBA; Melvin Turpin, future All-American, who would play five seasons in the NBA; and future All-SEC player, Bristol's Derrick Hord.

No one expected much from the Bucs going into that season (and they were right, the Bucs finished under .500), but they took the Wildcats to the brink before losing 62-57.

Why not play Kentucky?

I'm not scared. Let's play the best.

Just realized Ike Brown dropped 25/14 last time we played at Rupp in 2010-2011 http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb...=303160096

This is a game with much more to gain than lose. Win and shock the basketball world. Lose and nobody gets too upset. I genuinely enjoy seeing the bucs take on the best in the country but Kentucky is the one exception. I loathe that greasy weasel Calipari and what he's done to college basketball and their fans make Alabama football fans seem like reasonable and intelligent humans.

Ike lit em up. Yeah we lost, but I still contend he stole the show.

(06-06-2017 12:14 PM)MTBuc Wrote:  This is a game with much more to gain than lose. Win and shock the basketball world. Lose and nobody gets too upset. I genuinely enjoy seeing the bucs take on the best in the country but Kentucky is the one exception. I loathe that greasy weasel Calipari and what he's done to college basketball and their fans make Alabama football fans seem like reasonable and intelligent humans.

Not all of us are insufferable!!! (I will admit more than a few are though.)

My daughter and I are already planning our trip up to Lexington. (It's Nov 17th for those that haven't yet heard.) We won't be disappointed either way it turns out, but we will be rooting for the Bucs.

KY will have one of the youngest college basketball teams ever this season. I know it won't be easy, but I honestly think the Bucs might have a tiny chance against them.

(06-06-2017 11:44 AM)Buced_Up Wrote:  Just realized Ike Brown dropped 25/14 last time we played at Rupp in 2010-2011 http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb...=303160096

I was at that game and Ike was a monster.

Interesting take on UK non-conference scheduling with a cursory discussion of upcoming ETSU season.

http://www.midmajormadness.com/2017/6/7/...tah-valley

Maybe we will play some of these teams.

Adolph Rupp Classic

Nov. 16, 17, 20, 22, 26: Campus sites (Kentucky; UIC)

Nov. 16: Delaware State Hornets (MEAC) at UIC Flames (Horizon)

Nov. 17: ETSU Buccaneers (SoCon) at Kentucky Wildcats (SEC)

Nov. 18: Fort Wayne Mastodons (Summit) at UIC

Nov. 20: Troy Trojans (Sun Belt) at Kentucky

Nov. 22: IPFW at Kentucky

Nov. 26: UIC at Kentucky

Nov 29: UIC at Troy