This is the time of year when MBB schedules get down right weird. Games at 9:45 a.m., not PM. Sunday games, but not for us. And so on. [And FB plays mid-week games.]

Anyway, three games on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday this week.

As Sam noted, Tuesday is DH Tuesday, MBB hosting Goshen and the football team traveling to Akron.

Thursday we play UofM at the Convo. The team from Ann Arbor couldn't find Ypsilanti without GPS (or maybe even with) and declined an invitation to visit (The last time they came to EMU the world was starting to worry about Y2K). This year they sent their team from Dearborn. The boys from Dearborn gladly accepted. This game is part of the Jamaica tourney. EMU vs. UofM-Dearborn in the Michigan cold.

And finally, EMU travels to Denton, TX on Saturday to play N. Texas in another campus game of the Jamaica tourney.

Enjoy and stay warm. After Texas comes Jamaica and then California...

Are you sure the UM-Dearborn game is part of the Jamaica tournament? I know EMU website has it listed as such in the schedule. But I assume that might be a misprint??? The Jaimaica Classic website has only eight teams listed and certainly UM-Dearborn is not one of them. N Texas at their site seems like one of the games though.

(11-10-2019 10:00 PM)RamyEMU Wrote:  Are you sure the UM-Dearborn game is part of the Jamaica tournament? I know EMU website has it listed as such in the schedule. But I assume that might be a misprint??? The Jaimaica Classic website has only eight teams listed and certainly UM-Dearborn is not one of them. N Texas at their site seems like one of the games though.

Its part of the "on-campus" games.

https://www.bloggingthebracket.com/2018/...anksgiving

(Ctrl+F Eastern Michigan lol)

I don't know exactly what it means but they do this sometimes where they have "On-campus" games with lesser teams.

Does anyone know how the Jamaica Classic will work? If we win, do we keep playing? Or are those the only games we play for sure?

Couldn’t find anything clear about that on their website.

EDIt: Looks like we only get the two games in Jamaica and the two campus games, per the link mpleafan posted.

(11-11-2019 10:56 AM)EagleSam Wrote:  Does anyone know how the Jamaica Classic will work? If we win, do we keep playing? Or are those the only games we play for sure?

Couldn’t find anything clear about that on their website.

I think they tourneys are scheduling gyrations and not true tourneys where there are brackets and the winners advance to the semis and then finals.

Basically, they are a way to get classified as a tourney and exempt against the NCAA limit on max. number of games.

I am NOT sure about this, but we'll play 4 games but it might only count as 2... (I can check).

(11-11-2019 11:02 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(11-11-2019 10:56 AM)EagleSam Wrote:  Does anyone know how the Jamaica Classic will work? If we win, do we keep playing? Or are those the only games we play for sure?

Couldn’t find anything clear about that on their website.

I think they tourneys are scheduling gyrations and not true tourneys where there are brackets and the winners advance to the semis and then finals.

Basically, they are a way to get classified as a tourney and exempt against the NCAA limit on max. number of games.

I am NOT sure about this, but we'll play 4 games but it might only count as 2... (I can check).

They should all count. We have 13 ooc games (same amount as last year), and all 4 of the Jamaica Classic games are included in that total.

(11-11-2019 11:05 AM)EagleSam Wrote:  

(11-11-2019 11:02 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(11-11-2019 10:56 AM)EagleSam Wrote:  Does anyone know how the Jamaica Classic will work? If we win, do we keep playing? Or are those the only games we play for sure?

Couldn’t find anything clear about that on their website.

I think they tourneys are scheduling gyrations and not true tourneys where there are brackets and the winners advance to the semis and then finals.

Basically, they are a way to get classified as a tourney and exempt against the NCAA limit on max. number of games.

I am NOT sure about this, but we'll play 4 games but it might only count as 2... (I can check).

They should all count. We have 13 ooc games (same amount as last year), and all 4 of the Jamaica Classic games are included in that total.

By count I mean against the NCAA limit on number of games a D-I team can play.

Oh, my mistake.