Loyola Chicago Home: Fordham, George Washington, Rhode Island, St. Bonaventure, VCU, Dayton, George Mason, Saint Joseph’s, Saint Louis Away: Davidson, Duquesne, La Salle, Massachusetts, Richmond, Dayton, George Mason, Saint Joseph’s, Saint Louis
Not bad. I like 3 out of 4 of our Home/Road pairings. They gave us a break not starting us out at VCU & St. Bonnies-- really tough places to play even in rebuilding years. On paper, we should win at least two road games (gulp)-- Duquense and La Salle should be 80% likely wins even on the road. Would have liked to have Fordham or GW instead of Mason as a Home/Road, but I guess we had to get one public school just to be fair/inclusive.
Looks like I'll be making the trip to Richmond, Saint Louis, and maybe Dayton. Plus Brooklyn for the tournament.
It's going to be our best home schedule in many years. Many, many years. I suspect Dayton will be ranked by the time they play here, and possibly Saint Louis. Besides the better matchups numerically, how great is it to have fellow Jesuits Fordham, St. Joe's and Saint Louis coming to Gentile Arena in the same year.... now add Dayton (likely a top 25 program), and VCU (one of the top 25 programs of the century so far).
We'll likely have four top 100 KenPom games at home (I'm thinking Dayton, Saint Louis, VCU, and maybe Rhody) and four on the road (Dayton, Saint Louis, Davidson, Richmond), plus at least one top 100 team (maybe three) in the Myrtle Beach MTE.
Now that you see the actual schedule fleshing out, it's pretty exciting.
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