The Bobcat Nation

I robbed this off Will Holden's post, but figured it needs it's own thread.

Nov. 3 - Saskatchewan (exhibition)
Nov. 9 - Valley City (exhibition)
Nov. 14 - at Nevada
Nov. 17 - Colo. Christian
Nov. 21 - Southern Mississippi
Nov. 25 - at San Francisco
Nov. 28 - at Oregon
Dec. 4 - *Northern Colo.
Dec. 5 - *Northern Arizona, 7:05 p.m.
Dec. 9 - at Memphis
Dec. 12 - Northern New Mexico
Dec. 18 - UCSB
Dec. 21 - at Cal Poly
Dec. 23 - at Boise State
Jan. 1 - *at Weber State
Jan 3 - *at Idaho State (Altitude), 2 p.m.
Jan 8 - *Portland State, 7 p.m.
Jan 10 - *Eastern Washington (Montana’s News Network), 2 p.m.
Jan. 16 - *at Sacramento State
Jan. 18 - at CS Bakersfield
Jan 23 - *Montana (Montana’s News Network), 7:05 p.m.
Jan 28 - *at Northern Arizona
Jan. 31 - *at Northern Colorado (Altitude), 2 p.m.
Feb. 5 - *Idaho State, 7 p.m.
Feb. 6 - *Weber State, 7 p.m.
Feb. 12 - *at Eastern Washington
Feb. 13 - *at Portland State
Feb. 18 - *Sacramento State, 7 p.m.
Feb. 20 - Bracketbuster, TBA
Feb. 27 - *at Montana (Montana’s News Network), 7:05 p.m.
Mar. 6 - Big Sky Tournament: First round
Mar. 9 - Big Sky Tournament: Semifinals
Mar. 10 - Big Sky Tournament: Championship

Memphis at home?? How the hell did we pull that off?

Pretty good schedule, IMO, with Oregon and Nevada in there. But we start the conference season on the 4th of December???? WTF? This is even earlier than last season. When will Fullerton pull his head out of his @$$?

Very nice schedule.

But is the Memphis game really in Bozeman??

grizzh8r wrote:Memphis at home?? How the hell did we pull that off?

Pretty good schedule, IMO, with Oregon and Nevada in there. But we start the conference season on the 4th of December???? WTF? This is even earlier than last season. When will Fullerton pull his head out of his @$$?

I'd guess it's due to the Bracket Buster game in Feb.- same as last year, but that is damn early to be starting conference play.

GOKATS wrote:

grizzh8r wrote:Memphis at home?? How the hell did we pull that off?

Pretty good schedule, IMO, with Oregon and Nevada in there. But we start the conference season on the 4th of December???? WTF? This is even earlier than last season. When will Fullerton pull his head out of his @$$?

I'd guess it's due to the Bracket Buster game in Feb.- same as last year, but that is damn early to be starting conference play.

Ahh, you're probably correct.

And yes it is.

No. Memphis a road game according to the schedule I received.

TomCat88 wrote:No. Memphis a road game according to the schedule I received.

Certainly makes more sense. Still, a very good schedule.

TomCat88 wrote:No. Memphis a road game according to the schedule I received.

Yep, the Memphis game is on the road. I'll edit the post I robbed from Will.

Every year I hate the two games we play against crap teams at home. I like the rest of the schedule and I like how we have 5 (slight chance of 6 with the bracket buster) games on TV this year. I would also assume that the Memphis game will be on the tube somewhere, so that would make 6 maybe 7.

orsalak wrote:Every year I hate the two games we play against crap teams at home. I like the rest of the schedule and I like how we have 5 (slight chance of 6 with the bracket buster) games on TV this year. I would also assume that the Memphis game will be on the tube somewhere, so that would make 6 maybe 7.

I know CSTV (now CBS College Sports) covered Memphis extensively the past two seasons. Who knows if that will continue with the departure of Coach Calipari.

Haha, Coach Huse will really get a chance to whoop up on his old rival of Valley City State from his days at Jamestown College. (Not that he didn't usually take my old Vikings anyways)

WSU's OOC:

Nov 2 UC-Colorado Springs (Ex) Ogden, UT 7:00 PM
Nov 7 Colorado Christian (Ex) Ogden, UT 7:00 PM
Nov 13 Utah State Ogden, UT 7:30 PM
Nov 17 @ UC-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 8:00 PM
Nov 22 @ Seattle Univerity Seattle, WA 2:00 PM
Nov 24 Western State Ogden, UT 7:00 PM
Nov 27 @ BYU Provo, UT 7:00 PM
Dec 2 Utah Ogden, UT 7:00 PM
Dec 9 Montana Tech Ogden, UT 7:30 PM
Dec 12 Southern Utah Ogden, UT 7:00 PM
Dec 17 UNLV Las Vegas, NV 8:00 PM
Duel In The Desert Logan, UT
Dec 21 Morehead State Logan, UT 5:00 PM
Dec 22 CS-Fullerton Logan, UT 5:00 PM
Dec 23 Utah State Logan, UT 8:00 PM



PSU's OOC:

Nov. 4, Wed., WESTERN OREGON (exhibition), 7:05 p.m.
Nov. 13-15, Fri.-Sun., @ Athletes In Action Basketball Classic, Seattle, WA
Fri. vs. Belmont, 5 p.m.
Sat. vs. Wright State, 2:30 p.m.
Sun. vs. Washington, 2:30 p.m.
Nov. 21, Sat., CAL POLY, 7:05 p.m.
Nov. 29, Sun., @ Stanford, 6 p.m.
Dec. 2, Wed., @ Portland, 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 9, Wed., LINFIELD, 7:05 p.m.
Dec. 13, Sun., @ Pepperdine, 2 p.m.
Dec. 15, Tues., @ St. Mary’s, 7 p.m.
Dec. 19, Sat., vs. Washington State (at Toyota Center, Kennewick, WA), TBA
Dec. 21, Mon., @ Boise State, 7 p.m.
Dec. 29, Tues., WILLAMETTE, 5:05 p.m.


EWU's OOC:

Nov. 1 St. Martin's Exhibition 1:05 PM
Nov. 8 Mont. St.-Billings Exhibition 1:05 PM
Nov. 14 Portland 1:05 PM
Nov. 16 at Washington St. TBA
Nov. 17 Whitman 7:05 PM
Nov. 21 at Texas-Arlington TBA
Nov. 24 Boise St. 7:05 PM
Nov. 28 at Idaho TBA
Dec. 1 Walla Walla 7:05 PM
Dec. 5 at Portland St. * TBA
Dec. 12 Seattle 1:05 PM
Dec. 17 at Nevada TBA
Dec. 19 at Brigham Young TBA
Dec. 22 vs. Chicago St. @ Las Vegas, Nevada at Las Vegas Invitational TBA
Dec. 23 vs. TBD @ Las Vegas, Nevada at Las Vegas Invitational TBA
Dec. 28 at Gonzaga

It looks like the Cats have ended their agreement to schedule one home game with a Frontier Conference team each year. Does anyone know if this is true? Mslacat? Does anyone care that this has apparently gone by the wayside?

duelalumnicat wrote:It looks like the Cats have ended their agreement to schedule one home game with a Frontier Conference team each year. Does anyone know if this is true? Mslacat? Does anyone care that this has apparently gone by the wayside?

I have no information, but I'd rather NOT play Frontier schools. Just my 2 cents.

MSU's schedule looks comparable to the rest of the league schedules.

Looks like MSU may have gotten a bit of a break thanks to the Sunday Altitude TV games, as they'll only play one back-to-back road trip in conference play (EWU/PSU on Feb 12/13). Nice to see that we will be on Altitude 3 times, 2 of which are road games! Too bad we couldn't keep the Christmas tournament going this year, though. I've always enjoyed that.

Oh, and one more thing: Thanks to the BSC for finally figuring out that it's a good idea to schedule both Cat/Griz games while school is actually in session!

grizzh8r wrote:

duelalumnicat wrote:It looks like the Cats have ended their agreement to schedule one home game with a Frontier Conference team each year. Does anyone know if this is true? Mslacat? Does anyone care that this has apparently gone by the wayside?

I have no information, but I'd rather NOT play Frontier schools. Just my 2 cents.

MSU's schedule looks comparable to the rest of the league schedules.

All things being equal, I'd agree, but that's only if you don't schedule out-of-state NAIA schools like Northern New Mexico. Or Valley City? C'mon, at least there's some local interest playing Carroll, Tech, or Rocky Mountain.

Also, does anyone know the maximum number of games (non-exhibition) that a D1 team can schedule? Just curious.

Billings Cat wrote:

grizzh8r wrote:

duelalumnicat wrote:It looks like the Cats have ended their agreement to schedule one home game with a Frontier Conference team each year. Does anyone know if this is true? Mslacat? Does anyone care that this has apparently gone by the wayside?

I have no information, but I'd rather NOT play Frontier schools. Just my 2 cents.

MSU's schedule looks comparable to the rest of the league schedules.

All things being equal, I'd agree, but that's only if you don't schedule out-of-state NAIA schools like Northern New Mexico. Or Valley City? C'mon, at least there's some local interest playing Carroll, Tech, or Rocky Mountain.

Also, does anyone know the maximum number of games (non-exhibition) that a D1 team can schedule? Just curious.

Let me clarify - I'd rather not schedule ANY NAIA or D-II schools. Unforunatley, due to our low-major status, that is impossible, unless we want to play most of our OOC games on the road...

Billings Cat wrote:Also, does anyone know the maximum number of games (non-exhibition) that a D1 team can schedule? Just curious.

Like anything else to do with the NCAA it's clear as mud, but from what I understand it's 27, so Big Sky teams would be allowed 11 OOC. This year the Cats have 12, so I'm guessing the BracketBuster game is an exception.