Louisiana Men’s Basketball 2021-22 Non-Conference Schedule

[Hatch]

My mistake on that one we have not have a P5 in the dome in how many years or even a solid G5 team not from Louisiana.

P5 and G5 don't exactly translate to basketball well but I get your point. I would say the last quality out of state non conference team to come to the Dome was UCSB 2 years ago. That is a team that won the Big West last year and went to the tournament as a 12 seed and almost pulled off the classic 12-5 upset against Creighton. The year before (when we played them) they were 2nd in the Big West before the tournament was cancelled due to Covid.

That was actually the year we "bought" 2 decent non conference games. The problem is UCSB on the schedule doesn't move the needle with the average fan and does nothing to drive up attendance for an early non conference game.

As far as as "P5" level team you would have to have to go back 15 years now to Tennessee, which was the last time we did a 2 for 1.

[cajuns80]

P5 and G5 don't exactly translate to basketball well but I get your point. I would say the last quality out of state non conference team to come to the Dome was UCSB 2 years ago. That is a team that won the Big West last year and went to the tournament as a 12 seed and almost pulled off the classic 12-5 upset against Creighton. The year before (when we played them) they were 2nd in the Big West before the tournament was cancelled due to Covid.

That was actually the year we "bought" 2 decent non conference games. The problem is UCSB on the schedule doesn't move the needle with the average fan and does nothing to drive up attendance for an early non conference game.

As far as as "P5" level team you would have to have to go back 15 years now to Tennessee, which was the last time we did a 2 for 1.

Marlin's schedule has a couple factors....1st we arent paying a whole lot of money to get teams so makes scheduling pretty tough....2nd, what we consider peer teams probably don't want to schedule us home and home because they get nothing out of it, our RPI is abysmal almost every year

[cajun4life]

Until the SBC stops allowing non D1 games to be scheduled this is what will happen. It’s really unfortunate, because there is a lot of money to be made in a good basketball conference.

It’s time Marlin retire. Have a national coaching search and get this program back to consistently competing for the SBC auto-bid.

[CajunRebel]

For all the people saying Marlin is just trying to schedule easy games, this is probably the toughest OOC schedule we’ve ever had.

It’s just crappy that none of the good games are at home.

I say it every year. We are victims of our location. We aren’t in a good basketball region so unless we’re willing to pay to get quality mid-major teams to come here, we don’t have many options.

[Million$Mullet]

For all the people saying Marlin is just trying to schedule easy games, this is probably the toughest OOC schedule we’ve ever had.

It’s just crappy that none of the good games are at home.

I say it every year. We are victims of our location. We aren’t in a good basketball region so unless we’re willing to pay to get quality mid-major teams to come here, we don’t have many options.

The toughest ooc we’ve ever had? LOL

[cajun4life]

For all the people saying Marlin is just trying to schedule easy games, this is probably the toughest OOC schedule we’ve ever had.

It’s just crappy that none of the good games are at home.

I say it every year. We are victims of our location. We aren’t in a good basketball region so unless we’re willing to pay to get quality mid-major teams to come here, we don’t have many options.

How many excuses will Marlin get?

This schedule is garbage.

[JMV JustMyView]

How many excuses will Marlin get?

This schedule is garbage.

Will not see me or Vob in the stands.

[Turbine]

For all the people saying Marlin is just trying to schedule easy games, this is probably the toughest OOC schedule we’ve ever had.

It’s just crappy that none of the good games are at home.

I say it every year. We are victims of our location. We aren’t in a good basketball region so unless we’re willing to pay to get quality mid-major teams to come here, we don’t have many options.

Yeah it's a shame all those teams driving through and flying over Lafayette for away games can't find a way to do a stopover game at Louisiana.

[CajunRebel]

The toughest ooc we’ve ever had? LOL

We’re playing 4 teams that finished in the top 100 in the NCAA net rankings. I could be wrong, but I think it has been quite a while since we’ve done that.

5 Houston
67 Indiana
71 La Tech
89 Marshall

[BeauCajun]

Will not see me or Vob in the stands.

We’ll be there for every home game and maybe a few on the road. We’re Cajun basketball fans.