SIU's schedule

[tornado]

The teams for next year's Chicago Invitational have been announced, and SIU will get to host two home games
vs. Austin Peay and Charleston Southern...then once they get to Chicago, they get two games against these opponents, but not yet decided which ones...
........Purdue, Wright State and Richmond.

[LittleBrave]

The teams for next year's Chicago Invitational have been announced, and SIU will get to host two home games
vs. Austin Peay and Charleston Southern...then once they get to Chicago, they get two games against these opponents, but not yet decided which ones...
........Purdue, Wright State and Richmond.

Looks like their Juco players will be tested early. (when they play in Chicago) They might be playing at U of I too, right.
Tornado, do you know the arena where the Chicago games will be played?

[TheAsianSensation]

Austin Peay is reasonable for a home tourney game and either Purdue or Richmond for one game in Chicago is also beyond reasonable. Sufficient job there.

[Da Coach]

Austin Peay will be a pretty good team next year. They lost their leading scorer, but return everyone else. This will be a tough game for SIU.

[tornado]

...
Tornado, do you know the arena where the Chicago games will be played?

"Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates from Nov. 26-27"

http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/060210aaa.html

[electricmayhem]

This will be rough... I live 20 minutes from Sears Centre, but how do I cheer for SIU?

I'm hoping SIU gets Purdue to at least help league RPI. Purdue could win it all next year.

[LittleBrave]

[QUOTE=electricmayhem;183682]This will be rough... I live 20 minutes from Sears Centre, but how do I cheer for SIU?
QUOTE]

I live in Chi-town, so I might make the trip out to Hoffman Estates. I will be rooting for SIU, as I do for all Valley teams in non-conf. play.
My wife is an SIU alum, and I would say I like SIU as much as U of I (they are both a Far 2nd place to BU)

[tornado]

Here's the SIU story on the tournament and possible matchup with Purdue...

http://thesouthern.com/sports/college/salukimania/article_8bfdbf5a-6ecb-11df-8260-001cc4c002e0.html

But something really stood out to me in this article...
"SIU returns three starters from last year's team that finished 15-15, led by
incoming senior forward Carlton Fay. Fay averaged 12.0 points and 3.4
rebounds, while shooting 38 percent from 3-point range. Junior guard Justin
Bocot (9.1 points) and sophomore center Gene Teague (6.1 ppg., 4.6 rpg.)
also started last season.
Teague was named the Missouri Valley Conference
Freshman of the Year."

Oh, really??? Does this writer have a source for this info??? Because I would have checked this site...
the official Missouri Valley site which clearly states that
Evansville' Colt Ryan was the Missouri Valley Freshman of the Year....

http://www.mvc-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7600&KEY=&ATCLID=204898943&SPID=2901&SPSID=38948

But maybe there's a push on to make this true by just repeating it often enough, because one other writer here says the exact same thing....(probably just read the other guy's column)...
"conference Freshman of the Year Eugene Teague"

http://www.thereporteronline.net/atf.php?sid=20774&current_edition=2010-06-03

[Bravesfan]

The teams for next year's Chicago Invitational have been announced, and SIU will get to host two home games
vs. Austin Peay and Charleston Southern...then once they get to Chicago, they get two games against these opponents, but not yet decided which ones...
........Purdue, Wright State and Richmond.

This is definitely an improvement already over last year's non-conference schedule, especially with Illinois in the mix as well. Hopefully they get Purdue to improve their SOS if for nothing else.

[tornado]

I just read a premium blog over on one of the Purdue sites, and they consider the field of this year's
Chicago Invitational to be "kind of laughable" considering they expect to be strong...
(although there are lingering concerns over how Robbie Hummel is progressing with his terrible knee injury and surgery.)

but the guy says two things that are just downright ignorant....

--first, he calls the level of competition Purdue is going to face, "an AAU tournament"
If Purdue approaches the games with this attitude, they are going to get beat. Every one of the teams in this tourney are better than their usual fare early in their past few seasons...
Maybe Purdue would rather stay home and clobber the likes of Cal. State-Northridge, SIUE, Arkansas Pine Bluffs, IUPU-Ft. Wayne, Bethune Cookman, Lipscomb, Texas Southern, Florida Internaitonal, Northern Colorado, Delaware State, and SEMO -- all of whom are representative of the non-conference cupcakes they have hosted the past couple years!

--what the heck is with that really absurd last comment that as soon as they see Purdue in the tourney, other decent teams don't want to be part of it?? (see below)
Give me a freakin' break -- does this guy know how hard just about every decent mid-major is working and slaving over their schedule to get the chance to catch a team like Purdue on a neutral court??
There must be 100 teams inside the Top 150 RPI that would have begged to play in Chicago against Purdue...the guy is crazy.

Here are a couple of his i-d-i-o-t-ic comments...
"The Boilermakers should roll through this thing without so much as breaking a
figurative sweat, so long as some sort of terrible infectious disease ravage its
locker room sometime around mid-November.

Purdue must have signed up for what was supposed to be a solid event and
ended up as the No. 1 seed in an AAU tournament.
And so it ends up playing games it can't afford to lose more than it needs to
win if it wants that coveted No. 1 seed.
Maybe it's a backhanded compliment: People find out Purdue is part of these
events and want nothing to do with it."

[Future Walk-On]

I just read a premium blog over on one of the Purdue sites, and they consider the field of this year's
Chicago Invitational to be "kind of laughable" considering they expect to be strong...
(although there are lingering concerns over how Robbie Hummel is progressing with his terrible knee injury and surgery.)

but the guy says two things that are just downright ignorant....

--first, he calls the level of competition Purdue is going to face, "an AAU tournament"
If Purdue approaches the games with this attitude, they are going to get beat. Every one of the teams in this tourney are better than their usual fare early in their past few seasons...
Maybe Purdue would rather stay home and clobber the likes of Cal. State-Northridge, SIUE, Arkansas Pine Bluffs, IUPU-Ft. Wayne, Bethune Cookman, Lipscomb, Texas Southern, Florida Internaitonal, Northern Colorado, Delaware State, and SEMO -- all of whom are representative of the non-conference cupcakes they have hosted the past couple years!

--what the heck is with that really absurd last comment that as soon as they see Purdue in the tourney, other decent teams don't want to be part of it?? (see below)
Give me a freakin' break -- does this guy know how hard just about every decent mid-major is working and slaving over their schedule to get the chance to catch a team like Purdue on a neutral court??
There must be 100 teams inside the Top 150 RPI that would have begged to play in Chicago against Purdue...the guy is crazy.

Here are a couple of his i-d-i-o-t-ic comments...
"The Boilermakers should roll through this thing without so much as breaking a
figurative sweat, so long as some sort of terrible infectious disease ravage its
locker room sometime around mid-November.

Purdue must have signed up for what was supposed to be a solid event and
ended up as the No. 1 seed in an AAU tournament.
And so it ends up playing games it can't afford to lose more than it needs to
win if it wants that coveted No. 1 seed.
Maybe it's a backhanded compliment: People find out Purdue is part of these
events and want nothing to do with it."

I agree with the Purdue will roll through this tournament comment......I am sure the team isn't overlooking these games....

[BUFanatic]

on schedules, any idea when ours is going to be released?

[TheAsianSensation]

Here are a couple of his i-d-i-o-t-ic comments...

...


Maybe it's a backhanded compliment: People find out Purdue is part of these
events and want nothing to do with it.

That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life.

[tornado]

on schedules, any idea when ours is going to be released?

it is usually available by mid-August so the TV and radio coverage can begin plans...

[jasonpeoria911]

Yah looks like schedule should be available by 1st or 2nd week of September. Last year, the MVC schedule was released on September 4th and the non-conference portion was released just before that. A thread was started around August 15th discussing the various games confirmed for the non-conference schedule.

Jason