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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The 2022-23 Indiana State men's basketball schedule is complete as the Missouri Valley Conference announced the 20-game conference slate on Thursday morning.

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We face our easiest opponent (D2 Trinity Christian College) and (arguably) toughest opponent Drake in back-to-back home games.
 
Is the Northern Illinois game a new addition? I don't remember that one.

Also, this feels like the most non-con home games we've had in a long time.
 
I'm so glad we're substituting a home game against Belmont and a road game against Bradley, so that we can play Trinity Christian and Tusculum. That one game against Belmont, an opponent that people actually recognize, would probably draw as many people as those two non-D1 games.

Dear MVC,
Please expand the schedule to 22 games in the near future!
 
Sycamorefan96 said:
I'm so glad we're substituting a home game against Belmont and a road game against Bradley, so that we can play Trinity Christian and Tusculum. That one game against Belmont, an opponent that people actually recognize, would probably draw as many people as those two non-D1 games.

Dear MVC,
Please expand the schedule to 22 games in the near future!
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You know tusculum is an exhibition, right?
 

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I’d guess the 20 game unbalanced schedule sticks for awhile. The bottom mvc teams are usually pretty low in Kenpom, net, rpi or whatever. Having the top teams pile up wins vs the bottom does very little for their NET ranking. MVC trying to be progressive with scheduling

I do think Indiana state could benefit in the standings from the unbalanced schedule this year because it’s clear they are perceived to be in the bottom 5.
 
BrokerZ said:
Is the Northern Illinois game a new addition? I don't remember that one.

Also, this feels like the most non-con home games we've had in a long time.
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Negative on NIU...not a new addition.
Agreed on the home games, pretty solid.
 
dino said:
You know tusculum is an exhibition, right?
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I didn't until now. I just figured it would be cross town rival Rose Hulman again. It would sure be nice if ISU listed it as an exhibition game on their online schedule. It actually makes me feel better about our schedule knowing that we really only have one non-D1 on the schedule.
 
Sycamorefan96 said:
I didn't until now. I just figured it would be cross town rival Rose Hulman again. It would sure be nice if ISU listed it as an exhibition game on their online schedule. It actually makes me feel better about our schedule knowing that we really only have one non-D1 on the schedule.
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Do you forget we always play an exhibition first?
 
Sycamorefan96 said:
I didn't until now. I just figured it would be cross town rival Rose Hulman again. It would sure be nice if ISU listed it as an exhibition game on their online schedule. It actually makes me feel better about our schedule knowing that we really only have one non-D1 on the schedule.
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Look up where they're located and you'll know why they were given a call.
 

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Jason Svoboda said:
Look up where they're located and you'll know why they were given a call.
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Yeah that's not far at all from LMU. I think I've seen them on several OVC and SOCON schools' schedules in the past, so their location makes sense. I'm just glad we're back to playing D2 schools again in the exhibition game, which is the lowest division we should ever play.

I think I remember seeing on here that Trinity Christian was added because a game we had lined up with a P5 fell through at the last minute. I guess I can't fault the staff too much for having to add that game, since there probably weren't too many options out there.

I'm just glad that we really only have one non-D1 team on the schedule. Hopefully from now on most years that number will be zero (not including the exhibition obviously).
 
Jason Svoboda said:
I assume NIU was to finish up that H/H? I can't remember the specifics of that one from a few years back.
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That sounds right, but it's hard to say because...we played at NIU in Nov 2016, then we were supposed to play at NIU in Dec 2021 but it was canceled cuz of Covid in the NIU program. And now they're coming to our place.
 

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Sycamorefan96 said:
Yeah that's not far at all from LMU. I think I've seen them on several OVC and SOCON schools' schedules in the past, so their location makes sense. I'm just glad we're back to playing D2 schools again in the exhibition game, which is the lowest division we should ever play.

I think I remember seeing on here that Trinity Christian was added because a game we had lined up with a P5 fell through at the last minute. I guess I can't fault the staff too much for having to add that game, since there probably weren't too many options out there.

I'm just glad that we really only have one non-D1 team on the schedule. Hopefully from now on most years that number will be zero (not including the exhibition obviously).
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One of our guys came from Tusculum too, right?
 
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