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Schedule is fine IMO.  Plenty enough hard games with the non-conference and conference schedules.  So. Car, TN, Creighton all should be tough.  Gonzaga always gives us a tough game.  FGCU has usually been good too.  So that's about half the non-conference schedule.  The main reason last year's schedule was so tough was the Thanksgiving tournament.  That tournament was stacked with top teams.  You can't get that every year, even if you want to.  Most tourneys are more like the one we are going to than like that one.  Plus the travel was brutal last season.  This season will be much easier in that regard, which I hope allows the players to be generally more rested than when they are trekking cross country a couple of times in a season.

[chimera]

Schedule is fine IMO.  Plenty enough hard games with the non-conference and conference schedules.  So. Car, TN, Creighton all should be tough.  Gonzaga always gives us a tough game.  FGCU has usually been good too.  So that's about half the non-conference schedule.  The main reason last year's schedule was so tough was the Thanksgiving tournament.  That tournament was stacked with top teams.  You can't get that every year, even if you want to.  Most tourneys are more like the one we are going to than like that one.  Plus the travel was brutal last season.  This season will be much easier in that regard, which I hope allows the players to be generally more rested than when they are trekking cross country a couple of times in a season.