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I heard the TV announcers tonight (Jan 22 ) mention that there had been a lot of discussion about the nights of the games this year. Anybody know why there was a change this year, what the thoughts are about next year, preferences etc. ?

Whoever sets the schedule for SoCon basketball has obviously never played the game and had to endure the travel/class/practice schedule of a college basketball player,

Flagman wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:46 pm

Whoever sets the schedule for SoCon basketball has obviously never played the game and had to endure the travel/class/practice schedule of a college basketball player,

I don't know if it's this way for every team, but Furman's schedule actually lays out pretty well for missing the least amount of class possible considering it's college basketball and the travel is significant. Only have back-to-back road games once during SoCon play and that's a Saturday-Wednesday, so the guys will only miss classes on Wednesday (and maybe late classes on Tuesday/early Thursday classes). The rest are one-off trips, where they'll miss 1-1.5 days of class tops. Not bad. Especially considering some of those Thursday-Saturday double road game trips in previous years would have involved missing 2-2.5 days of class.

Heard from a reliable source that other socon teams didn't really like playing Wofford and Furman back to back which had been the travel schedule in past years i.e. teams come to play FU on Thurs. then travel over to WC to play there and same for FU and WC on the road...?

Heard from a reliable source that other socon teams didn't really like playing Wofford and Furman back to back which had been the travel schedule in past years i.e. teams come to play FU on Thurs. then travel over to WC to play there and same for FU and WC on the road...?

Why does the midweek games always have to be the same day? Why not some Tuesday, some Wednesday and some Thursday since they are no longer doing the 2 game travel schedule. Wednesday's are definitely not working for us attendance wise. I've heard one reason is it is a church night.

I hope I can call and find out the night of the week-day games before next season. I need to know which night to count on there being a Furman BB game.