December 5, 2006
A Look at the BYU Men’s Basketball Schedule
Written by: John
Thanks to BYU winning another close one (Translation: overtime win) to Weber State, I decided to take a look at the BYU basketball schedule to see what’s to come. BYU’s currently 4-2 with loses to UCLA (which is a quality loss) and Boise State which may or may not be bad. here’s the teams the games they’ve played so far.
11/02/2006 Brock University
11/08/2006 Univ. of Montevallo
11/10/2006 Cougar Tipoff
11/15/2006 @ UCLA
11/18/2006 Idaho State
11/22/2006 Portland
11/24/2006 Southern Utah
11/29/2006 @ Boise State
12/02/2006 @ Weber State
Looking at the rest of the non conference schedule I think BYU is going to have a really hard time. San Jose State and Western Oregon are the only possible cupcake games, but I bet those games will be closer than we’d like. Michigan State, Seton Hall, Liberty, Oral Roberts, Lamar and the always challenging in state rival Utah State is a pretty brutal schedule if I’ve ever seen one. I’m personally really excited to see what happens. Unfortunately, I’m afraid were going to go about .500 through this part of the season and need to perform well in conference to have a chance to make the NCAA tournament. It’s just a guess, but that schedule looks pretty brutal at this point in time.
12/06/2006 San Jose State
12/09/2006 @ Michigan State
12/13/2006 @ Lamar
12/16/2006 Utah State
12/22/2006 Western Oregon
12/28/2006 Liberty
12/29/2006 Oral Roberts
12/30/2006 Seton Hall
Here’s the MWC schedule. It’s not looking good for me personally since my wife is due with our second child on 1/17 and BYU is playing UNLV on 1/13. Barring a baby I’ll be enjoying a game. Otherwise, I’m glad to see Utah at the bottom of the list at home on six days rest.
01/06/2007 San Diego State
01/10/2007 TCU
01/13/2007 @ UNLV
01/16/2007 Wyoming
01/20/2007 @ Colorado State
01/24/2007 @ New Mexico
01/27/2007 Air Force
01/31/2007 @ Utah
02/03/2007 UNLV
02/06/2007 @ Wyoming
02/10/2007 @ TCU
02/14/2007 New Mexico
02/21/2007 Colorado State
02/24/2007 @ San Diego State
02/27/2007 @ Air Force
03/03/2007 Utah
03/06/2007 @ MWC Tournament in Las Vegas
Right now this team is struggling simply because they lack consistency and they are trying to find their identity but i am confident they will do well in conference. And BYU always dominates at the MC. If they can just find the confidence on the road (which seems to always be the case) this team will do big things. They gotta get in the tourney, with all these upperclassmen
I think we’re full of potential. We’ll just see if they can realize that potential. It reminds me of the great article I read about Utah football realizing that they underachieved. If they had played as good all season as they did against BYU then they would have won a lot more games.
I hope that the same doesn’t happen for BYU basketball. We’ve got the talent even if I see some real question marks in a few key spots like point guard.