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Didn't we get an SEC team to Conway this year? Granted it was bad one, but it was still an SEC team.

That was Coach Daniel's doing by taking a home/home instead of a payout for playing at Alabama last season. I think that was the same deal that was made with Indiana. I guess the point is you can get them in the Farris Center if you're willing to give up the payday you'd get playing the one game away.

That is right, both an SEC and a Big 10 team came to Conway...normally you give up a home game to get a home and away...besides after the UAB, Bama and Indiana games, more coaches will ask just exactly why is a "BCS" conference team willing to go play at a "FCS" team home court......you want to improve your SOS with a more local game, get Missouri State on the schedule....even in a bad year they gets lots of respect and they have very few bad eyars....

Indiana was 6-24 and 1-15 in the Big Ten. Alabama was 12-19 and 2-14 in the SEC. Not as quality of wins as we once thought at season's beginning.

Maybe not, but still teams from big conferences that play big schedules. And both finished higher in the RPI than UCA last year, so pretty good schedule choices. It would've been great had they done better this year, but you can't have everything.

Now that the Sugar Bears have moved up and are getting some good mid-major attention, they should be able to get better games. While some top teams play non-D1 games, it's usually only 1 and last year no team above RPI 75 played more than 1. Pre-season tournaments can be a mixed bag, but the rest of the non-conference schedule should be as challenging as can be arranged.