If roundball is your blood, this is the place to discuss the Flames as they move into the Ritchie McKay era for the 2nd time.

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By jbock13
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#355329
Somebody please promise we we'll play schools that has an awesome name like Incarnate Word...
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By Sly Fox
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#355336
I'd love to see us come down here to Texas to play Incarnate Word. I am always looking for an excuse to head over tot he Alamo City (aka TexMex mecca).
By Chris Lang
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smooth, last I heard they were talking to VMI about playing a doubleheader up in Lexington that day. The holdup on the schedule is still thanks to the Coaches v. Cancer people.
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By BJWilliams
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I thought so Chris...here we are almost two months before the start of the regular season and we still dont know the schedule for that...
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By WinthropEagleFan
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CCU released their schedule today, so LU is the last one left in the Big South to have a schedule released. Hopefully the Coaches vs. Cancer people figure it out sometime before the season actually starts.
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By jcmanson
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WinthropEagleFan wrote:CCU released their schedule today, so LU is the last one left in the Big South to have a schedule released. Hopefully the Coaches vs. Cancer people figure it out sometime before the season actually starts.
haha, yeah tell me about it
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By WinthropEagleFan
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I can't figure out what the hold-up could be. They have to know all the teams that are participating by now, right? It would be really tough to fill a spot at this point with a large % of teams already having schedules released.
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By jcmanson
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Here's what I've been able to piece together from other schools' schedules:
Home opener: Randolph College
11/14/2011 @ William & Mary
11/26/2011 @Georgia State
12/1/11 @Campbell
12/3/2011 @ Coastal Carolina
12/6/2011 UNC Wilmington
12/17/2011 Hampton
12/28/2011 @ Richmond
12/31/2011 Charleston Southern
1/2/2012 Presbyterian
1/7/2012 @ UNC Asheville
1/10/12 @ VMI
1/12/12 Radford
1/14/2012 Winthrop
1/21/12 @ High Point
1/26/12 @ Winthrop
1/28/12 @ Radford
2/2/12 Gardner Webb
2/4/2012 UNC Asheville
2/9/12 @ Charleston Southern
2/11/2012 @ Presbyterian
2/14/11 VMI
2/23/2012 Coastal Carolina
2/25/2012 Campbell

Other games unconfirmed:
coaches vs cancer @ either St Johns, Miss St, Arizona, Texas A&M
18-Nov coaches vs cancer
19-Nov coaches vs cancer
20-Nov coaches vs cancer
@ Iona (return game from bracketbusters but not on their schedule?)
@George Washington (FSN visited their this summer, but not listed on their schedule?)
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By Sly Fox
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I'm hearing very good things from my perspective about 11/9. But I'll feel better when it becomes official.
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By jcmanson
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Sly Fox wrote:I'm hearing very good things from my perspective about 11/9. But I'll feel better when it becomes official.
I guess we're playing @ aTm
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By jcmanson
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Yeah, W&M is in our pod in Lynchburg for the coaches vs. cancer. We're already scheduled to go to Williamsburg and play them. So, we could play them twice this year.
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By Sly Fox
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I believe I saw where every team was guaranteed three games in the 2k event. The four hosts teams would have a home game before heading to Madison Square Garden for the championship rounds. So my understanding is that we will have at least one game at a host site whether it be against the host or another team. My friends up in Aggieland have indicated it may be the Flames coming on 11/9 for their one unannounced home game for the event.
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By WinthropEagleFan
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jcmanson wrote: @ Iona (return game from bracketbusters but not on their schedule?)
The current trend is to push the return game back a year to help balance road/home schedules...so I'm guessing that's the case here (Winthrop has done that with its last two BracketBuster opponents)...

When you do the return game in the following season, you run into this problem:

Year 1 - Home BracketBuster
Year 2 - Road return game, Road Bracketbuster
Year 3 - Home return game, Home Bracketbuster
Etc.

Under the 'wait a year' scenario:
Year 1 - Home Bracketbuster
Year 2 - Road Bracketbuster
Year 3 - Road return game (from Yr1), Home Bracketbuster
Year 4 - Home return game (from Yr2), Road Bracketbuster
Etc.

I think coaches/programs like having the better road/home balance...
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By g-webb1994
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FWIW, G-W pushed back the game we get here with Tennessee Tech from last year's bracketbuster to next season, so it is not uncommon.

Interesting we only play LU one time, but we also play PC just one time, here in the season finale, and they are only an hour or so away....at least with LU you could use travel as reasoning, but PC? :?
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By Sly Fox
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OK, this made me snicker ...
@Liberty_Hoops on Twitter wrote:Rumor is schedule is coming out this week. Cld be true, Cld b just hype for a non-home-football Saturday or just cld b a random tweet? #fb
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By jbock13
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Yeah, they're probably just having fun with the waiting and anticipating. Who wouldn't at this point?
Last edited by jbock13 on September 19th, 2011, 8:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By BJWilliams
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Im not surprised...we are what...two months away from the 24 Hours of hoops tipoff marathon and we still dont know what the rest of the Coaches vs Cancer matchups are...
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By jbock13
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It's finally here!!!!!!

http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... 3&TeamID=6

There's a link to it. I'll let you guys who know much more about the internet than me do your work from there.

And Sly, it's official, we're coming to A&M.
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By BJWilliams
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The one question that remains unanswered here is where on earth the matchup with CSU is going to be played because of course that home game falls during Liberty Winterfest
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By jbock13
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BJWilliams wrote:The one question that remains unanswered here is where on earth the matchup with CSU is going to be played because of course that home game falls during Liberty Winterfest
Can't be at VMI because it says 2PM for us, VMI plays Presby at 1PM.

I wouldn't think they can play a game early in the day, then set up for winterjam, but maybe that's the plan?
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By Sly Fox
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I REALLY needed some good news to come out of Lynchburg. I literally let out a loud "Yes!" when I saw the release sitting at Sly Jr's TKD practice.

I've had the date saved on calendar in pencil for months. It feels awesome to lock it in. This gives me time to try and recruit alumni to join my family at Reed Arena. This past year we had a big crowd from HCYA come up for the womens game.
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