Doesn't appear at this time that we would be a good fit for the Maui Invitational - all big schools and elite mid-majors. However, they do have "mainland teams" that participate in the Maui Invitational, but don't go to Hawaii. Wofford did this a few years ago. That could be a good option ... guessing you play a bigger school before the Hawaii portion begins. Similar to what we did with Villanova this year.affirm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:37 pmI do not know whether the participating schools pay for all, part, or none of their cost to go. The schools closest to us (I already mentioned CCU and CofC) appears to be Gardner-Webb, Clemson, Georgia, USC, and Georgia Tech. At least one of the tournaments is a conference challenge tournament, MAAC vs. ASUN (Monmouth, Iona, Stetson, and Kennesaw State). It appears that none of the Power 5 Conference Challenges that occur within the season are not included in the list - they are "just games", not tournaments. I do not know what the downside would be for Furman to participate - maybe cost, maybe eliminating a chance to play some big name school for a big payoff, etc. (One of the 26 events listed is a PAC-12 game that will take place somewhere in China, involving Arizona State and Colorado.) I wonder when any of the SoCon teams, including Furman, have been involved in such tournament. I wonder that because I see no SoCon Teams participating this year in any that have been announced. I also wonder what the role is (if any) of the SoCon Commissioner (which is apparently a vacant position) is in getting conference teams into these tournaments. This is not a burning issue as far as I am concerned, but it is relevant to the topic of 2019-2020 basketball schedule.
Here's an interesting website. https://www.bloggingthebracket.com/2018 ... anksgiving
The Myrtle Beach tourney would have been awesome to get into. Charleston one would be as well. Maybe Coastal and Charleston don't want Furman or another in-state school. Wouldn't surprise me. The more I look down the list there are a ton of tournaments that I think we would be a good fit for, where we would get multiple games against bigger schools. Hopefully these options are being explored.
