Schedule is Front Loaded - and Back Loaded

[Sweetest OU Girl]

Our next game (and 1st conference game) is coming next Wednesday. I hope we don't overlook it by thinking about our second game - Baylor. I expect some of us have fallen into that trap.

If you look you will see that we have been assigned a schedule challenge the league has stated is unfortunate and they try to keep from happening. We play 3 of our first 5 games on the road - and then are required to do the same (3 of 5 on the road) at the end of the year.

Again the league has said that is unfair to teams so I wonder why it has been done to us - again. And our games with Baylor both fall into those windows.

As we go into our conference season what are some things - both positive and negative you see in the schedule?

 

[GoWarriors]

Playing Kansas is not a tough schedule to start on the road--they will come in last place.

 

[soonerstar]

Kansas is in Norman.

 

[Sweetest OU Girl]

Kansas was not so much the issue. But we play BU in Waco, then just a couple of days later must drive back down to Texas to play at TCU. They gave us that same schedule a couple of years ago and we lost both games. The loss to TCU was unexpected - and if you were there it was obvious we were suffering from jet (bus?) lag or a hangover from having to give all our attention to BU with not enough time to recover for the TCU game.

I worry about that start to the season. Then after a home game against K State, we go back on the road to Stillwater. With that sequence of games, it would not be hard to see even a really good team losing 3 of those and having the season in serious jeopardy right out of the gate. Almost all other teams are at home 3 of the first 5 in the conference. Road games are MUCH harder to win than home games, especially against ranked teams. Both BU losses last year were on the road. All three road games mentioned are against teams expected to be good, with 2 of them against teams listed at this point at ot near the top of the Big-12 standings.