Baylor Played 10 Teams in the Final 32, some of them multiple times, and there is a really good possibility most of them make it to the sweet sixteen. Was it too hard of a schedule?

I agree. Dumb it down a bit next year.

This is the take. If you have a veteran squad who's played together for awhile it's a different discussion. But we don't and won't. Schedule a few easier games. Don't need to be cupcakes

Didn't Drew acknowledge this at some point?

The conference games are conference games. Not sure how anyone suggests those get dumbed down, other than conference reducing the number of games from 20 to 18.

The St. Johns/Tennessee games were part of a tournament, not scheduled games against each. We are always gonna play in at least one pre-conference tournament (next year it's the money game in Vegas). You will always be at the whim of what your draw is so you could get a middle tier team or a top tier team. This year we happened to end up with two really tough games.

The Gonzaga game was the only reach, because Drew knew they were returning a deep, experienced team and we were going to be new. As he admitted himself, if he had it to do over he would have scheduled that game in December if both teams could have made it work. But he also knew it would do no damage to us in overall NET but would send our SOS through the roof.

Arkansas was essentially a completely new team, just as much as us. And, they proved to be a middle to bottom tier SEC program so who are we replacing them with? Are you wanting to go back to the SWAC schedule Drew used to be famous for? That's fine as long as you do like Tech did when it gamed the NET ratings early by ensuring they completely blew out a really easy schedule.

I guess we could have dropped the UConn game, but at some point Drew's recruiting is also helped by playing high profile games for the entire country to see. Otherwise, play a bunch of weaklings in non-conference and you have 35 people watching you on ESPN+.

Big 12 has already announced that there will be 18 games next year and going forward. I hope we get Tech or Kansas twice instead of Cincy. That one makes little sense from a regional or rivalry standpoint.