NCAA Teams Unwilling and Willing To Play the Shox

[Aargh]

The Shox were shopping H/H series starting on the road as late as August. Here's a list of NCAA tourney teams that refused a home game against the Shox if a return visit to Wichita was required:

Florida, Colorado, VCU, UCLA, Ohio State, Dayton, Syracuse, New Mexico, Stanford, Kansas, Virginia, Memphis, Cincinnati, Michigan State, North Carolina, Providence, Iowa State, UConn, St. Josephs, Villanova, Arizona, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, San Diego State, Baylor, Creighton, Oregon, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas State, Louisville, Duke, Texas, Arizona State, Michigan

Here's the list of NCAA teams willing to play the Shox:

Tulsa, North Carolin Central, Brigham Young, Saint Louis, Tennessee

I have no inside info, but I challenge any of the schools I listed as unwilling to play the Shox to say they either weren't offered a game or hadn't previously indicated WSU should never, ever again, under any circumstances contact them in any way, shape, or form for a game.

I've noticed a lot of media types who may have some bias toward schools or conferences on the "refused games" list are the strongest critics of the Shox schedule.

If the media is going to criticize WSU for not having enough "strong teams" on the schedule, why not criticize the "strong teams" for not having WSU on their schedule. They had the chance.

[KC Shox]

The Shox were shopping H/H series starting on the road into August. Here's a list of NCA teams that refused a home game against the Shox if a return visit to Wichita was required:

Florida, Colorado, VCU, UCLA, Ohio State, Dayton, Syracuse, New Mexico, Stanford, Kansas, Virginia, Memphis, Cincinnati, Michigan State, North Carolina, Providence, Iowa State, UConn, St. Josephs, Villanova, Arizona, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, San Diego State, Baylor, Creighton, Oregon, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas State, Louisville, Duke, Texas, Arizona State, Michigan

Here's the list of NCAA teams willing to play the Shox:

Tulsa, North Carolin Central, Brigham Young, Saint Louis, Tennessee

I have no inside info, but I challenge any of the schools I listed as unwilling to play the Shox to say they either weren't offered a game or hadn't previously indicated WSU should never, ever again, under any circumstances contact them in any way, shape, or form for a game.

I've noticed a lot of media types who may have some bias toward schools or conferences on the "refused games" list are the strongest critics of the Shox schedule.

Is this list 100 percent certifiable?

[Shock Top]

I am sorry, half these programs don't hold a candle to the current state of WSUs program. They would be lucky to have WSU on their schedules.

[ShockerMas]

Was BYU "willing" to play the Shockers (meaning they knew WSU was going to be in the CBE before agreeing to be in it) or did they just happen to run into them in an early season tournament?

[Downtown Shocker Brown]

Coach Larry Brown on record as sayin he is in the same boat. No one will play them at home.

Lets call him out on it.

[Steeleshocker]

Now some of those teams may not have worked out due to what was already scheduled for a team. The days available for each team may not have been the same. That may have am affect on this list.

[Flip1381]

It is interesting to see San Diego State on that list considering they are saying teams are not willing to play H/H with them.

[Flip1381]

Is this list 100 percent certifiable?

+1

[jpshocker]

There are plenty of high caliber programs out there that struggle scheduling top name teams just like WSU has. What I don't understand is why we don't band together and just focus on playing each other instead of reaching for pie-in-the-sky games like Duke, ku, UK, Florida, etc. If teams like SDSU, Gonzaga, UNLV, WSU, Big Priest schools, middle tier SEC teams etc. all just scheduled each other in non-con and didn't worry about the blue bloods wouldn't we all be just fine? Maybe I'm oversimplifying this but I'm not so sure this isn't the long-term answer. It isn't much different than what we do now but if these teams would all just develop gentleman's agreements to adhere to this philosophy of scheduling I really think it would work. In essence, we would turn our backs on the blue bloods and be doing it ourselves.

[Rlh04d]

I think there are legit reasons teams can't schedule a game. Particularly once you get into shopping games in August, where most of the schedules are already done.

I'm sure a lot of those teams were approached about games and refused. Many of them probably because they refuse to play in Wichita. But it's silly to claim the entire tourney field is ducking us.