MBB announces home&home with Cincinnati
Cincinnati & Michigan will play a home & home series starting 12/17/16 in Cincinnati, sources told @CBSSports. Return game in AA in 2017.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) January 14, 2016
January 14th, 2016 at 4:03 PM ^
solid non-con home and home
January 14th, 2016 at 4:32 PM ^
Slight side track here, but is the phrase - a) "home and home", or b) "home and away"? I have heard both used, not sure if there is any difference much like "fat chance" and "slim chance".
And how do they get those big ships into those bottles???
January 14th, 2016 at 4:39 PM ^
Michigan has a home and away with Cincinnati, since the focus is on Michigan.
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January 14th, 2016 at 6:00 PM ^
They assemble the pieces of the boat inside the bottle.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:46 PM ^
"Home and home" refers to the fact that Michigan gets a home game, and Cincinnati gets a home game. Thus, a "home and home."
January 14th, 2016 at 5:34 PM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 5:45 PM ^
Departed 1/15/2016
January 14th, 2016 at 4:06 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 4:07 PM ^
Yeah, I thought that when the football game was announced for 2017 that they said they were working on a b-ball series as well.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:10 PM ^
i'm fine with it, after all huggins is not their.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:16 PM ^
Huggins is not their...... coach anymore?
Good point.
January 14th, 2016 at 5:29 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 4:11 PM ^
Cool, but I want better home and home games in football.
January 14th, 2016 at 6:43 PM ^
Me too, but things do look up considerably after 2016 and 2017. Arkansas, Washington, VA Tech, UCLA, Oklahoma, and Texas all come up between now and 2026. There's a P-5 game either home or away on the schedule every year, and in almost every year there's room to add a second one. We're also scheduling a more diverse set of mid-majors. I think it'd be fair to say that things are trending in the right direction.
January 14th, 2016 at 8:52 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 4:12 PM ^
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
January 14th, 2016 at 4:16 PM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 4:24 PM ^
We also play them in football in 2017.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
Nice matchup. These are the types of H&H games UM should be setting up, not playing a bunch of tomato cans.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:42 PM ^
If a lazy fly ball in baseball is a "can of corn", why is an easy opponent called a "tomato can"?
January 14th, 2016 at 10:56 PM ^
Cans of corn (and cans of other vegetables) were stored on the top shelf in the dry goods store. When you wanted one, the clerk wouldn't bother to get a ladder; instead he would stand below the shelf, tip the can off the shelf with a broom handle, and catch it. So when an outfielder is standing still waiting for a fly ball to drop into his glove, it's a can of corn.
Tomato can is from boxing. People use empty tomato cans for target practice; hit the can one time and it falls over. A boxer who falls over after being hit once is a tomato can. The slang term for an unchallenging opponent then got extended into other sports.
January 14th, 2016 at 11:15 PM ^
Speculating that lousy fighters are full tomato cans who leak red juice after being pounded for a few minutes. That would answer "But why a tomato can?"
January 14th, 2016 at 4:42 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 5:22 PM ^
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January 16th, 2016 at 10:01 PM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 6:40 PM ^
is going to schedule some tomato cans. The question is what level of tomato can? UM pretty much went to the bottom of the can with some of the teams this year. Ideally, you want the weakest teams on the non-conference slate to be around 200 rpi/kenpom. These should still be relatively easy W's while at the same time not killing your SOS, particularly the non-conference SOS.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:37 PM ^
Nice. I'll make the trip up from Lexington.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:43 PM ^
This is very odd because Cincinnati will not be playing in their arena next season as it is getting renovated. I guess UC is trying to get some big home games to keep their season ticket holder base as they will most likely be playing downtown or there are even rumors about playing at Xavier but that's unlikely.
January 14th, 2016 at 5:26 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 4:41 PM ^
It seems like the non-conference schedule this year was very front-heavy too this time around, so having a game like this in December should hopefully work towards balancing that out a little bit. Like some have said, these are really the sorts of games we should be scheduling anyway, or at least as much as possible.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 5:54 PM ^
we're talking about basketball, right?
I think this is cool because Ohio State always gets a hard time for not playing home-and-homes with Cincy and other Ohio schools.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Bearcats_men%27s_basketball
With over 1700 wins, the Bearcats are one of the 20 most winningest basketball programs of all-time. The school's merits include two national titles, six Final Fours, and 29 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament appearances. Cincinnati has appeared in the last five NCAA Tournaments, and 19 of the last 24, with an all-time tournament record of 44–28. 30 All-Americans have played for the Bearcats.
January 14th, 2016 at 8:13 PM ^
Cincinnati put out these t-shirts in 2008-2009 and Ohio State fans acted like Cincinnati had blasphemed God himself. Their outrage was gloriously hilarious.
http://www.gobearcats.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102309aaa.html
January 14th, 2016 at 8:06 PM ^
I'm not sure what you expect?
No offense, but that's not unequivalent to a Bearcats fan saying Michigan is a "non-credible" OOC foe for Cincinnati. After all, UC has been in the NCAA 5-straight years, and now they're playing someone OOC who didn't even make the NIT last year?
January 14th, 2016 at 5:07 PM ^
El Jeffe will be there in Cincy. I have room on my couch if you want to come in for the game.
January 14th, 2016 at 5:14 PM ^
Selfish, I know. But would be awesome seeing U of M in the 5,000 seat Smith Center
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January 14th, 2016 at 5:29 PM ^
i'd like to see a Home and Home with Marquette and stick it to WOJO
January 14th, 2016 at 6:36 PM ^
Hey, if they're going for games in places where MGoBlog posters live, help ol' Clarence Boddicker out and schedule a home and home with the University of Vermont Catamounts.
January 14th, 2016 at 5:46 PM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 5:48 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 5:48 PM ^
season about who we should play in non conference. UC qualifies. I like their idea that UM should ALWAYS play Oakland and U of Detroit instead of wtf opponents like Bryant, Delaware State, Northern Kentucky and Houston Baptist(?!??!). They played EMU last year (sorry) but no MAC teams this season; should go back to that as well: at least one of the Michigan directionals or Toledo. And I also didn't mind somebody more regional like Bradley, or a Valparaiso.
It just seems like some of those bottom-feeder opponents were chosen at random from a barrel full of scraps of paper with 300 "D1 schools that play basketball."
January 14th, 2016 at 6:47 PM ^
Ooh. Should be right after finals week and only a four hour drive. Maybe it'll even be an afternoon game so I can do the whole thing in one day. Sounds fun.
January 14th, 2016 at 7:42 PM ^
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January 14th, 2016 at 8:18 PM ^