2023-24 Schedules

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WUPHF

#45
June 09, 2023, 05:17:21 PM
Quote from: Kuiper on June 09, 2023, 04:45:00 PM
If either or both of Willamette and Emory run through those gauntlets unscathed, they should be nationally ranked when their conference seasons start.

Emory finished last season at the bottom of the UAA along with Brandeis.  Gomez is gone.  Hard to say how the Eagles will fare in 2023.

Kuiper

#46
June 10, 2023, 12:00:28 PM
Rochester

https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023

Stevens makes the trek up to Rochester this year, which is an upgrade from Rochester's out of region non-conference opponents last year.

Kuiper

#49
June 13, 2023, 12:05:02 PM
Landmark (partial with some previously posted)

Susquehanna

https://suriverhawks.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

Goucher

https://athletics.goucher.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule

Lycoming

https://lycomingathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

Some challenging non-conference games with Johns Hopkins, Mary Washington, Rutgers-Newark, and Messiah

Moravaian

https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule

Wilkes

https://gowilkesu.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule


Kuiper

#50
June 14, 2023, 01:38:50 PM
I'm at the point where I'm generally checking specific schools where I have a particular interest to see if their 2023 schedules are out yet, rather than checking indiscriminately for any 2023 schedules.

In this case, I was curious about Western Connecticut.  They got a lot of sympathy on the board for not being selected for the NCAA tournament last fall, while going undefeated. At the same time, while you can only play the teams in front of you and you have no control of your conference opponents, they played a lot of pretty weak teams out-of-conference.  So, I wanted to see if their experience with the NCAA selection process led them to change their scheduling (while acknowledging that some games are home and aways scheduled years earlier and that this only matters as a hedge against not winning your conference bid).

Under the 2023 schedule, it does appear that Western Connecticut, on balance, made an effort to upgrade their non-conference opponents:

https://westconnathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023

Gone are the following:

Eastern Nazarene (7-7-5)
Ramapo (6-7-4)
Westfield State (3-10-5)
Pratt (1-12-3)

New are the following:

SUNY Potsdam (5-8-4)
Wesleyan (8-5-3)
Williams (10-2-11 and 2d in NCAA Tourney)

(They also continue to play non-conference opponents with pretty good records last year and/or from stronger conferences like Vassar, Lehman, Trinity, Merchant Marine, Drew etc)

SUNY Potsdam was probably a tougher opponent than their record last year, but call it a push with Ramapo and Eastern Nazarene.  Replacing Westfield State and Pratt with Wesleyan and Williams, though, are clear upgrades.  It will be interesting to see how they fare this year.

D3fense

#51
June 14, 2023, 11:02:44 PM
I believe that one of wcsu's defenders was on the Newtown Ct team that won The Soccer Tournament last week!

Kuiper

#52
June 15, 2023, 05:25:15 PM Last Edit: June 15, 2023, 06:00:07 PM by Kuiper
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

https://www.cmsathletics.org/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule

Coach Cartee isn't shying away from a challenge, making a difficult trip to Salem, Oregon to start the season with games against Willamette and Pacific Lutheran.  That might make up for the SCIAC schedule, which has them playing Redlands, Occidental, and Cal Lutheran only once each, while playing Whitter and Cal Tech twice (although Cal Tech is improving - they ended last season tying conference champion Chapman and beating La Verne, which is tied for their longest unbeaten streak since at least 2006).  Watch out for the second-to-last game of the regular season, when Pomona-Pitzer travels across the road (literally) to play CMS at 7:30 pm on a Wednesday night in the Sixth Street Rivalry.  That might get the students out of the library if the teams are both still in contention for the conference tournament.  The rivalry took a year off in 2022 because of CMS' suspension.

Southwestern

https://www.southwesternpirates.com/sports/m-soccer/2023-24/schedule

Hosting Willamette, Elmhurst (at Trinity), and Whitman from the Northwest Conference to start September will be a good measuring stick for the team.  Also, I think this must be a typographical error that may get fixed before anyone reads this post, but Southwestern only identifies 5 games as SCAC conference games on its schedule and plays, but doesn't identify as conference games, games against 3 other SCAC opponents:  Colorado College, St. Thomas, Schreiner.  I guess that would be the literal definition of a school that has one foot out the conference door since they are scheduled to leave the SCAC for the Southern Athletic Association in Fall 2025!

SKUD

#54
June 28, 2023, 07:30:31 PM
64 DAYS!
;)

WUPHF

#55
June 30, 2023, 12:58:35 PM
Washington University schedule
https://washubears.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule


Webster University
https://websterathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

The Gorlocks will play every non-conference game at home except for a trip to Grinnell.  The Gorlocks should be the favorites to repeat as SLIAC regular season champions.

Ejay

#57
June 30, 2023, 07:24:48 PM

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Here's Franklin & Marshall.  The Stevens game to open the season over Labor Day weekend should be a good gauge for both teams.

https://godiplomats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

agreed, but the rest of their non-conference schedule is average.

SierraFD3soccer

#58
July 05, 2023, 02:44:30 PM
Quote from: Ejay on June 30, 2023, 07:24:48 PM

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Here's Franklin & Marshall.  The Stevens game to open the season over Labor Day weekend should be a good gauge for both teams.

https://godiplomats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule



agreed, but the rest of their non-conference schedule is average.

True, but the way the berths into the NCAA tournament line up, you pretty much have to concentrate on playing regional teams in order to get in.

FYI, the following non-conference scheduled teams either made the NCAAs or lost in their league finals - Stevens, Rosemont, Penn State-Harrisburg and Elizabethtown.  That is 4 out of the 7 non-conference teams. So I would say not the hardest and not soft, but reasonably respectable out of conference schedule.

Kuiper

#59
July 06, 2023, 07:36:01 PM
Cal Tech

https://gocaltech.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

The Cal Tech Beavers might actually have a chance to go 4-0 to start the season, which might be a first .... in the history of the program (or of any Cal Tech sports team?).  They beat Bethesda 6-3 to start the season last year, Lewis & Clark is only in their second year of the program and went 0-7 in all of their official games last season, Linfield is coming off a 5-13-1 season in which they lost to La Verne 5-2, a team Cal Tech beat TWICE, and Life Pacific went 1-16 last year (Hope Int'l seems a bridge too far as they went 11-3-4 last year in NAIA).  I'm not predicting it will happen, but I'm sure one of the Cal Tech players will put some probability calculations on the white board in the locker room to get the players pumped up.  Who (other than the opposing teams and their fans) isn't rooting for that?
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