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Fite needs to be the next IUP head coach after Bravado retires. No hurry for that though.

It's amazing that the women's program has kept Mazzante for as long as they have. With her hoops pedigree you'd think that programs would have broken down her door with job offers.

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Mazzante + Gannon = national championship. i have been saying it for a while. Somebody needs to make this happen. Wake up AD!!

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Fite needs to be the next IUP head coach after Bravado retires. No hurry for that though.

It's amazing that the women's program has kept Mazzante for as long as they have. With her hoops pedigree you'd think that programs would have broken down her door with job offers.

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Allen Payne has joined Joe's staff as an assistant. He was a three-year starter at Auburn and was most recently a grad assistant at Xavier.

I hated to see Trey Woodall leave after only one year but I think he has a very bright future in coaching. I know for all the more they can pay assistants in D2 basketball you aren't going to keep them around very long. Fite staying at IUP so long was a pretty rare exception.

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I think you're looking at the 2016-17 schedule (last year). IUP hasn't posted the non-conference schedule yet. If you change the drop box at the top you can see the 2017-18 conference schedule (only).

I saw the Urbana game for this coming year on the Urbana web site.

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Okay, the men's 2017-18 schedule is not up yet, while the women's schedule is. Okay, got it. I was wondering what was going on there.

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IUP will play Urbana on Saturday, Nov. 11 as part of the S&T Bank Tip-Off Tournament. UPJ is also attending. I haven't found the fourth team yet.

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Question:

IUP is playing against Findlay and Ferris State to open the season in Evansville. I know these games count for the regular season record.

Despite being against two likely ranked teams, being they are out of region, will they have any effect on strength of schedule when that becomes a hot topic in February?

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Slippery Rock landed 6'9" PF Richard Bivens from Florida International. He'll have one year of eligibility.

Reynolds has put together a nice class. He also signed two players from Harford -- guard Aaron McDonald (he had a ton of offers in the PSAC/MEC) and PF Micah Till. Till is a prototype Rock post player -- about 6'7" and 250 lbs. and a big-time rebounder/defender.

McDonald and Till were teammates with IUP recruit Dom Keyes at Harford.

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Interesting late player available ... Dyllon Hudson-Emory (6'7" G/F) has left Holy Family. He scored about 23 ppg last season. He has one year of eligibility.

No idea of the back story ... sounds like he'll be a nice, late snag for somebody.

That's the second major player they lost. Randy Bell, who got a lot of IUP buzz the past two seasons, also left and ended up at Lynn (FL).

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I see on the women's schedule the home game against Bowie State starts at 5:30 p.m.

That likely means the men will play afterward although that isn't announced yet. If the women were the only game that night they wouldn't start it at 5:30 p.m.


I give Bowie a lot of credit. They will play anybody at any time and routinely have one of the hardest non-conference schedules around.

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IUP women's schedule is up. First game at the Field House on Veterans Day.

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I'd have to assume the remaining non-conference games will be a little lighter in stature. Findlay, Ferris State and Fairmont State ... pretty tall order.

Bowie State, a somewhat regular guest, is already on quite a few other schedules so we may not see them this year.

I'd heard there was some talk with Wheeling Jesuit about a home and home but that may not start until the following year.


Shippensburg, my opinion, starts the year as the top PSAC team. They released their schedule. They are playing Shaw, VA Union, Wilmington, Chestnut Hill, and 'TBA' on Dec. 19. I wouldn't call it a murders' row of a non-conference schedule. Perhaps 'TBA' can beef it up a bit.

I'm actually surprised IUP got the invite to the national tip-off (or whatever it's actually named) over Ship.

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That's a pretty early start to the season and not to mention a pretty tough start to the season. Do they still plan on playing scrimmages against Pitt and some D-I heavies? Doesn't sound like it with a Nov. 2 start date.

Any word on the gals schedule?

Looks like the PSAC West slate is rather back-loaded for both IUP teams as they play Cal, Boro, UPJ, and Gannon at home in Feb. Or at least I assume it is that way for both the men and women.

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Nov. 2 - Findlay (at Evansville / 2:30 p.m.)
Nov. 3 - Ferris State (at Evansville / 12 p.m.)

Nov. 10 and Nov. 11 is the IUP Tip-Off Tournament (UPJ is again attending but obviously won't play IUP ... other teams TBA)

Nov. 18 Lock Haven
Nov. 19 Bloomsburg

Dec. 2 at West Chester
Dec. 3 at Cheyney

Dec. 9 at Mansfield

Dec. 19 Fairmont State

Dec. 30 at Gannon

Jan. 3 at UPJ

Jan. 6 Mercyhurst

Jan 8 Slippery Rock

Jan 10 East Stroudsburg

Jan 13 at Edinboro

Jan 17 at Cal

Jan 20 Clarion

Jan 24 Seton Hill

Jan 27 at Mercyhurst

Jan 31 at Slippery Rock

Feb 2 Gannon

Feb 7 UPJ

Feb 14 at Clarion

Feb 17 Cal

Feb 21 Edinboro

Feb 24 at Seton Hill


Some notes:

* Four of the best home games of the year fall over break (Fairmont, Mercyhurst, Slippery Rock and East Stroudsburg) with the Slippery Rock game strangely being on a Monday night.
* As of now (what has been announced) there are (5) Saturday night home games
* IUP doesn't play Kutztown or Shippensburg this year in crossover but picked up West Chester and ESU
* Five consecutive conference road games from Dec. 2 through Jan. 3 -- although at minimum the Fairmont home game is in between
* The non-conference schedule is, as usual, under lock and key. Fairmont posted earlier to confirm the game.