{"id":1035,"date":"2017-07-18T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:48:50","slug":"mbb-2017-2018-conference-schedule-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/2017\/07\/18\/mbb-2017-2018-conference-schedule-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"MBB: 2017-2018 Conference Schedule Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 208<\/p><p>Last week, Conference USA released the Men&#8217;s Basketball schedule for all member institutions. Below is the 2017-2018 Men&#8217;s Basketball Conference USA Schedule for North Texas.<\/p>\n<pre>Date     Opponent             Location\r\n-------- -------------------- ----------------\r\n12\/28\/17 at UTEP              El Paso, TX\r\n12\/30\/17 at UTSA              San Antonio, TX\r\n01\/04\/18 vs. Charlotte        The Super Pit\r\n01\/06\/18 vs. Old Dominion     The Super Pit\r\n01\/13\/18 at Rice              Houston, TX\r\n01\/18\/18 at Louisiana Tech    Ruston, LA\r\n01\/20\/18 at Southern Miss     Hattiesburg, MS\r\n01\/25\/18 vs. Florida Atlantic The Super Pit\r\n01\/27\/18 vs. Florida Intl     The Super Pit\r\n02\/03\/18 vs. Rice             The Super Pit\r\n02\/08\/18 at UAB               Birmingham, AL\r\n02\/10\/18 at Middle Tennessee  Murfreesboro, TN\r\n02\/15\/18 vs. Western Kentucky The Super Pit\r\n02\/17\/18 vs. Marshall         The Super Pit\r\n02\/22\/18 at Florida Intl      Miami, FL\r\n02\/24\/18 at Florida Atlantic  Boca Raton, FL\r\n03\/01\/18 vs. UTSA             The Super Pit\r\n03\/03\/18 vs. UTEP             The Super Pit<\/pre>\n<h4>Thoughts<\/h4>\n<p>The Mean Green appear to have a better conference schedule draw than last season. North Texas only plays last year&#8217;s top 4 programs a total of 5 times &#8212; @Middle Tennessee; @La Tech; Old Dominion; UTEP &#8211; home and away. North Texas will play the Florida twins twice (both home and away), who finished with a combined record of 9-27 in conference play and an overall 17-44 record last season.<\/p>\n<p>Grant McCasland will be looking to right the ship after the program has not seen a winning record since Johnny Jones left the program to become the Head Coach at LSU in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The complete schedule should be announced in the next month or so. Last year the complete schedule was announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/onlyfans.cstv.com\/schools\/ntex\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/081016aab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10th<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 208Last week, Conference USA released the Men&#8217;s Basketball schedule for all member institutions. Below is the 2017-2018 Men&#8217;s Basketball Conference USA Schedule for North Texas. Date Opponent Location &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 12\/28\/17 at UTEP El Paso, TX 12\/30\/17 at UTSA San Antonio, TX 01\/04\/18 vs. Charlotte The Super Pit 01\/06\/18 vs. Old Dominion The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ebqr-gH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}