re: LSU basketball replaces Yale with Winthrop

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I guess you can now add Winthrop to the list.

Another article states LSU will play the first part of a home and home with Houston @ Houston this year

VCU will be a home game. I expect the Big 12/SEC game to be a home game as well. A quick analysis of the potential matchup there (using past history as a guide) seems to suggest Kansas could be the opponent...but obviously that's not been announced. (Kansas is already scheduled to play Kentucky this season. They played Tenn. at home last year, and LSU should get a home game after playing @ Texas last season. If they try to evenly match the teams based upon projections, Tenn. or LSU would probably be the potential matchup)

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Overall, we as fans should be pretty pleased with this year's schedule.

We get 3 exciting home games: VCU, which has the Wade connection and still recognition, plus with how the game went down last year; Houston, which has become a very relevant program in recent years under Sampson and has given us 2 great games; and then whomever our Big 12 opponent is, as even if we don't get KU, we should still get a top team considering our status in the SEC the last couple years and what is projected for this coming season.

And then there are some good to solid road games, especially with playing a brand name like Syracuse in NYC.

We were also supposed to have USC as a home game this year before they bitched out. I guess they were replaced by Mercer according to the Advocate article stating that's what Rothstein reported back in March.