Posted by Ernie D on Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 4:21 PM:
Arkansas women travel to Knoxville Tn tonight to play the Volunteers, thus engaging in the nation’s second longest distance (709 miles) traveled by conference foes in contiguous states. The longest is 901 miles between Oregon state and southern cal, who are in their last year as conference opponents.
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If that info wasn’t intriguing enough for you then consider that Cooter could play a game in Knoxville and be 50 miles closer than an in state game at Kansas City
-- Posted by Ernie D on Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 5:09 PM
And if those same Arkansas women, or men for that matter travel to the university of Florida, it's 1031 miles.
-- Posted by PaulS on Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 7:10 AM
New Big 10 opponents UCLA and Rutgers 2400 miles apart!
-- Posted by Outfield on Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 8:03 AM
Certainly are changes in conference alignments that are not in contiguous states.
-- Posted by Ernie D on Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 12:29 PM
Kinda destroys the whole idea of a conference, originally meant to be a close area where fans could easily travel and grow good rivalries! Now some conference opponents may not play each other for years.
-- Posted by Outfield on Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 12:34 PM
The old MIAA conference was an interesting competition among many Missouri grown players. Seems like long lost history.
-- Posted by Ernie D on Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 1:13 PM
Loved the MIAA and Houck field house. Remember Harold Robertson of Lincoln University? Led nation in DII scoring ‘77-‘78 at 34.8 PPG
-- Posted by Outfield on Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 2:49 PM
Certainly are changes in conference alignments that are not in contiguous states.
-- Posted by Ernie D on Fri, Feb 16, 2024, at 5:28 AM
If that info wasn’t intriguing enough for you then consider that Cooter could play a game in Knoxville and be 50 miles closer than an in state game at Kansas City
-- Posted by Ernie D on Fri, Feb 16, 2024, at 5:28 AM
Arkansas women travel to Knoxville Tn tonight to play the Volunteers, thus engaging in the nation’s second longest distance (709 miles) traveled by conference foes in contiguous states. The longest is 901 miles between Oregon state and southern cal, who are in their last year as conference opponents.
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