Yesterday, the Big East schedule was revealed, and with that reveal came the release of the full Georgetown schedule.
Every season, one high-major squad gets raked over the preseason coals by college basketball’s writers and die-hard fans for soft scheduling (in the years with no obvious laggard, it’s Syracuse).
This season, Rutgers and Georgetown get online demerits for fluffily padding their win totals.
But why?
On one hand, playing a whole set of home “buy” games (where an easy-to-beat opponent comes for a large check) seems like the antithesis of hard competition, which we assume college sports to be centered around.