COUTEAU wrote:Hope that's true for UNI.
However, perhaps there was more to UNC playing The ACES.
Terre Haute is just as close to the Indiana community of Washington as Evansville is. I think it may be as close of a difference of 3-5 miles.
Coach Williams could have just as easily scheduled those games against TREES.
Doesn't change the fact that Marcus Page was a high school teammate of Matt Bohannon at Linn-Mar High in Marion, IA.
It is a 62 minute drive (traffic being normal) from Linn-Mar High to the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, IA. How do I know that so precisely? I live less than 1 mile from LMHS and drive directly past it on my way to Cedar Falls to basketball and football (UNIDome is connected to the McLeod Center) games.
It is 48 minute drive from Linn-Mar HS to Carver Hawkeye (34 miles closer it's only 14 minutes closer) - also a drive I've done
It's 2 hours, on the nose, to Hilton Coliseum in Ames - also a drive I've done
It's 2 hours 10 minutes to the Knapp Center - also a drive I've done
So it's play a B10 school that's the closest, but that's been played in the B10/ACC challenge.
Play a MVC school with zero connection to Marcus Page
Play a B12 school that will be a top 5 preseason team with no connection to Marcus Page
OR
Play a respected UNI team that's, essentially, just as close as Iowa City, with a very tight connection to Page with a high school teammate and AAU teammates on UNI's roster...