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Thursday, April 27, 2006
Scheduling woes for Bucknell
Tom Housenick of the Daily Item checks in today with a story on Bucknell's scheduling problems.

Housenick says it looks like the Bison will be true road warriors this season, since Pat Flannery is having a tough time getting anybody to agree to come to Lewisburg. Right now, Northern Iowa's Bracket Busters return trip is the Bison's only non-conference home game. There is also a possibility the Bison could host a Bracket Busters game this season (they are set to take part again).

Otherwise, with what Housenick figures to be five dates yet to be filled on the Bison non-conference slate, even road games are tough for Flannery to find.
"We're working on trying to get some people to come here, to get some home games," Flannery said. "And we thought we had some guarantee games, but now, they don't want to play us."
Of course one possible solution Bucknell might have to look at is to use some of its NCAA Tournament bounty to buy a home date or two itself.

With Bucknell's attendance, it would be able to make such offers to visitors if it actually generated much revenue from its home games. But with the free tickets for students, faculty and staff policy, there's not much of a ticket sales pot to dip into.
Published at 8:09 PM by Hoop Time.
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