This year's OOC schedule starts with our annual Cornfield Classic which will feature Southern University, William & Mary and Yosemite University of California.
We wanted to balance out some competitiveness in the schedule with a chance to collect wins not knowing how the conference will look and realizing we don't want to waste our last year of Allison Peach playing in the A2 or something.
What it results in, is a schedule featuring three teams in the Top 15 pre-season RPI, three ranked teams including UNLV, Notre Dame and defending Final Four team in South Dakota State (that was a game that was a carryover from the previous regime, fwiw)
In early February, we'll play a Bracketbuster game on ESPN against Ivy-League upstart Darmouth. The result? A pre-season RPI of 18.
A program that's went 87-12 over the past three years, the expectations couldn't be higher.
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#23 NW CENTRAL ILLINOIS STATE GOVERNORS Schedule
Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/05/95 Southern 0-0 103
11/12/95 Loyola-IL 0-0 329
11/17/95 Alabama 0-0 378
11/19/95 at Grambling State 0-0 219
11/23/95 Wyoming State 0-0 385
11/25/95 at #9 UNLV 0-0 9
11/27/95 at Illinois 0-0 44
12/01/95 at Brigham Young 0-0 279
12/03/95 at #5 Notre Dame 0-0 3
12/08/95 Saint Louis 0-0 240
12/10/95 at Florida State 0-0 226
12/14/95 #19 South Dakota State 0-0 15
12/20/95 Alaska Anchorage 0-0 308
12/23/95 at Central Colorado 0-0 178
12/29/95 at Northern Connecticut 0-0 377
12/30/95 Southern Michigan 0-0 382
01/05/96 Hetfield 0-0 320
01/06/96 at Wyoming Poly 0-0 384
01/12/96 at Longwood 0-0 296
01/13/96 at Newark State 0-0 153
01/19/96 Healy 0-0 380
01/20/96 Bantam 0-0 265
01/26/96 Rhinelander 0-0 297
01/27/96 at Scottsbluff State 0-0 379
02/02/96 St. Catherine 0-0 348
02/03/96 Keensberg State 0-0 169
02/07/96 at Dartmouth 0-0 26
02/09/96 at Patrick Leahy 0-0 182
02/10/96 at South Hill 0-0 289