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UNI coach upset with scheduling that doesn’t include Drake

November 16, 1999 By admin

Northern Iowa’s tenuous playoff situation and scheduling difficulties have increased the level of frustration for Panther coach Mike Dunbar. U-N-I is 7-3 on the season heading into this week’s game against Southwest State of Minnesota, the second of two division-two opponents on the slate. Dunbar says the Panthers want to play quality competition but the success of the Gateway Conference is creating problems.Dunbar says U-N-I would like to resume a series with Drake but the Bulldogs won’t schedule the Panthers.Dunbar says U-N-I’s inablity to fill its schedule with quality opponents may cost them an at-large spot in the national playoffs.Dunbar says the solution may be to decrease the number of regular season games and expand the one-double-a playoff field to 32-teams.Drake athletic director Lynn King says they put together a schedule that is in the best interest of their program and don’t feel it is their role to help U-N-I or any other program qualify for the playoffs.King says a number of factors are considered when they put a schedule together.

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