Small college purgatory

Earlier this year, one of my Following the Compass games was in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where I saw Belmont play Southeast Missouri State in a conference game. The game was on the schedule for quite a while, as it was a conference game, and it was an easily planned trip. 

The next game was Oral Roberts' 10th game of the season. It was going to be a non-conference game between ORU and Texas-Arlington, in Texas. That's what the Golden Eagles' press release on their non conference schedule said. Then UTA issued their release, and the Golden Eagles weren't on it. 

What happened? Who knows, but I know that Oral Roberts filled their spots with a couple of schools local to Oklahoma, while UTA added California-Santa Barbara.

College basketball schedules are incredibly fluid, especially when the teams aren't from power 5 conferences. This means that the Following the Compass game, for the first time, will involve a D-II team, in this case, the University of Central Oklahoma, which I don't know much about, but I do know once featured this guy on the wrestling team. 

So the second game will be Central Oklahoma and Oral Roberts, in Tulsa instead of ORU versus Texas-Arlington, in Arlington. Of course, that is all subject to change.