The Big Ten plays a game on all but 3 days from Jan 2-Mar 9

[Sean Miller Fan]

No games on 3 Mondays (Feb 3, 10, 17). And they also make use of the late night window, something that the ACC does not do, which is surprising to me. I thought ACCN would do some tripleheaders with a 10 or 11PM start in the Bay Area.

The ACC jams all their games in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays with a couple Big Monday games sprinkled in once college football ends. This is really bad scheduling in my opinion. If you attend ACC games or have other things going on on Tue/Wed nights, you cant watch much ACC basketball. Meanwhile, the B10 is open 7 days per week.

 

[Pittnerski]

Jamie Dixon not pleased

 

[LeftCoastPanther]

Jamie Dixon not pleased

Speaking of which, I haven't seen one post about him this season. It's a struggle for Dixon at the moment after seeing TCU's record.

 

[TIGER-PAUL]

No games on 3 Mondays (Feb 3, 10, 17). And they also make use of the late night window, something that the ACC does not do, which is surprising to me. I thought ACCN would do some tripleheaders with a 10 or 11PM start in the Bay Area.

The ACC jams all their games in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays with a couple Big Monday games sprinkled in once college football ends. This is really bad scheduling in my opinion. If you attend ACC games or have other things going on on Tue/Wed nights, you cant watch much ACC basketball. Meanwhile, the B10 is open 7 days per week.

What does the SEC do?

 

[wbrpanther]

No games on 3 Mondays (Feb 3, 10, 17). And they also make use of the late night window, something that the ACC does not do, which is surprising to me. I thought ACCN would do some tripleheaders with a 10 or 11PM start in the Bay Area.

The ACC jams all their games in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays with a couple Big Monday games sprinkled in once college football ends. This is really bad scheduling in my opinion. If you attend ACC games or have other things going on on Tue/Wed nights, you cant watch much ACC basketball. Meanwhile, the B10 is open 7 days per week.

Now if that was I fact I really wanted to know, you would definitely be the guy I would come to.

 

[upj87]

No games on 3 Mondays (Feb 3, 10, 17). And they also make use of the late night window, something that the ACC does not do, which is surprising to me. I thought ACCN would do some tripleheaders with a 10 or 11PM start in the Bay Area.

The ACC jams all their games in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays with a couple Big Monday games sprinkled in once college football ends. This is really bad scheduling in my opinion. If you attend ACC games or have other things going on on Tue/Wed nights, you cant watch much ACC basketball. Meanwhile, the B10 is open 7 days per week.

fascinating...

 

[pittchagg]

What does the SEC do?

They have a very similar arrangement as the ACC does, which leads one to believe that it’s the way that ESPN wants it - ESPN likes putting hockey on Thursday and NBA on Friday, and ESPN also likes stacking a bunch of conference games on the same night so that they can slot them up and down their lineup, from flagship ESPN all the way down to the respective conference networks.

What I would like to see is a sublicensed package from ESPN to another broadcaster like TBS or CBS. I thought CBS having the Notre Dame/UNC game was interesting.

 

[bayardstreet]

They are a threat to democracy. Just kidding.

It’s only a matter of time before they steam roll everything in its path as greed has no limits. Mega universities with a billion alumni across the country who will stop at nothing. Maybe they can follow the NBA and have an in season tournament with the SEC sponsored by the Emirates or Popeyes Chicken.


In the meantime I will make sure all of my important things to do are blocked off from that all important Minnesota vs Iowa hoop game because that’s must see TV.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

They are a threat to democracy. Just kidding.

It’s only a matter of time before they steam roll everything in its path as greed has no limits. Mega universities with a billion alumni across the country who will stop at nothing. Maybe they can follow the NBA and have an in season tournament with the SEC sponsored by the Emirates or Popeyes Chicken.


In the meantime I will make sure all of my important things to do are blocked off from that all important Minnesota vs Iowa hoop game because that’s must see TV.

Well, last night, OSU @ Min was the best finish of the season. OSU down 2 with like 7 seconds. Min ball. Game over. Min misses 2 FT's then fouls OSU as player thought they were down 3. OSU makes 2 and wins in 2OT. Never would have seen that if it was during the Tue/Wed glut.

 

[FireballZ]

Well, last night, OSU @ Min was the best finish of the season. OSU down 2 with like 7 seconds. Min ball. Game over. Min misses 2 FT's then fouls OSU as player thought they were down 3. OSU makes 2 and wins in 2OT. Never would have seen that if it was during the Tue/Wed glut.

I watched that game. If you thought that low quality play constituted the "finish of the season" then you have missed a lot of games, including Pitt versus one of those very teams. Minnesota is hot garbage. Although, I did find it interesting that Femi now plays for them. His FT % has gotten worse every season since leaving Pitt and is now hovering around 33%.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

They have a very similar arrangement as the ACC does, which leads one to believe that it’s the way that ESPN wants it - ESPN likes putting hockey on Thursday and NBA on Friday, and ESPN also likes stacking a bunch of conference games on the same night so that they can slot them up and down their lineup, from flagship ESPN all the way down to the respective conference networks.

What I would like to see is a sublicensed package from ESPN to another broadcaster like TBS or CBS. I thought CBS having the Notre Dame/UNC game was interesting.

CBS did UNC/ND and Duke/SMU. I wasnt aware of a sublicensed CBS package. Tried googling it but couldnt find anything. Obviously, CBS bought some games but not sure its been disclosed.

Also, I'm not asking for the ACC to get on ESPN on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. There's ACC Network. Play there. ESPN does the same thing with the SEC games. All Tue/Wed/Sat. Ratings are so low for regular season college basketball and coaches HATE Sun/Thu/Fri games that I think ESPN just allows the ACC and SEC to schedule whenever they want. So they do what the coaches want. This is where Jim Phillips should step in and tell the coaches people need to see their games. Thu/Fri/Sun are great time slots.

Should be:

Weeknights
Mon 7PM

Tuesday
ACCN 6:30
ESPN/2: 7
ACCN 8:30

Wednesday
ACCN 6:30
ESPN/2 7:00
ACCN 8:30

Thursday
ACCN 6:30
ACCN 8:30

Weekends
Friday
7PM - teams who played Monday or Tuesday

Saturday
noon
2
4
6
8
10 at Cal, Stanford, or SMU

Sunday
2 games between teams who played Thursday. Bring back ACC Sunday Night Hoops.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I watched that game. If you thought that low quality play constituted the "finish of the season" then you have missed a lot of games, including Pitt versus one of those very teams. Minnesota is hot garbage. Although, I did find it interesting that Femi now plays for them. His FT % has gotten worse every season since leaving Pitt and is now hovering around 33%.

Stupidly fouling up 2 only happens once a season. Its a cant miss blunder.

 

[FireballZ]

Stupidly fouling up 2 only happens once a season. Its a cant miss blunder.

It was certainly quite the comical blunder on a possession shortly after the OSU coach called a timeout almost mid-3pt shot attempt that was made where his team would have take the one point lead with 5 seconds left. I'll give you that it was a chaotic ending to regulation and OT1. OSU doesn't look too good, although I realize loosing Meechie has hurt them.

 

[bayardstreet]

Minnesota stinks. They fired Pitino Jr because he didn’t win enough and they have sucked ever since.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

It was certainly quite the comical blunder on a possession shortly after the OSU coach called a timeout almost mid-3pt shot attempt that was made where his team would have take the one point lead with 5 seconds left. I'll give you that it was a chaotic ending to regulation and OT1. OSU doesn't look too good, although I realize loosing Meechie has hurt them.

Yea. Im worried about OSU.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

And they also make use of the late night window, something that the ACC does not do, which is surprising to me. I thought ACCN would do some tripleheaders with a 10 or 11PM start in the Bay Area.

Hey, just out of curiosity, what's on ESPNU tomorrow night at 11:00?

And then after you check that, could you check what's on ESPN2 at 11:00 on Wednesday two weeks from now? And again the following week? And then at 10:00 on Saturday, February 1? And then on both ESPN2 and the ACC Network on Wednesday the 5th? And then on February 22? And the 26th? And Mar 1?

This is another one of those things, isn't it?

 

[FireballZ]

Yea. Im worried about OSU.

Crazy they are favored by 3.5 against Oregon tonight. I have no idea if they have injuries.

Question for you since you're interested in this stuff - why is OSU playing again tonight after having just played on Tuesday. They have no weekend game. Is this something the Big Ten is now commonly doing as a 'coast-to-coast' conference? I don't recall any of the major conferences having multiple weekday games before, especially not just two days apart.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Crazy they are favored by 3.5 against Oregon tonight. I have no idea if they have injuries.

Question for you since you're interested in this stuff - why is OSU playing again tonight after having just played on Tuesday. They have no weekend game. Is this something the Big Ten is now commonly doing as a 'coast-to-coast' conference? I don't recall any of the major conferences having multiple weekday games before, especially not just two days apart.

They played on Monday so this is no different than playing Wednesday and then Saturday.

 

[FireballZ]

They played on Monday so this is no different than playing Wednesday and then Saturday.

My bad about the MON/TUE part, but I still don't recall major conferences having teams play two weekday league games. Was wondering if this was something new and exclusive to the Big Ten since they are basically playing 7 days a week as you mentioned before.