Big Ten in DC and MSG? Lmao! Makes sense because 3 out of 14 teams are from the east coast. Bring it back to Indy or Chicago where it belongs. Delaney is a joke.
Seemingly never ending Iowa MBB thread (still going.....)
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Big Ten in DC and MSG? Lmao! Makes sense because 3 out of 14 teams are from the east coast. Bring it back to Indy or Chicago where it belongs. Delaney is a joke.
My guess is because high major conferences don't want to play basketball on Highschool basketball night. You want recruits to be able to come to your games. Now that High School basketball is on a break before playoffs or starting up on Saturday like Minnesota. Friday opens up a day where you might have viewers that normally went to the local HS for a game on Friday.
And it has been on the schedule for Friday since at least 09/01/2016 so its not like ESPN targeted this game within the last 2 weeks to get it on its schedule. Was just curious.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/sport...cle_31a0a040-7077-11e6-b0f4-534fa1407d1e.html
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/sport...cle_31a0a040-7077-11e6-b0f4-534fa1407d1e.html
Why does the Big 10 play on Sunday nights? Nobody watches those games when theyve already been watching basketball all weekend. By Sunday night Im ready for The Walking Dead and 60 minutes, not some showdown between Rutgers and Nebraska.
I originally put pro teams but there is still NBA on I figured that was incorrect. Granted I don't watch the NFL so I forgot they don't play on Friday. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's great, good for ISU, I'll probably tune in for a bit. I'm just saying there aren't many people, outside of ISU and WVU fans, who give a **** about this game. There will probably be way more people watching the NBA game on ESPN. Same thing goes for Sunday, that 2:30 NBA game on ABC has a ton more people watching it than a MSU vs. Indiana on CBS around the same time.
Nobody watches those games unless you're a fan of one of them. I don't watch them. I'm normally settled into flicks and navigating through a hangover.
I live in Iowa, I have a rooting interest as I want ISU to be the 2 seed, I don't watch the NBA, and this Friday night I probably won't be doing anything from 6-8. Now, if a good movie is on TV at that time, that may change things.
Exactly my point, its dumb. The Big 10 is dumb for scheduling all these Sunday games, competing against NFL playoffs, etc, just because they want to make sure all the crappy bottom teams get a TV slot.
Lots of people don't watch the NBA and love college basketball. You get a chance to watch two top 25 teams battle it out on a Friday night, talk about getting blessed by ESPN. Going to be crazy, unfortunately I think we look decent but still lose while everyone across America is tuned in to watch THE Iowa State University Cyclones
I hate when Iowa plays on Sundays, which was a lot of the time. I wish they would play on Saturdays, makes it more fun.
The only time Big 10 teams should be playing on Sunday is a CBS game between 2 top teams. This BTN crap between Penn State and Rutgers on Sunday afternoons is getting old.
Why is it getting old? Nobody is watching it unless for some reason you only watch BTN 24/7
I thought the NFL had the Sunday night spot locked down from September-January but that doesn't stop the Big Ten from polluting the airwaves with their "basketball" at that time.
This is a statement I agree with. When I heard the BiG tourney was in DC I thought WTF? Maryland fans will like it but will Rutgers & PSU fans show up. Definitely makes it much harder for most of the good BB schools fan bases to make the tourney.
I don't remember how long KC has the B12 tourney for.
Because they need to move all the crap games back to Saturday and keep the game of the week on Sunday like they used to do for 30 years before this joke BTN came around and ruined tradition.
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