College Gameday
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Travis Hines @TravisHines21 ESPN says the announcement of its College Basketball Gameday schedule will happen "sometime in the next few weeks."
They just don't want to have us because Cyclone Alley will keep Dickie V and they will not give him back to ESPN.
Let's take a look at which games could get GameDay for Saturday, Jan. 17. I'm just picking the best game of the day in each conference.
Big 12: Kansas @ Iowa State
ACC: Duke @ Louisville (at noon)
B1G: Ohio State @ Iowa
SEC: Kentucky @ Alabama
Pac-12 / American: UConn @ Stanford (on ESPN2)
Big East: Marquette @ Xavier
Looking at these, I feel like the only other realistic option is Duke-Louisville. I think that game has a decent shot at getting picked over ours. The only thing I am curious about is that it is scheduled for noon. Are noon games usually/ever picked as Gameday sites?
Also of note is that Louisville hosts UNC two Saturdays later in a game that is scheduled for either 4:00 or 7:00pm and could be on ESPN. Gameday could instead go to Louisville for that one.
Big 12: Kansas @ Iowa State
ACC: Duke @ Louisville (at noon)
B1G: Ohio State @ Iowa
SEC: Kentucky @ Alabama
Pac-12 / American: UConn @ Stanford (on ESPN2)
Big East: Marquette @ Xavier
Looking at these, I feel like the only other realistic option is Duke-Louisville. I think that game has a decent shot at getting picked over ours. The only thing I am curious about is that it is scheduled for noon. Are noon games usually/ever picked as Gameday sites?
Also of note is that Louisville hosts UNC two Saturdays later in a game that is scheduled for either 4:00 or 7:00pm and could be on ESPN. Gameday could instead go to Louisville for that one.
find out what channel is carrying Duke game, if it is one of CBS's games - then they won't do gameday there
UCONN Stanford is pretty attractive, but if it's already scheduled for ESPN2, that means it won't be game day, right?
(I really have no idea how this works.)
(I really have no idea how this works.)
If the programming people at ESPN chose to put a game on ESPN2 rather than ESPN, why would they later give it Gameday? Doesn't make sense to me although I'm not sure if that happens or not.
I could see UConn at Stanford being a possibility. They'd have plenty of storylines to talk about...national championship team vs. program on the rise, highlights of Stanford beating KU in the tournament, both teams coached by former NBA players, Dawkins being a Coach K protege as both a player and assistant coach, so on. The ESPN guys would slobber over all those Duke connections.
Ku isu should easily be the game to pick anything else is dumb. If ohio st and iowa is GameDay im done watching espn!
They'd need a Dicky V bobblehead night or ESPN might have to foot the bill for pizza to get people to show
I'd be very surprised if it is not UL-Duke. This I'd Louisville first year in the ACC, right? Talk about hype.
It will not be UL/Duke if that game tips at Noon. The Gameday site always hosts the 8pm game on ESPN.