B1G Announces Basketball Schedule...Uggghhhhh
Michigan's single games are at Ohio, at Illinois and home to Northwestern and PSU. That's about as crappy as it gets and has to be a disdvantage compared to the other top teams.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2013/05/michigan_basketball_t…
This is only going to get worse once Maryland and Fucking Rutgers join and I'm not sure what the solution is. The bright side is that we now seem to be on a path where we have more to play for than just a B1G title.
Penn State should be pretty decent this year. I think they'll make the tournament if they stay healthy
OSU and Wisconsin get the best draws by far though.
OSU - Michigan, Northwestern, @Wisconsin, @IU
Wisconsin - OSU, MSU, @PSU, @Nebraska
What the hell, Wisconsin only played IU and Michigan once in the regular season this year, now they get one offs with OSU and MSU, both at home. Wisconsin basketball: Very easy to hate.
....Bo Ryan's deal with Satan. It's true.
I always thought Bo Ryan WAS Satan.
No way. Whenever Satan is described, he's evil, but he's a great deceiver. He's very appealing and that's how he pulls everyone in. Just like temptation - though it's bad, the enjoyment and appeal overcomes you. So Satan would have to be a very likeable person on the surface, who then leads you into evil. Someone you really love until it's too late.
Everyone hates Bo Ryan already. If he were Satan, he'd be terrible at this job.
Is Loki.
Wisconsin basketball, Wisconsin football....it never ends with the scheduling for them. In basketball, they always seem to play the best teams just once and in football, they always miss playing one of the top teams...which was a major factor in going to all those Rose Bowls.
Maybe Bo Ryan and Barry Alvarez made a deal with Satan. Either that, or GOD is giving them a break after Wisconsin's 100 years of futility in both sports before things got turned around. Take your pick.
I'm not sure about the scheduling but as far as their basketball team is concerned, all those miracle buzzer beaters are nothing but Satan.
Indiana single games include
- Ohio State (home)
- Purdue (away)
- Iowa (home)
- Minnesota (away)
You wanna talk about rivals getting screwed on the hardwood, look no further than Indiana and Purdue only playing once. While, Michigan coming to Columbus is favorable for OSU, it isn't exactly fair to Michigan fans to go without playing OSU in Ann Arbor. Lastly, its weird how the Big Ten wasn't able to compensate these two hardwood rivalries but did so for Minnesota and Wisconsin and Michigan and Michigan State. Its only going to get worst once expansion occurs...
Go BLUE!
Yea, why should Michigan and Ohio State play twice. Not like the schools hate each other and both will be top teams in the conference this season. Unreal.
There are no protected rivals in Big Ten basketball. We've had years where we only played MSU once as well.
I'm aware, I'm just saying it's shitty. Go full round-robin in my opinion.
That would mean 22 conference games - too many IMO. And you'd need four more the year after that when Rutgers and Maryland come in. You realistically have to have an unbalanced schedule. But the good news is that the regular season doesn't mean much.
Yeah, I agree. In football it makes a lot of difference because you only have 8 games, no conference tournament, and no NCAA tournament, so one more win or loss in the regular season makes a big difference.
In baslketball, if one team has a slightly easier 18-game conference slate than another, it won't make a ton of difference. Moving up or down a seed in the conference tourney makes little difference usually and losing one extra game will no affect your NCAA seed, especially if it was because of your harder SOS.
Maybe, but the East/West split would be even more lopsided in basketball, with Indiana and Maryland being good programs to go with Michigan/Ohio/MSU.
Only have to watch Craft assault our players one time this year? I'm not going to complain too much...
With the new reach in and hand check rules, Craft may no longer be at a defensive advantage. I see a lot of fouls in his future.
I'll believe it when I actually hear the whistles.
We need to schedule a non-conference game against the Bucks. They've got to visit Crisler.
Well, that's not great but it's not necessarily a horrible draw. Northwestern and PSU might be decent next year, while Illinois is kind of a wild card - who knows what to expect. The single-play at OSU is the main disadvantage.
Worst conference schedule ever - UM should play MSU, Indiana and OSU twice every year. Then the one-off games can rotate every year.
Really? No home and home with illinois or ohio? Two rivals?
So that means the schedule will look like this -
You really consider Illinois a rival?
1988-89 defines it for me.
I take it you live in Illinois? I know they've never gotten over that game.
Nope I live in Michigan.
My reasons-
- Started in 1988-89 when both teams were at their best. illinois took the season series in dominating fashion and destroyed Michigan on senior day.
- 1989 Final Four officially kicked off the rivalry
- Classless fans chanting crackhouse at Jalen. In which Jalen responded in having a monster game in a 1pt OT victory.
- Only beating them twice in a 10 year period from 1996-2006 made me hate them even more. Especially when they had Bill Self who was a douche back then.
- And of course, the Orange Crush and their classless t-shirts they wear that curse Michigan.
This current 5 game winning streak has made me very happy.
I don't see how Illinois-Michigan can be defined as a rivalry in any way. In basektball we definitely have a rivalry with Michigan State. I would saw we have rivalries with Ohio State and Indiana as well. But Illinois? Illinois? No way.
The Michigan-Illinois rivalry can be defined as thus:
Illinois hates our guts. We know they wear orange and have a mascot that is offensive to Native Americans. That's about it.
The one wolverine who reciprocates Illinois hatred
That's a little extreme, no?
Who knew he existed?
...this seems to be more of the same.
The B1G schedule makers are truly a fucking joke. This isn't the NFL, you don't put a schedule together based on TV ratings.
There should be some unbiased formula based on the previous season's results. The schedule makers should just put the games on whatever particular day they choose.
If they were putting it together based on TV ratings, wouldn't all the top teams play twice? I think this is a crappy draw for us, but I don't know why you think it has anything to do with TV. You'd think the networks would want another Michigan-Ohio matchup.
Wouldn't a formula based on last season's results be biased?
Isn't most of the NFL schedule already determined before they announce? You play your division home-home (6 games), you play whatever rotation you are on for the AFC-NFC division, example this year the NFC and AFC North are partnered (4 games), then you play the each NFC team tht had the same divisional placement (3 games), and then you play another NFC division for the remaining 3.
I would assume for Big Ten basketball they have some sort of method where teams rotate who they play, sometimes we miss out on teams like OSU, and even MSU.
P nervous about Ohio after they bounced us from the tourney last year.
BTN has the list of single draws for the entire conference (HERE).
Iowa gets a pair of games against Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Wisconsin, but a single draw with Purdue, Nebraska, Penn State and Indiana. That sounds sort of brutal for them if they face the 2nd through 5th place teams in this past season's standings twice.
Huge kick in the nuts to us Chicago-based M folk who count on being able to catch a game in Evanston every year. Thanks, B1G.
I love going up to Evanston every winter for what is almost Michigan home game inside a crazy small arean.
The Big Ten was not thinking about all of the Chicago-based Michigan alumni nor should they. Somewhere in the depths of Penn State's forums, someone else is typing
Huge kick in the nuts to us Des Moines based PSU folk who count on being able to catch a game in Iowa City every year. Thanks, B1G.
Everyone can't be happy every year. I live outside of Big Ten country, consider yourself lucky Michigan teams play in your city every year
Tough road schedule, with the Big 10 imbalance plus having to go to Duke. Luckily for us, this team is going to be really, really good.
The best basketball schedule suggestion I've seen has been the one discussed on this blog. Play everyone once then divide into an upper half and lower half. Unfortunately, it's never going to happen but it would certainly make for an awesome last 2 weeks of games. Last year everyone had IU-Mich circled as the path to the B1G title; with all the top teams playing each other it would make for a crazy finish to the season.