2017 B1G Basketball schedule posted

Submitted by Gr1mlock on

I know we're all in full football mode, but a bit of news dropped today on the basketball front.  Conference dates and opponents announced.  

Home singles are Penn State, Maryland, OSU, and Purdue.

Road singles are Iowa, Minnesota, Rutgers, and Northwestern.  

All in all, could be worse, although I hate that 4 of our last 5 are on the road (albiet very winnable road games).

http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/082516aaa.html

Wolverine Devotee

August 25th, 2016 at 2:54 PM ^

2016-17 schedule

Date Opponent Time/TV
11/4 vs Armstrong State (ex) TBA
2K Sports Classic
11/11 vs Howard TBA
11/13 vs IUPUI TBA
11/17 Marquette# 9:30pm/ESPN2
11/18 Pittsburgh/SMU# TBD/ESPN2
11/23 at South Carolina TBA 
11/26 vs Mount St. Mary's TBA
B1G/ACC Challenge
11/30 vs Virginia Tech 7pm/ESPN2
12/3 vs Kennesaw State TBA
12/6 vs Texas TBA
12/10 at UCLA TBA
12/13 vs Central Arkansas 9pm/BTN
12/17 vs UMES 7pm/BTN
12/22 vs Furman 7pm/BTN
1/1 at Iowa* TBA
1/4 vs Penn State* TBA
1/7 vs Maryland* TBA
1/11 at Illinois* TBA
1/14 vs Nebraska* TBA
1/17 at Wisconsin* TBA
1/21 vs Illinois* TBA
1/26 vs Indiana* TBA
1/29 at Michigan State* TBA
2/4 vs Ohio State* TBA
2/7 vs Michigan State* TBA
2/12 at Indiana* TBA
2/16 vs Wisconsin* TBA
2/19 at Minnesota* TBA
2/22 at Rutgers* TBA
2/25 vs Purdue* TBA
3/1 at Northwestern* TBA
3/5 at Nebraska* TBA
  B1G Tournament (Washington, D.C.)  
3/8 First Round^  
3/9 Second Round^  
3/10 Quarterfinals  
3/11 Semifinals  
3/12 Championship  

 

Wolverine Devotee

August 25th, 2016 at 2:22 PM ^

Wow. Just wow.

1/26 vs IU

1/29 at MSU

2/4 vs OSU

2/7 vs MSU

2/12 at IU

2/16 vs UW

I hate you so much, Delany.

Bando Calrissian

August 25th, 2016 at 2:40 PM ^

Do you really think someone sat down and said "OK, how can we screw Michigan?"

Scheduling is a complicated art--there's no way anyone could intentionally do that without pretty much throwing a wrench in the entire process. You want to blame someone? Blame a computer.

UM2k1

August 25th, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^

I must have missed when they announced the the BTT is being held in DC.  That is pretty ridiculous.  Who (besides Jim Delany) thought it was a good idea to have the BTT at a site that all but 3 schools are over 400 miles from, and MInn and Neb are both over 1,100 miles from.  This makes it impossible for fans to travel to the event!

UM2k1

August 25th, 2016 at 2:35 PM ^

Must be.  

 

If you make a polygon outlining the footprint of the B1G school, the centroid is somewhere between Indy and Chicago, so they should alternate those 2 sites (oh, wait, they did that, and it worked great, and now the f'd it up).  2 of the 3 schools within 400 miles are Rutgers and Maryland, both of whom are not REALLY in the B1G, so they shouldn't count.  The 3rd is PSU, who deserves no consideration, so in reality, they moved their premier BB games a full day drive from all of the fans.

tlo2485

August 25th, 2016 at 2:49 PM ^

I like it, but only less often than it's played in Chicago or Indy. There are tons of B1G alums on the east coast who will take advantage of this opportunity to see their teams. Michigan alone nearly sells out the Barclays in Brooklyn each holiday season. One time in DC and NY each per decade I see as a great way to mix things up. I guess we will see how attendance is soon enough and be able to judge it's success.

Speaking for Michigan only, we would probably gain a home court advantage compared to other schools outside of Maryland.

tommya14

August 25th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^

Why should Indiana/Purdue or NW/Wiscy/Illinois fans have an easy trip every year.  Back to back years in DC and NYC don't make much sense to me though. And if Football remains in Indy then that is another reason why basketball should rotate elsewhere at least once every so many years.  If MSG had good attendance for UM and PSU I imagine the basketball tournament will do fine outside of Indy and Chicago.

BursleyHall82

August 25th, 2016 at 2:34 PM ^

On the three weekends, leading up to National Signing Day (Feb. 1), we have two Saturday home games - Jan. 14 vs. Nebraska and Jan. 21 vs. Illinois. (On Saturday, Jan. 29, we're at MSU).

This is good. It gives Harbaugh two quality weekends leading up to NSD to take recruits to a basketball game. As I recall, this was an issue last season, right?

CorkyCole

August 25th, 2016 at 3:02 PM ^

Sparty is hoping to not have excuses about injuries since they hate having good excuses about a loss. They're really trying for a "no excuse" season in 2017, but we all know how hard it is to not find excuses over the course of a full conference schedule.

Therefore, the strategy they discussed was to plan both games within as short of a span as possible in hopes that they catch a stretch where they are injury free. The chances of them being injury free over two games in a span of 10 days seem to be a lot higher than if you separate those games over 20+ days. Just a heck of an amount of risk there.

They presented their request to Delany, who felt sorry for Izzo and all the injuries he has had over the course of his career. Tears were shed, and Delany complied.

Doesn't make sense to me either.

tlo2485

August 25th, 2016 at 2:44 PM ^

We have to play the likely top 3 ranked teams twice (MSU, WIS, IU). On the other hand, our road-only games are about as easy as it gets, which is a positive considering how hard B1G road wins are. Not having to travel to MD or PUR is a positive as well, and also OSU because even if they aren't good it will be a game they'd get up for in Columbus.

Overall, this schedule is tilted towards what I imagine to be the difficult end of B1G schedules. Like last year, there will be little room for error non-conference against the dreds we have scheduled because we are set up to be handicapped once again RPI-wise heading into the B1G gauntlet.

trueblueintexas

August 25th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^

This is a pleasant little stretch:

Thu., Jan. 26 vs.Indiana Indiana * Crisler Center TBA GT MORE
Sun., Jan. 29 atMichigan State Michigan State * East Lansing, Mich. TBA   MORE
Sat., Feb. 4 vs.Ohio State Ohio State * Crisler Center TBA GT MORE
Tue., Feb. 7 vs.Michigan State Michigan State * Crisler Center TBA GT MORE
Sun., Feb. 12 atIndiana Indiana * Bloomington, Ind. TBA   MORE
Thu., Feb. 16 vs.Wisconsin Wisconsin * Crisler Center TBA GT MORE

 

buddha

August 25th, 2016 at 4:05 PM ^

That is a rough stretch at the end of the season. Let's hope we are not considered a "bubble" team at that point because things could get bleak in February with those road games (and home).