2017 B1G Basketball schedule posted
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
August 25th, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
The middle of that B1G schedule is brutal. Lucky for us, 5 of the 8 are at home.
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 |
August 25th, 2016 at 2:59 PM ^
The home and home with Cincinnati was pushed back a year, correct? The plan is that we'll play @UC in 2017 and home in 2018?
August 25th, 2016 at 5:28 PM ^
I honestly have no clue what state Armstrong State is even in.
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August 25th, 2016 at 6:14 PM ^
It's in Armstrong.
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.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:30 PM ^
Those 6 games in the span of 3 weeks? That is Horseshit. Not to mention both Sparty games within 8 days. Nothing like letting a rivalry simmer
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.
August 25th, 2016 at 3:09 PM ^
Honestly they way things have gone for Michigan the last few years as far as schedules and questionable Big Ten officiating I do start to wonder if that is true.
August 25th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
Based on the treatment we've received lately, be it awful officiating across multiple sports and the terrible schedules, yeah.
Wouldn't surprise me. The commissioner is in love with the columbus folk.
August 25th, 2016 at 5:30 PM ^
All you do is bitch about how your poor Michigan always gets screwed by the refs. Newsflash, the refs don't need to screw us in hoops and I'll be shocked if we win any game other than the OSU game during that stretch.
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August 25th, 2016 at 5:34 PM ^
Oh, the "vast anti-Michigan conspiracy crossing all sports and referees take.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:25 PM ^
Holy balls that is a rough stretch in the Big Ten.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^
Every single rivalry game in a row. Literally.
4 of final 5 regular season games are on the road, too.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^
Is IU Illinois, or are they only our football rival?
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!
August 25th, 2016 at 2:31 PM ^
set by the Hockey tourney!
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.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^
What does having multiple wives have to do with any of this?
August 25th, 2016 at 2:32 PM ^
I'm sure conference stalwart Maryland likes it. SMH...
August 25th, 2016 at 2:35 PM ^
I'm pretty stoked, but I understand the frustration.
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.
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.
August 25th, 2016 at 3:10 PM ^
Hope they throw the new red wings arena in to the rotation
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August 25th, 2016 at 5:35 PM ^
BTN TOURNAMENTS SHOULD ALL STAY IN THE SAME PLACE.
Basketball: Chicago
Hockey: Minnesota/Detroit (trade off every other year)
Football: Indy
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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?
August 25th, 2016 at 2:39 PM ^
The other good thing is they are cames we can actually win.
It would be horrid for recruiting to have them come in and see us get blown out by teams, especially rivals like MSU.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:36 PM ^
Why is it necessary to play Michigan State twice within 10 days?!
Wtf.
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.
August 25th, 2016 at 3:15 PM ^
You scared bro?
August 25th, 2016 at 3:49 PM ^
It's happened before.
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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.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^
This is a pleasant little stretch:
Thu., Jan. 26 | vs. Indiana * | Crisler Center | TBA | ||
Sun., Jan. 29 | at Michigan State * | East Lansing, Mich. | TBA | ||
Sat., Feb. 4 | vs. Ohio State * | Crisler Center | TBA | ||
Tue., Feb. 7 | vs. Michigan State * | Crisler Center | TBA | ||
Sun., Feb. 12 | at Indiana * | Bloomington, Ind. | TBA | ||
Thu., Feb. 16 | vs. Wisconsin * | Crisler Center | TBA |
August 25th, 2016 at 2:54 PM ^
Spike returns to Crisler on Senior Day
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).
August 25th, 2016 at 5:15 PM ^
UM is at or near .500 in the BIG going into those final 6 games, I will be ecstatic.
August 25th, 2016 at 5:33 PM ^
Before those games? We better be way above .500
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August 25th, 2016 at 6:05 PM ^
will likely be favored in all those games; pick-em at worst