B1G Announces Basketball Schedule...Uggghhhhh

Submitted by 93Grad on

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. 

spartanfan123

May 14th, 2013 at 6:11 PM ^

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

WolvinLA2

May 14th, 2013 at 8:32 PM ^

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.  

WolverineHistorian

May 15th, 2013 at 1:03 PM ^

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. 

E. Gordon Gee

May 14th, 2013 at 7:16 PM ^

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... 

Michael Scarn

May 14th, 2013 at 6:13 PM ^

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.  

WolvinLA2

May 14th, 2013 at 6:48 PM ^

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.  

jmblue

May 14th, 2013 at 6:18 PM ^

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.

 

 

rmic2

May 14th, 2013 at 6:20 PM ^

Worst conference schedule ever - UM should play MSU, Indiana and OSU twice every year. Then the one-off games can rotate every year.

DISCUSS Man

May 14th, 2013 at 6:28 PM ^

Really? No home and home with illinois or ohio? Two rivals?

So that means the schedule will look like this -

 

at Ohio
at Illinois
vs Northwestern
vs Penn State
vs Indiana
at Indiana
vs Iowa
at Iowa
vs State
at State
vs Minnesota
at Minnesota
vs Nebraska
at Nebraska
vs Purdue
at Purdue
vs Wisconsin 
at Wisconsin
 
Great. Wonderful. Two games with wisconsin. Because that's just what I want to watch.

DISCUSS Man

May 14th, 2013 at 7:03 PM ^

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. 

JamieH

May 15th, 2013 at 2:14 PM ^

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.

Ler

May 14th, 2013 at 7:52 PM ^

I have watched every Michigan basketball game for probably 10 years (even the games that were only streaming online) and I swear on all things holy I will not watch either game against Wisconsin next year. I've had all one man can handle with that team and until Bo Ryan leaves, I simply refuse to watch.

Mr. Yost

May 14th, 2013 at 6:30 PM ^

...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.

Trey'sTrey

May 14th, 2013 at 6:42 PM ^

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.

LSAClassOf2000

May 14th, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^

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. 

gwkrlghl

May 15th, 2013 at 12:34 PM ^

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

JayMo4

May 14th, 2013 at 7:59 PM ^

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.

goblue16

May 14th, 2013 at 8:10 PM ^

Actually playing psu once ain't so bad they should b very competitive next season plus we always seem to struggle at Bryce-Jordan

Double Wolverine

May 15th, 2013 at 1:57 AM ^

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.