B1G Basketball Schedule: No protected rivals or geography with 14 teams
B1G released their scheduling guidelines for basketball moving forward with expansion to 14 teams next year: 5 double plays and 8 single plays with no protected rivals or geography in a true rotation. The regular season conference championship could be significantly impacted by schedule fortune.
http://thegazette.com/2014/02/19/no-protected-rivals-geography-for-b1g-hoops/
February 19th, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
As in we might not play MSU some years? If so: weak
February 19th, 2014 at 6:23 PM ^
No, we just won't play them twice some years.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:51 PM ^
My guess is the first two years are single play, both at Staee.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
Everyone plays everyone once, but double-plays aren't protected.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
I wanna be mad, but we only played OSU once this year, so it's not like the system we currently use is all fine and dandy as well.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:58 PM ^
I don't understand your point. More of bad is still worse.
February 19th, 2014 at 9:01 PM ^
What exactly would you want to happen? 26 game conference schedules aren't really an option.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:27 PM ^
Michigan better play Rutgers at MSG for every road game. We should refuse to go to the bball equivalent of Rentschler Field, because that place SUCKS.
February 19th, 2014 at 11:32 PM ^
February 19th, 2014 at 6:28 PM ^
* see what I did there?
February 19th, 2014 at 9:59 PM ^
The B1G Tourney would sort out the conference champion.
The problem with that is, most coaches (including Beilein, I'm pretty sure) regard the BTT as basically a waste of time.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:32 PM ^
Have they announced wha the format of the tourney will be? Top 2 teams get byes?
February 19th, 2014 at 6:47 PM ^
So you're telling me that natural basketball rivalries like Michigan-MSU, Indiana-Purdue, or NW-Illinois are going to be played exactly as often as geographic absurdities like Nebraska-Maryland or Iowa-Rutgers? That sounds pretty dumb to me.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:36 PM ^
Mich-MSU should be a home and home every year, and Rutgers-maryland would make it work out perfect
February 19th, 2014 at 7:05 PM ^
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February 19th, 2014 at 8:57 PM ^
I'm pretty sure they are allowed. There was one year when we did that with MSU.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:42 PM ^
On years where we get play to good teams less and Rutgers more, I'll be all for it.
February 19th, 2014 at 8:57 PM ^
That is terrible. They have to go to 20 games, if not even more, if they want to have some semblance of a legitimate regular-season champion.