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Another late one on Saturday. It'll be at least around 9:40pm depending on when the Kansas-Seton Hall game ends. Get a nap in if you're hitting the green beer early.
Michigan-Houston will be the late game again Saturday. 30 minutes after Kansas-Seton Hall at 7:10 pm ET.
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) March 16, 2018
West coast is the best coast.
great for us on the west coast. Hopefully the team doesn't sleep walk through Saturday's game though.
go blue
For being a popular draw for a national feed. Something about having a huge living alumni base. To paraphrase: MSU draws in Detroit, UM draws nationwide.
For being a popular draw for a national feed. Something about having a huge living alumni base. To paraphrase: MSU draws in Detroit, UM draws nationwide.
My habit of pushing buttons repeatedly when nothing happens has failed me again
I know, short windows of time and everything, but would it kill them to schedule games at a reasonable hour?
/getoffmylawn
I mean to be fair here, yesterday's game was the second best slot we could have. I'd rather stay up late than have at 12 or 2 or 4 and have to leave work for two hours.
They do realize that Michigan isn't actually in the west, right?
Leaders and best
Ourselves to blame.
Go Blue.
Beat Man Bun.
please.
The guy had a 50% usage in today's game. That's nuts. He took 25 shot attempts from the field, 15 free throws, 1 offensive rebound, and had a 0:4 assist to turnover ratio. In a 71 possession game, he accounted for about 35-36 of them. That's just... I don't even know, man.
The guy scored 39 points -- and they barely won the game.
If Michigan can figure out a way to stop him -- easier said than done -- Saturday's game should be much less of a toss-up than KenPom predicts.
I think Michigan might be a little better defensively than SDSU was. I see Z all but shutting him down, and the rest of the team obliterating thier other 4 players. Manbun will see some traps and doubles to help Z, and he'll have nowhere to go. He'll probably still score 20, but I just can't see the rest of his team hurting anything.
Hopefully Z doesn't pick up two cheap fouls in the first four mins again..
He had success against Cincy too, the #2 defense on kenpom. The dude gets his points and hits tough shots. Thats his game. Maybe we get lucky and this is the game he misses tough shots but people thinking Z will just shut him down are being naive
Pretty sure you're wrong here, I read earlier that he went 13/50 in 3 games against Cincinnati this year.
At least the team should be used to the time change by then
Perfect game time honestly. Get wasted and pass out by 2 pm on St. Patty's...wake up just in time for the game
"9:40"
It's DST, so spring forward an hour. /s
They said yesterday's game was a 9:50 start. DIdn't start till 10:30. That sucked. My wife, who hates basketball, but agreed to watch the game was really annoyed. ...and so was I. CBS/TBS/NCAA sucks.
The same thing happened to me as well, she still wasn't happy this morning but at least we won!! LOL Go Blue Saturday!
And Michigan State plays at 7:10pm in Detroit. I hope they can adjust to playing 10 minutes later than their usual tip time -- especially with the grueling travel involved.
Who cares? We've played Sparty for the last time this year. They will just have to live with the spanking they got in the BTT. No way in hell they make it to San Antonio to face down Beilein again...
Izzo has been having a hard week, don'tcha know....
Anyone know if we’ll get the same refs as tonight? They seemed determined to call everything from the tip. Then, after calling 18 fouls in the first 8 minutes, it was like they realized it was bad and totally changed the way they were calling the game. The second half was equally inconsistent.
My main concern is another game where Z is on the bench for 25 minutes. We need him for 35+ against man bun.
well those same refs called all those fouls against Houston. If Houston tries to play super aggressive steal happy defense, I would prefer refs that actually call all those reach in fouls
No they didn't. They don't have crews work back-to-back games. Refereeing is more of a workout than you might think. :)
The four games today got four entirely separate crews. Some of them may already have flown out to work somewhere else tomorrow; some others may be flying in tomorrow after working games somewhere else.
Last year, one of the three officials in the Michigan / Louisville game on Sunday had worked in Indianapolis on Friday (Lamar Simpson worked Kentucky vs. Northern Kentucky). I'd expect we'll likely get an entirely different crew than worked either of today's late games.
Nope. Completely different crews in yesterday's two games. I have no idea who will officiate that game on Saturday, but hopefully this is like the Iowa to not-Iowa games in the BTT and people got their dumb fouls out of their system early.
is you get three guys who never officiate with each other before from different conferences with different points of officiating emphasis, and so while the dominant whistle is calling every bump on the baseline or blocks when guys are going after loose balls, other guys are letting it go and then calling in the act shots when guys have clearly not raised their arms to shoot.
This issue was evident throughout the day yesterday in almost every game. Part of the problem is the fact that these guys are all trying to impress evaluators on-site for their next assignment.
So, you get Big Ten officials sprinkled in with other conference whistles and it takes a half before they finally figure out teams and how to call their games. Beilein never gets animated and yet he was super-pissed after three immediate fouls were called on Michigan after a lousy tip that led to a scrum on the floor and a walk called on Moe. By the way, Terry Weimer, who called the Big Ten championship game, was the extra ref at the scorer's table.
Yaklich eats man buns for every meal. Z and MAAR will feast on that man and his hair.
Idk if this is better or worse than the finger nails Z eats. Odd dietary habits from the Michigan Basketball team...
They’re screwing us man! I think that was a huge part in yesterday’s shitty game. Or this mornings shitty game... I’m tired
For everyone involved. Hopefuuly the team can get through this and I can find yime for a nap today.
Traveling to Maine for skiing all day on Saturday so at least I can catch the game. Not loving these late night games though
I imagine it’s done this way to give every team a roughly equal amount of rest time between games. If they were put in the 12pm Saturday slot and lost big (or lost at all), I’m sure a lot of people would complain about how they didn’t get as much rest time as other teams.
They could have pushed the start times up by 60-70 minutes in that arena.
So you're saying approx. 10:35 tip... Great.
so tip off wont be until after 10pm again and game wont be over until 12:30am, that pisses me off, just like last night houston and san diego st was before M, should have been other way around for people viewing in the actual schools time zone.
state gets prime time friday and gurantee will be 1 or 4 pm sunday which again great time. But state always gets shafted on national television....per state fans
My guess is CBS/TBS didn't want to lose that coveted Montana Mountain Time prime-time audience.
Is anyone here at Wichita? Down for an Mgomeetup today to watch hoops? Me and my buddy are here and the place seems kinda sleepy compared to other host towns. Email me at [email protected].
I don't mind the late tip since it's a Saturday and I have Monday off!
Can we please stop wearing the white uniforms? It's time to wear maize for the rest of the tournament! Or Blue!
Hair! A side by side comparison... :) pic.twitter.com/MwV6kReCTK
— TheMan DownTheHall (@TMDTH1) March 16, 2018
9:40 will probably translate to 10:30 again.
Just pray that Kansas/Seton Hall doesn't go to overtime otherwise our game probably won't start until 11.
For the team and they will be ready to go tomorrow night. Hoping last night was like the Iowa game in the big ten tournament, and now they will breeze through the rest of this tourney.
Great, I'll be in Europe and the game will probably tip after 2:00am CET. Oh well, I guess I'm missing this game.
Love this. I was laughing to myself (wife was next to me sleeping) when they focused on his floppy lips.
Hope we spend all day practicing free throws. Houston fouls a ton and SDSU lost because of how many points they left on the free throw line.
Since the game is so late they can practice free throws all day today and all day tomorrow.!
