Montana Game Time is 9:50 PM Eastern Thursday
Via a friend associated with the team. I'll update with an official confirmation when I see it. In reality, the game starts 30 minutes after the 7:20 Houston game ends, so it's more like 9:50 ish. Game will be on TBS.
EDIT:
https://umhoops.com/2018/03/11/primer-ncaa-tournament-time-tv-ticket-st…
Thanks colblue
It’s official. ESPN reporting it too.
Houston is in Central time, SDSU is Pacific time, make them play the later game and besides that we should get the extra 3 hours rest for the Saturday Game because we're the top seed out of those 4 teams.
This is BS IMO!
March 12th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
Think of Houston vs SDSU as the warm-up act for the headliner.
Full first round tv schedule now up at:
https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1
Hey - could be worse - Florida has to play at 9:57pm... :)
If you haven't already taken off Friday, now is the time.
Took both days off before the B1G Tournament.
Cool
March 11th, 2018 at 10:48 PM ^
I laughed harder than I should have at this
are The Master of Preparedness.
Took too much!
To like mentally prepare for the tournament, or for unrelated reasons?
i took off the opening day of baseball. would have gone pro if i was taller, faster, more athletic, and much more skilled.
Wait. People don't stay up until 1am and go to work the next day? I'm never in bed before 1230.
I do, but that is because I have two kids under three. I'd get fired if I didn't show up on days I slept fewer than 5 hours.
I'm sure your middle school friends are super impressed with how late you stay up.
I can't take Friday off - have mandatory conferences.
At least I will be back from work in time to watch the game Thursday and then I can sleep walk through conferences into the weekend!
March 12th, 2018 at 12:27 AM ^
glad we play our first game Thursday. hope the Saturday game isn't too late so I can actually watch it.
speaking of, can I watch overseas or is it region restricted? May need to find a sports bar.
beware Montanans at night
I'll still watch at work, but I won't have any fear of missing the home team.
Hell yeah.
Gonna be a late night Tator.
Penn State beat these guys 70-57 back in pre-season...
Shit. I'm going into work late
My 8 year old will be really sad
DVR it (or Youtube it) and watch it in the morning.
the layoff before this game, 9:50 is an awfully long time to wait for the tip. That is going to be a long day for the fellas.
Yeah, but we could have played Friday instead. This is the 4th of 8 possible timeslots.
Well, I won't be getting a lot of sleep, but I'll take it over the dreaded "PLEASE DON'T TELL ME ABOUT THE GAME, I'M DVR'ING IT!" situation during the day.
I hate it when any game we're in is in that 12-4 space on Thursday or Friday, although sometimes over the years we've been lucky enough that someone has taken over a conference room and had the game on and we have a very nice and productive meeting.
what better uses of pto do you have than to watch the tournament?
I worked it a few years ago and learned it is a horrible experience.
March 12th, 2018 at 12:27 AM ^
Remember when the CBS Sports link would have the "Boss Button"?
You clicked on the button when the boss walked by, and a fake spreadsheet would pop up to make it look like you were doing real work instead of watching the tournament.
Oooh. I thought it was intended for bosses to work on. No wonder the formulas were so wonky.
Welp, better call in sick to work on Friday. This is literally the worst part of being in the west.
The game starts at 6:50pm PT, should be over by 9. What time do you usually go to sleep? Right after the early bird dinner special?
Exactly! This is actually favorable to westerners.
and assuming he meant it's the worst part of Michigan being in the west regional, not living in the western part of the US.
Otherwise... sheesh.
the "Early Bird" dinner specials are reserved for Florida only. Call it something else in other parts of the country and world.
Is there a real history on that? Feel like early bird stuff branding is pretty universal.
I think he's talking about Michigan's placement in the West regional. (Though that's not why the game is on then.)
Being in the West region has nothing to do with it.
Sometimes west coast living has its perks
Does the NCAA think that Wichita is on the West Coast? It’s fricken Central time, not even Mountain. Dumbasses.
What the heck are you talking about?
The last games of the day, across the country, start around 10 PM ET and end around midnight. That's true for the east coast and west coast locations both.
It’s going to tip off at 9pm CT at the earliest. How many games during the regular season tip off at 9pm local time? I would venture to guess that there are probably less than 10 throughout the entire season. I’d be fine with a 10ET tip if they were in the Mountain or Western time zone.
If they were in Detroit, they'd be tipping off at 10 PM local time. That's just the way the tournament works.
Well they should fucking fix that. And include more sites on the West Coast.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:51 PM ^
Like in Boise, Idaho?? Yeah because that makes sense
More regionals on the west coast? That would just make the problem we already have worse. There were two west coast regionals this year, and only 1 preferred seed that would prefer either spot. And this isn't a recent problem, every year there are significantly more top-end teams on the East coast than out west.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:10 PM ^
A lot of college basketball games start at 9 p.m. local time throughout the season.
Michigan had two home games this year that started at 9:00. I would say your guess of less than 10 nationwide is a poor guess.