Michigan vs Houston set for 9:40 Eastern Tip-off
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.
March 16th, 2018 at 10:09 AM ^
March 16th, 2018 at 10:17 AM ^
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.
Ourselves to blame.
Go Blue.
Beat Man Bun.
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..
March 16th, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
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
Perfect game time honestly. Get wasted and pass out by 2 pm on St. Patty's...wake up just in time for the game
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!
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....
My main concern is another game where Z is on the bench for 25 minutes. We need him for 35+ against man bun.
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.
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.
Idk if this is better or worse than the finger nails Z eats. Odd dietary habits from the Michigan Basketball team...
For everyone involved. Hopefuuly the team can get through this and I can find yime for a nap today.
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.
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.