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Demo    21,611

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https://247sports.com/college/maryland/Article/Kevin-Willard-Big-Ten-doesnt-understand-how-to-schedule-a-basketball-game-has-caused-its-title-drought-201188531/
 

This is one epic whine by Kevin Willard. Yeah, pretty sure Purdue lost to St Peter’s because of the way the B1G league office scheduled them in January. Tell you what, Kevin, I’ll stipulate to your tournament expertise since you’ve won 1 tournament game in your career, but how about playing at least, I don’t know,  half of a conference schedule before going off on it. 

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woodenshoemanHoosierfan    6,492

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https://247sports.com/college/maryland/Article/Kevin-Willard-Big-Ten-doesnt-understand-how-to-schedule-a-basketball-game-has-caused-its-title-drought-201188531/
 
This is one epic whine by Kevin Willard. Yeah, pretty sure Purdue lost to St Peter’s because of the way the B1G league office scheduled them in January. Tell you what, Kevin, I’ll stipulate to your tournament expertise since you’ve won 1 tournament game in your career, but how about playing at least, I don’t know,  half of a conference schedule before going off on it. 
He did make some sense though

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IUc2016    7,121

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2 hours ago, Demo said:

https://247sports.com/college/maryland/Article/Kevin-Willard-Big-Ten-doesnt-understand-how-to-schedule-a-basketball-game-has-caused-its-title-drought-201188531/
 

This is one epic whine by Kevin Willard. Yeah, pretty sure Purdue lost to St Peter’s because of the way the B1G league office scheduled them in January. Tell you what, Kevin, I’ll stipulate to your tournament expertise since you’ve won 1 tournament game in your career, but how about playing at least, I don’t know,  half of a conference schedule before going off on it. 

Wait, you disagree though? 
 

Not sure it’s the reason the big ten hasn’t won a championship, but the scheduling is really really questionable 

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Demo    21,611

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9 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

Wait, you disagree though? 
 

Not sure it’s the reason the big ten hasn’t won a championship, but the scheduling is really really questionable 

I think 2 things: 1) I think schedules where you aren’t playing everyone home and home are inherently unequal. No way around it. But, if you play 5 of your 1st 7 on the road, you’re then playing 8 of your last 13 at home. Everyone’s playing 10 and 10. I don’t want to hear preemptive bitching about it from a coach. 2) I think the idea that B1G seasonal scheduling has anything at all  to do with failures in the tournament lacks even the slightest merit, and a coach who’s yet to play a season in the conference needs to have a seat. 

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Uspshoosier    49,925

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51 minutes ago, Demo said:

I think 2 things: 1) I think schedules where you aren’t playing everyone home and home are inherently unequal. No way around it. But, if you play 5 of your 1st 7 on the road, you’re then playing 8 of your last 13 at home. Everyone’s playing 10 and 10. I don’t want to hear preemptive bitching about it from a coach. 2) I think the idea that B1G seasonal scheduling has anything at all  to do with failures in the tournament lacks even the slightest merit, and a coach who’s yet to play a season in the conference needs to have a seat. 

Quick look at Twitter and it seems bashing conference schedules his is thing.   I guess he did it at seton hall as well.  
 

 

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IUc2016    7,121

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1 hour ago, Demo said:

I think 2 things: 1) I think schedules where you aren’t playing everyone home and home are inherently unequal. No way around it. But, if you play 5 of your 1st 7 on the road, you’re then playing 8 of your last 13 at home. Everyone’s playing 10 and 10. I don’t want to hear preemptive bitching about it from a coach. 2) I think the idea that B1G seasonal scheduling has anything at all  to do with failures in the tournament lacks even the slightest merit, and a coach who’s yet to play a season in the conference needs to have a seat. 

I already said that I don’t think it’s the sole reason for failures, but that has NOTHING to do with the merits of his complaints that the scheduling is bad. 
 

of course schedules will be uneven, but tip times, 5 of seven on the road, severely uneven number of Saturday and Sunday home tips (equaling more weekday games for some teams with less than great atmospheres) combined with unbalanced schedules is a joke. 
 

the SEC and other leagues play one night during the week (Tuesday/Wednesday) and on Saturday. The big ten playing every night of the week further exacerbates the uneven schedules not in just who you play, but when you play them. Playing two road games in a week or 4 in two weeks is a joke. So you can bash him all you want, but he isn’t wrong. 

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IU Scott    2,375

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2 hours ago, IUc2016 said:

I already said that I don’t think it’s the sole reason for failures, but that has NOTHING to do with the merits of his complaints that the scheduling is bad. 
 

of course schedules will be uneven, but tip times, 5 of seven on the road, severely uneven number of Saturday and Sunday home tips (equaling more weekday games for some teams with less than great atmospheres) combined with unbalanced schedules is a joke. 
 

the SEC and other leagues play one night during the week (Tuesday/Wednesday) and on Saturday. The big ten playing every night of the week further exacerbates the uneven schedules not in just who you play, but when you play them. Playing two road games in a week or 4 in two weeks is a joke. So you can bash him all you want, but he isn’t wrong. 

This is what happens when greedy conferences want to expand and get to big .  When it was 10 the scheduling was easy and it was a round robin.  Also the schedule would be every team played on Thursday and Saturday and everyone had a travel partner.  It was so easy to keep track when and who you were playing.

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RaceToTheTop    28,158

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My vision of the conference scheduling:

4 four team clusters.  You play each team in your cluster twice and every other team outside your cluster once.  Clusters by region.

cluster 1

Maryland, Rutgers, Penn State, Ohio State

cluster 2

Indiana, Purdue.Illinois, Northwestern

cluster 3

Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Wisconsin

cluster 4 

Iowa, Nebraska, USC, UCLA

That would be 18 conference games per team.  No néed for the silly conference games in December and the ‘travel buddy’ system mentioned would work.

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JSHoosier    21,487

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Wasn't sure where to post it, but I saw Anthony Leal used his NIL money to pay off his sister's student loans.  He may not contribute on the court, but served as a good representative of the program; hopefully he can develop and contribute some as an upper classman. 

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