2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[medinabuckeye1]

I had to look up where Greenbrier was. Looks like a nice area. Not sure how to get there easily.

You can't

Unless I'm confusing it with something else, isn't the whole point of being there that it is basically in the middle of nowhere?

[medinabuckeye1]

Update:
Earlier in this thread we noted that the two SoCal schools and the two PacNW schools appeared to be grouped for scheduling and I speculated that they were planning road swings. Ohio State's schedule is now out (I'm sure the others are also) and that is exactly how it works for the Buckeyes. 

Ohio State hosts the two PacNw schools on 1/9 and 2/12 but the trips to the two SoCal schools are grouped as a single LA roadtrip with games on Sunday, February 23 at UCLA then on Wednesday, February 26 at USC.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Same for Purdue. We host the LA schools, one in early Feb and one in late Feb.

But our travel to the PacNW is Washington on Weds Jan 15 and Oregon on Sat Jan 18. 

[FearlessF]

so, you stay 3 or 4 nights on the trip?


take your bookbag along

[LittlePig]

So it looks like most Big Ten cross-country road trips are 2 days apart (examples Sun-Wed, Tues-Friday)

For the 14 teams in the east&central time zones.,  that means one trip a year to the West coast, to play 2 games,  2 days apart

For the 4 west coast schools,  that means each school will make 4 road trips a year to the east or central time zone,  2 games on each road trip that are 2 days apart. 

That's a lot time off-campus for the West coast teams.  I hope they are taking all online classes.  I know that's what Caitlin Clark did her final semester at Iowa.  In fact she was still taking online classes when she was playing her first games for the Indiana Fever.

[medinabuckeye1]

So it looks like most Big Ten cross-country road trips are 2 days apart (examples Sun-Wed, Tues-Friday)

For the 14 teams in the east&central time zones.,  that means one trip a year to the West coast, to play 2 games,  2 days apart

For the 4 west coast schools,  that means each school will make 4 road trips a year to the east or central time zone,  2 games on each road trip that are 2 days apart. 

That's a lot time off-campus for the West coast teams.  I hope they are taking all online classes.  I know that's what Caitlin Clark did her final semester at Iowa.  In fact she was still taking online classes when she was playing her first games for the Indiana Fever.

From the perspective of whether or not to add the schools, I think this is a good reason not to but that is water over the dam as they say.  From the perspective of scheduling I think this is the best they could have done.  One multi-day trip for the EST/CST teams and four multi-day trips for the PST teams is, IMHO, vastly better than two one-day trips for the EST/CST teams and eight one-day trips for the PST teams.  

I also think that the trips to LA will be MUCH easier on the EST/CST teams than the trips to the PacNW.  Pauley Pavilion to the Galen Center is 12.4 mi, 43 min by car per google.  I don't know LA well enough to know if this is practical but getting a team hotel about half-way between those two would permit you to easily stay in one place the whole time you are there.  Conversely, Matthew Knight Arena (Oregon) to Alaska Airlines Arena is 289 mi, 5-1/2 hours by car per google so obviously the trip to UW/UO will require a hotel change and either a short flight or a near-daylong bus ride in between.  

I think this was important for the kids but I also think this will benefit ticket sales, alums, fans, and family members of the players.  Let's say, for example, that my brother (fellow-tOSU alum) lived in LA or that @betarhoalphadelta had a brother who was a fellow Purdue alum/fan who lived in Chicago.  This year (see above) Ohio State plays UCLA at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday, February 23 and USC at the Galen Center on Wednesday, February 26.  I'm not saying that I'd go to LA just to see the games but if my brother, my SiL, my niece, and my two nephews lived out there I might combine a visit with going to the games with my brother.  I could fly out on Saturday, February 22, go to the tOSU/USC game on Sunday with my brother and his family, visit with them a few days, see the tOSU/UCLA game on Wednesday and possibly get back on a redeye for work on Thursday.  Similarly, next year when Purdue plays USC and UCLA in LA, Brad's hypothetical brother could visit him and see both games.  

[betarhoalphadelta]

I also think that the trips to LA will be MUCH easier on the EST/CST teams than the trips to the PacNW.  Pauley Pavilion to the Galen Center is 12.4 mi, 43 min by car per google.  I don't know LA well enough to know if this is practical but getting a team hotel about half-way between those two would permit you to easily stay in one place the whole time you are there.    

I don't know what sort of schedule they need to hold on these trips, but I'd say it's certainly doable to have a single hotel for the whole trip. You maybe build in a little extra time for the team bus to get place to place, but I have to think that's better than having to swap hotels in between games. 

[medinabuckeye1]

I don't know what sort of schedule they need to hold on these trips, but I'd say it's certainly doable to have a single hotel for the whole trip. You maybe build in a little extra time for the team bus to get place to place, but I have to think that's better than having to swap hotels in between games.

Agreed and that is how I view it, swapping hotels sucks. Much easier to stay in one place the whole time. 

[medinabuckeye1]

This is going to create some weird situations.  

As mentioned upthread, Ohio State is at UCLA on Sunday, February 23 and at USC on Wednesday, February 26.  

Here is where it gets weird:
The games prior to the tOSU/UCLA game are:

• vs Northwestern on Thursday, February 20 in Columbus for Ohio State
• vs Minnesota on Tuesday, February 18 in LA for UCLA

So not only does UCLA get two extra days rest, they also have no travel.  

But then . . .

The games prior to the tOSU/USC game are:

• at UCLA on Sunday, February 23 for Ohio State
• at Rutgers on Sunday, February 23 for USC

So Ohio State will be REALLY far from home but arguably more well rested than the Trojans because the Trojans have to fly home after their Sunday game on the East Coast whereas @betarhoalphadelta and I are assuming that after Ohio State's Sunday game at UCLA they'll just go back to their hotel.  

[Brutus Buckeye]

Bwarbs is going to put Purdue up in his Mother in Law suite. 

[FearlessF]

Maybe a couple guards 

[boilerbanger]

Our football sucks so bumping this to the top to talk about something we are good at.

Purdue picked to 3 peat by the media at BIG media day.  

Braden Smith picked as Preseason BTPOY

[FearlessF]

apparently, the Huskers changed the floor in Pinnacle Bank arena

at mid-court from the shape of the state to a big Red "N"

[ELA]

In better news, apparently Oregon cleaned up their court design as well