I want to focus on BB and specifically my school for a minute.
Over the last two years Ohio State's BB schedule (regular season only, includes pre-season tournaments but not B1G Tournament or NCAA Tournament games) has consisted of:
- 19 B1G Home games (10 in 2017-18 and nine in 2018-19)
- 18 B1G Road games (nine each year)
- 1 B1G neutral site game (IL in the United Center)
- 3 pre-season tournament games (Gonzaga, Stanford, and Butler in the 2017 PK80)
- 2 B1G/ACC Challenge home games (Clemson, Syracuse)
- 2 neutral site OOC games (UNC in NOLA, UCLA in Chicago)
- 2 OOC road games (Cincy, Creighton)
- 15 OOC home games (Robert Morris, Radford, TxSo, Northeastern, Bill&Mary, ApSt, Citadel, Miami-OH, Pur-Ft Wayne, ScST, Samford, CSU, Bucknell, YSU, High Point).
Those 15 OOC games are just pathetic especially for a school that has the largest arena in the B1G yet has average attendance in the bottom half of the league. Per the Worldwide leader, here are the attendance figures for those 15 games:
- 11,128 Robert Morris
- 10,425 Radford
- 9,984 TxSO
- 10,779 Northeastern
- 11,158 Bill&Mary
- 12,616 ApSt
- 10,752 Citadel
- 15,131 Miami, OH
- 12,040 Purdue Fort Wayne
- 10,935 ScST
- 10,725 Samford
- 13,276 CSU
- 14,241 Bucknell
- 12,637 YSU
- 14,264 High Point
None of those 15 OOC home games had attendance of much more than 80% of Ohio State's capacity.
My thinking is that the Buckeyes should have given up at least four of those crappy home games in exchange for two decent OOC home games and two decent OOC road games. I would prefer if they would give up eight of those 15 crappy home games in exchange for four decent OOC home games and four decent OOC road games.