Conference Schedule Announcement Later Today

[aksarben]

The Big Ten will announce the conference portion of the basketball schedule later this afternoon on BTN (4:30 ET/3:30 CT). I certainly hope we get a better schedule than we had last year because I'm going to be cranky if we end up with a lot of Sunday night games and no Saturday home conference games. I don't mind an occasional Sunday afternoon game but Sunday night at 8:00 PM is just stupid and makes it hard for those who drive in from out of town as I do. I honestly think if we end up with a bunch of Sunday night games again I may have to re-evaluate whether I continue to renew my season tickets in 2018-2019. I'm not getting any younger and I don't have any problem driving at night but I still work and get up at 5:00 AM to do so and getting home from Lincoln at 11:00 at night makes for a short night of sleep.

[uneblinstu]

 

[uneblinstu]

I wish I knew more about how good Purdue and Wisconsin will be. Gonna have to make hay from Jan 6-27. That's the pivotal stretch. If they can get that one on Dec. 5, that would be big. 4 of 5 at home to finish is huge, too.

[Blindcheck]

http://btn.com/2017/08/16/view-the-full-2017-18-big-ten-mens-basketball-conference-schedule/

 

Full schedule

[Dead Dog Alley]

Day	Date	Visiting Team		Home Team	Site
Sunday	Dec. 3, 2017	Nebraska	@	Michigan State	East Lansing, MI
Tuesday	Dec. 5, 2017	Minnesota	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Tuesday	Jan. 2, 2018	Nebraska	@	Northwestern	Rosemont, IL
Saturday	Jan. 6, 2018	Nebraska	@	Purdue	West Lafayette, IN
Tuesday	Jan. 9, 2018	Wisconsin	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Friday	Jan. 12, 2018	Nebraska	@	Penn State	University Park, PA
Monday	Jan. 15, 2018	Illinois	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Thursday	Jan. 18, 2018	Michigan	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Monday	Jan. 22, 2018	Nebraska	@	Ohio State	Columbus, OH
Wednesday	Jan. 24, 2018	Nebraska	@	Rutgers	Piscataway, NJ
Saturday	Jan. 27, 2018	Iowa	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Monday	Jan. 29, 2018	Nebraska	@	Wisconsin	Madison, WI
Tuesday	Feb. 6, 2018	Nebraska	@	Minnesota	Minneapolis, MN
Saturday	Feb. 10, 2018	Rutgers	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Tuesday	Feb. 13, 2018	Maryland	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Saturday	Feb. 17, 2018	Nebraska	@	Illinois	Champaign, il
Tuesday	Feb. 20, 2018	Indiana	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Sunday	Feb. 25, 2018	Penn State	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE

[Dead Dog Alley]

Home schedule:

 

Day	Date	Visiting Team		Home Team	Site
Tuesday	Dec. 5, 2017	Minnesota	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Tuesday	Jan. 9, 2018	Wisconsin	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Monday	Jan. 15, 2018	Illinois	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Thursday	Jan. 18, 2018	Michigan	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Saturday	Jan. 27, 2018	Iowa	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Saturday	Feb. 10, 2018	Rutgers	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Tuesday	Feb. 13, 2018	Maryland	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Tuesday	Feb. 20, 2018	Indiana	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE
Sunday	Feb. 25, 2018	Penn State	@	Nebraska	Lincoln, NE

[throwback]

Shon Morris just said his top 3 teams in the league are MSU, Minny & NW - guess who our first 3 games are with? Sheesh.

 

Brutal early, but if we can survive till February, finishing with 4 out of last 5 at home is about as favorable as it can be down the stretch.

[HuskerFever]

Conference Game Days:

 

Sun: 2

Mon: 3

Tue: 6

Wed: 1

Thu: 1

Fri: 2
Sat: 3

[Cazzie22]

Are the two early December games a way to spread out the conference season?

[hskr4life]

30 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

Are the two early December games a way to spread out the conference season?

 

Big 10 tourney is a week earlier this year.

[AuroranHusker]

14 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

 

Big 10 tourney is a week earlier this year.

 

And it's a week earlier because the B1G league tourney is at Madison Square Garden this year, which annually hosts the Big East tournament during the prime date slots.

 

Edited August 17, 2017 by AuroranHusker

[AuroranHusker]

Handy dandy NU schedule B1G picture:

 

 

[jayschool]

Northwestern in Rosemont? That might help, eh?

[trickey]

7 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Conference Game Days:

 

Sun: 2

Mon: 3

Tue: 6

Wed: 1

Thu: 1

Fri: 2
Sat: 3

It looks like the schedule has one Friday and 4 Saturdays.

[aksarben]

We have 2 non-conference home games on Friday in December (22nd & 29th), no in conference home games on Friday. As for Saturday we have 2 home conference games on Saturday (Iowa and Rutgers). I can live with Friday night home games it's the Sunday games that start at 8:00 PM that drive me nuts, it's a school night (I'm too old for that) and the next day is a work day (which I still do) and it's hard getting home from Lincoln at around 11:15 then having to get up at 5:00 to get ready for work (this would apply to weeknights too).

[TourneyBound]

18 hours ago, throwback said:

Shon Morris just said his top 3 teams in the league are MSU, Minny & NW - guess who our first 3 games are with? Sheesh.

 

Brutal early, but if we can survive till February, finishing with 4 out of last 5 at home is about as favorable as it can be down the stretch.

Im thinking we will be lucky to win any of those first 4 big 10 games.  That's okay though we started 3-0 last year and look where that got us....  Really liking the end of our schedule..

[HuskerFever]

10 hours ago, trickey said:

It looks like the schedule has one Friday and 4 Saturdays.

 

Good catch. Either they changed it on Huskers.com between then and now or (the likely case) I just misread it.

[Red Don]

2 hours ago, ConkintheCorner said:

Im thinking we will be lucky to win any of those first 4 big 10 games.  That's okay though we started 3-0 last year and look where that got us....  Really liking the end of our schedule..

 

Kind of like 2013-14. 

[hskr4life]

 

 

Scheduling note: The @HuskerHoops at @IlliniMBB matchup, originally scheduled for Sat., Feb. 17, 2018, will now be played on Sun., Feb. 18.

 

Edited August 17, 2017 by hskr4life