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Handy Johnson

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1 hour ago, Huskerpapa said:

My suspicion is that divisions will disappear in all sports within the Big Ten.

I’m guessing they’ll stay in Football, but the days of playing everyone home/away in Basketball like the old Big 8 are long gone…

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If they get to 18 or 20 teams, basketball scheduling and maintaining relatively balanced schedule strength becomes pretty easy - play everyone 1x and play your "rival" 2x. That gives you 18 or 20 conf games.

 

For a program like NU, dropping back to 18 conf games would be nice - gives you the option of having a couple of non-con cupcakes while you're building the program vs playing Purdue and USC a 2nd time. 

 

However, I don't think TV will allow them to go below 20 conference games.

 

Volleyball can follow a model like basketball - easier to have equally balanced schedules with more teams since they play 20 conf matches now.

 

Football becomes trickier the bigger they go for maintaining balance - you almost have to go to 4 pods with 2 rotating pods in each division - not sure they'll do that though. Seems to be a lot of push for no divisions and random schedules. There's no way to maintain balanced schedules that way, unfortunately, but they can have the big names play more often for TV ratings.

 

Baseball plays just 24 conf games out of 56 total, so they could use more conf games. Competitive balance is really out of whack now when you don't play 1/3 of the conf teams each year and there's no divisions. If they have some warm weather sites (USC, UCLA, etc) they can use in Feb and early March, though, they can get really creative with weekend pods and more conference games and find a far better competitive balance than they have now, something like they did during the Covid year.

 

It's going to be very sport specific. Hopefully competitive balance gets most of the consideration, but TV dollars will definitely play a role.

 

Shawn Eichorst's Toupee

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2 hours ago, Norm Peterson said:

 

It was kind of interesting watching Danny Manning on the Louisville sidelines. He was the interim HC at Maryland last season after Turgeon was fired.

 

Now, he's on the bench for winless Louisville while his former program is undefeated under a new coach.

 

Speaking of which, does ANYONE have a quick link to the list of probably just conference programs and their off-season personnel changes? I'd be curious to know who returned for Maryland and who Willard brought in new this season.

 

Maryland looked really good last night, particularly in the 2nd half. At one point, they were 6-9 on second half treys. Louisville looked more like us.

 

https://omaha.com/sports/huskers/mens-basketball/big-ten-basketball-examining-offseason-transactions-for-every-team/article_11144982-2267-11ed-b4a9-0bda809ac5be.html

 

Not really a quick list since it also includes pre-season team outlooks, but I think that's what you're looking for.

 

nuhusker7

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Florida state is tied with Purdue 44-44 right now.

 

Im heading to the arena now so won’t be able to watch any more. So far FSU hasn’t looked bad, which is what I was thinking in the first half against Nebraska too.

hskr4life

hskr4life

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ACC clinches a tie with two wins in the early games.

 

Monday:

Va Tech takes down Minny by 10.

Pitt over NW in Evanston by 29!!!

 

Tuesday:

Maryland over Louisville by 25.  Louisville is bad this year.

Clemson beats Penn State in 2 OT's.  Quite the game.

Illinois over the Cuse by 29!!!

Iowa takes care of Ga Tech by 16.

Wake Forest beats Wisco at Wisco.  Chucky with an ill advised 3 at the end.  78-75 final

Virginia wins at Michigan 70-68.  Quite the drama in this one as VA missed some FTs and it appeared there may have been a foul on the final 3 attempt for Michigan.

 

Wednesday:

Boston College @ Nebraska

Purdue wins @ FSU Closer than I thought, but... it's a win for the Big 10

OSU couldn't quite pull one out at Duke and the ACC has clinched at least a tie.  Going to need a B1G sweep to end it if we want to tie.

Miami holds down the home court by beating Rutgers and gives the ACC 6 wins.

UNC @ Indiana

Michigan St @ Notre Dame

HuskerFever

HuskerFever

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10 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Purdue wins @ FSU Closer than I thought, but... it's a win for the Big 10

 

My understanding is that Purdue's flight landed from Portland at 6 am ET on Monday. Then landed at 2:30 am ET this morning. So it's been a rough travel week for them.

AuroranHusker

AuroranHusker

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On 12/1/2022 at 11:05 AM, hhcmatt said:

Wisconsin blowing a game at home to Wake Forest kept us from tying this thing.

 

ACC win 8-6

 

 

Don't forget Juwan Howard's squad had an 11-pt. halftime lead that they squandered. Thanks Wolverine chokers. 🤨

AuroranHusker

AuroranHusker

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2 hours ago, Nighthawk said:

Think the Big 10 will do something big or just move on to regular games?  Could they call it a challenge or would they have to come up with another name since all the challenges have been ESPN connected?

 

BIG 10/Big 12 Rumble? 

 

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/35130417/acc-sec-challenge-announced-2023-24-college-hoops-season

 

 

Big Ten-Big 12 Battle.

 

 

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