Sunday's 3rd round game times

[ajb5856]

Any guesses? Not trying to speculate here on who wins although I know that totally matters. As do the results everywhere else to see what the juicy TV games are going to be.

Last year, opening weekend Sunday was slated like this:

11:15am (Central). (Iowa St vs. Ohio St)

1:45pm (Indiana vs. Temple)

4:15 (Kansas vs. UNC)

5:10 (Minnesota vs. Florida)

6:10

6:40

7:40

8:40 (Creighton vs. Duke)

So they had the two games that had all the air to themselves and then started staggering the tip times for the remaining 6 contests. I listed the participants for some of the games. I know this is totally dependent on matchup and site but last year you had Ohio State and Iowa State, two Midwest teams playing all by themselves in the early game. Then you had the second all by yourself game featuring Indiana, another central team. They gave both North Carolina and Duke a somewhat prime time east coast time zone tip time.

Looking at San Antonio this year (now I'm going to speculate/hope) you've got potential 3rd round matchups of North Carolina vs. Iowa State and Creighton vs. Nebraska.

Now, I don't have any reasoning or insight into how they do it. But it had to be run by TV and money. So, with those thoughts you would have to think the ISU/UNC matchup would be game #2 in San Antonio on Sunday. If the matchup is Nebraska/Creighton (IF), it's a nice story/rivalry, Wooden Candidate that Doug guy going against the homestate school in a heated rivalry, but it's probably only cared about in a very specific and very small region right in the middle of the country. It would have to be the earlier of the games, right?

Other teams that could be around for Sunday games are Arizona, Kansas, VCU, Virginia, Kentucky, UCLA, Wichita St, and Duke.

I know there are a lot of factors, but weighing all of this I could see the potential Creighton/Nebraska matchup being a morning or early afternoon tilt.

Thoughts? This only matters to me because I'm trying to arrange travel.

[Silverbacked1]

Any guesses? Not trying to speculate here on who wins although I know that totally matters. As do the results everywhere else to see what the juicy TV games are going to be.

Last year, opening weekend Sunday was slated like this:

11:15am (Central). (Iowa St vs. Ohio St)

1:45pm (Indiana vs. Temple)

4:15 (Kansas vs. UNC)

5:10 (Minnesota vs. Florida)

6:10

6:40

7:40

8:40 (Creighton vs. Duke)

So they had the two games that had all the air to themselves and then started staggering the tip times for the remaining 6 contests. I listed the participants for some of the games. I know this is totally dependent on matchup and site but last year you had Ohio State and Iowa State, two Midwest teams playing all by themselves in the early game. Then you had the second all by yourself game featuring Indiana, another central team. They gave both North Carolina and Duke a somewhat prime time east coast time zone tip time.

Looking at San Antonio this year (now I'm going to speculate/hope) you've got potential 3rd round matchups of North Carolina vs. Iowa State and Creighton vs. Nebraska.

Now, I don't have any reasoning or insight into how they do it. But it had to be run by TV and money. So, with those thoughts you would have to think the ISU/UNC matchup would be game #2 in San Antonio on Sunday. If the matchup is Nebraska/Creighton (IF), it's a nice story/rivalry, Wooden Candidate that Doug guy going against the homestate school in a heated rivalry, but it's probably only cared about in a very specific and very small region right in the middle of the country. It would have to be the earlier of the games, right?

Other teams that could be around for Sunday games are Arizona, Kansas, VCU, Virginia, Kentucky, UCLA, Wichita St, and Duke.

I know there are a lot of factors, but weighing all of this I could see the potential Creighton/Nebraska matchup being a morning or early afternoon tilt.

Thoughts? This only matters to me because I'm trying to arrange travel.

Except that ESPN et al. Will think that the whole state is in SA. You know all 1,500 of us.

[ajb5856]

Any guesses? Not trying to speculate here on who wins although I know that totally matters. As do the results everywhere else to see what the juicy TV games are going to be.

Last year, opening weekend Sunday was slated like this:

11:15am (Central). (Iowa St vs. Ohio St)

1:45pm (Indiana vs. Temple)

4:15 (Kansas vs. UNC)

5:10 (Minnesota vs. Florida)

6:10

6:40

7:40

8:40 (Creighton vs. Duke)

So they had the two games that had all the air to themselves and then started staggering the tip times for the remaining 6 contests. I listed the participants for some of the games. I know this is totally dependent on matchup and site but last year you had Ohio State and Iowa State, two Midwest teams playing all by themselves in the early game. Then you had the second all by yourself game featuring Indiana, another central team. They gave both North Carolina and Duke a somewhat prime time east coast time zone tip time.

Looking at San Antonio this year (now I'm going to speculate/hope) you've got potential 3rd round matchups of North Carolina vs. Iowa State and Creighton vs. Nebraska.

Now, I don't have any reasoning or insight into how they do it. But it had to be run by TV and money. So, with those thoughts you would have to think the ISU/UNC matchup would be game #2 in San Antonio on Sunday. If the matchup is Nebraska/Creighton (IF), it's a nice story/rivalry, Wooden Candidate that Doug guy going against the homestate school in a heated rivalry, but it's probably only cared about in a very specific and very small region right in the middle of the country. It would have to be the earlier of the games, right?

Other teams that could be around for Sunday games are Arizona, Kansas, VCU, Virginia, Kentucky, UCLA, Wichita St, and Duke.

I know there are a lot of factors, but weighing all of this I could see the potential Creighton/Nebraska matchup being a morning or early afternoon tilt.

Thoughts? This only matters to me because I'm trying to arrange travel.

Except that ESPN et al. Will think that the whole state is in SA. You know all 1,500 of us.

Yep if CBS sees that the entire state is there to watch it live, we may get the fake cameras at our game.

[uneblinstu]

I mean, there's really no way to project it until we know who wins. I'd imagine we'll know shortly after the games end on Friday, which probably isn't helpful, but it's impossible to guess with any level of certainty at this point.