It's a Monday. CBS won't carry a Monday night game. And ESPN/ESPN2 won't carry because of Monday Night Football.
Maybe so, but this is squarely on ESPN's shoulders and / or possibly the Gavitt Games rules. It's possible all the home Big Ten games are on BTN and the home Big East games are on FS1.
OK. When would you play it? Tuesday night is the Champions Classic (you know ESPN isn't putting it on ESPN2 to rival that, and they probably have a MAC football game -- which they do: http://www.espn.com/college-football/schedule/_/week/12), so still on BTN if you move to Tuesday.
When would I have played it? Saturday or Sunday. I'll make it even clearer, any day or time that would allow it to be on ESPN or CBS. Biggest non-conference game since....... and we're playing on friggin B1G network.
Ah, basketball talk. To be sure we are on same page, a box and 1 is 4 guys playing zone with one playing man on a perceived dominant scorer. The basic method to defeat it is to run the dominat player through a gauntlet of screens or shift zone to the ball on one side and screen the dominant player free on the other. Easy zone for college level players to defeat.
It's a bit of pick your poison, but Jay Wright is willing to live or die by the three. More often than not it works well for him. Nova will spread you out and then force you to guard them. I don't know about next season, but Wright has no qualms about playing a 4 guard system. Haas and Swanigan will both be tested. Expect Haas to have to prove that he can handle pick and rolls. I would probably switch screens 1-4 and hedge softly with Haas. I wouldn't attempt to take away the threes as much as try to get Nova out of rhythm and try to out score them exploiting Purdue's mismatches on the other end. I think it will be a competitive game, because Purdue presents some match-up problems for Nova, as well.
Saturday and Sunday, you would get ZERO coverage due to college football and pro football.
CBS carries very few games until February (because of NFL football).
I love how you exaggerate. No one said it was easy. What was said is it seems like a game this big in the non-con could be on one of the networks instead of B1G. I also said the game should be played ANY day or time that allows this kind of coverage. Here is link showing TV schedule from last season. Looks like several games managed to get on ESPN platform in early November.
I gotcha. With the Gavitt Games (at least last year), none of those games were on ESPN networks. They were ALL on BTN and FS1, which I assume is the deal that was made (Big Ten home games on BTN, Big East home games on FS1).
Actually I said Saturday or Sunday, but added I would play the game any day or time that would allow it to be on CBS or ESPN. There were many games played on the ESPN platform last November on multiple days of the week.
Yep, remember being in MA for that game. Ton of pregame hype and Duke took the crowd out if it in the first 5 minutes and Mackey was never a factor. Every time we made a mini-run, Duke had an answer. Very frustrating game.
4 and a door is what a few Olympic swimmers were playing during free time in Rio.
Sorry Tex. Just didn't like being misquoted. Now back to your program...
But again. You don't know Nova's schedule.
Yes. Big east home games on fs1 and big ten home games on btn or ESPN (which would be a no for a Monday). That was the original setup unless something changed with overall recent deals.
