The lineup actually won’t be young at all. Michigan will be a very old team with likely 7 of the top 8 in the main rotation consisting of 5 seniors, 1 Junior and 1 sophomore that started his entire freshman season. They won’t be experienced playing together though.
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I’m not sure what the reasoning is behind backing out of the Empire. I’m hoping they have found another preseason tourney to replace it. Lord knows we will need all the OOC games we can get at this point with everything so up in the air. I was hoping they would add more games, not less.
WIll be interesting to see how U-M tackles this… You only get 5 non-conference games without an MTE… Or 7 with an MTE.
Only data point we know is the Big Ten-ACC Challenge…
Could see a situation where joining/hosting a more local MTE with modest competition makes some sense if you are record conscious (can see this logic with the 20-game Big Ten schedule).
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Ohio State is one of the first Big Ten schools that I’ve seen publish a schedule:
Falls Crossover formerly known as Battle 4 Atlantis.
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Looks like Christopher is going to play in this tournament after all
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Just recorded a pod and talked about scheduling a bit… but this seems like a trend that Big Ten teams are following. I wouldn’t be surprised to see U-M host its own MTE based on Juwan’s presser yesterday.
Iowa, Illinois, Rutgers, Wisconsin and Nebraska are already hosting their own MTEs.
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Thats a fun group of schools. Would’ve been pretty happy if that was Michigan’s MTE
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I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Michigan’s schedule ends up looking something like this.
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I’ve been told that Michigan is still going to be playing Oakland early. Oakland will apparently be playing 5 games in 5 days to start the season… Michigan will be the 4th or 5th game
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I’m all the way here for a Big Ten round robin. Let’s get weird.
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I’m all for this and then any nonconference games being teams within a 100sh mile radius (short bus ride, limiting potential for exposure during travel) to help these teams get some games and TV money. I think the sport just needs to accept that this year is going to be strange and the NCAA tournament will have to have criteria carved in jello.
I’d still like to see Michigan host an MTE and keep the ACC and Gavitt games if possible. But if not then we should just play twice against every other team.
Gavitt is already dead for this year I believe. I also don’t think Michigan was slated to be in it this year.
So what OOC games do we even have scheduled at this point? I haven’t heard of anything outside of Oakland.
It seems the major bubbles are getting axed, but what about those university hosted ones? If they could safely execute a couple games between very close regional teams I’d be down for that.
Edit: never mind, it seems others have discussed this since your post.
Yes – on campus MTEs are very much in play. As we discussed on a recent pod, I’d expect U-M to try to host one. This will mostly be local teams and just a way to get in more games though. I’m not sure it is really a “bubble” other than Michigan will pay for testing.
I’d say 99% of the non-conference schedule is probably up in the air at this point but my bet would be U-M hosts its own MTE. And there’s still a chance that everything goes conference only. Pretty crazy times considering that the season is a month away.
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