Oh boy. As if the Illinois fan outrage wasnât loud enough already
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My Illinois fan cousin texted me and said the UM womenâs team is playing on Thursday against Purdue yet the menâs team is (obviously) not playing on Thursday against Illinois. Whatâs up with that?
The womenâs team has more games to make up and Purdue is 12th in the B1G. I am guessing Warde and KBA agreed we could afford to play them without much warmup.
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Big Ten release on todayâs updates to the schedule:
The Big Ten has announced adjustments to its menâs basketball schedule. Illinois at Nebraska, which had been previously postponed on January 13, has been rescheduled to February 12. Illinois at Michigan State, which had been previously postponed on January 23, has been rescheduled to February 23.
The Big Ten will continue to work with its member institutions to identify rescheduling options for other games that have been postponed.
In order to accommodate the rescheduled contests, the Big Ten also announced additional changes to the schedule. A full list of schedule adjustments can be found below:
Wednesday, Feb. 10
Indiana at Northwestern â 5:30 pm ET/4:30 pm CT on BTN (time change)
Rutgers at Iowa â 7:30 pm ET/6:30 pm CT on BTN (time change)
Wisconsin at Nebraska â 9:30 pm ET/8:30 pm CT on BTN (moved from Feb. 11, 2021)
Thursday, Feb. 11
Purdue at Minnesota â 5:00 pm ET/4:00 pm CT on ESPN2 (time and network change)
Friday, Feb. 12
Illinois at Nebraska â 9:00 pm ET/8:00 pm CT on BTN (rescheduled from Jan. 13, 2021)
Tuesday, Feb. 23
Illinois at Michigan State â 7:00 pm ET/6:00 pm CT on FS1 (rescheduled from Jan. 23, 2021)
Wednesday, Feb. 24
Nebraska at Illinois â Game to be moved to final week of the season (Date and Time TBA)
Playing Penn State on Feb 16th still seems to be the only possible game we can makeup that week.
Looks like Penn State and Northwestern would also be available on the 23rd and 25th as well.
Scheduling Illinois on the 25th could be deemed as âfairâ since that could* be Michiganâs 4th game in 7 days and Illinoisâ 4th game in 8 days.
*assuming Michigan would get a game rescheduled on the 23rd.
Seems like the only way we get 2 MSU games is back to back on the final weekend too.
This seems likely the more I look at the schedule.
This makes sense to me too.
PSU on the 16th
Illinois on the 25th
MSU B2B,
Indiana B2B? 
would the B2Bs be one game in each venue?
Since the conference made it clear that its priority is that every team play at least once, and then rivalry games, Iâd hope that they donât seek to reschedule PSU. Keep the team fresh.
MSU seems easy enough to do at each home arena. Indiana not sure, I assume it would have to be at one arena though.
I think the best solution would be to play Nebraska at Crisler 11 days in a row.
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MSU would be an easy home and home. No idea on IU if they would go down that route at the same arena. Someone on Twitter noted that Purdue has 2 games left against Nebraska and could just play two there (as a hypothetical).
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I read âpriorityâ as if we have two options to play on one day, we pick the teams that havenât played. Other teams are rescheduling games even if theyâve already played teams.
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Indiana and Michiganâs schedules lineup to play twice in three days right now, Feb 27th and March 1st, so it doesnât necessarily have to be back to back days.
My guess is that we end up playing 4 games out of the five dates of Feb 21, 23, 25, 27, and Mar 1st. Right now the 21st and 27th are the only scheduled spots @OSU and @IU respectively. PSU/NW are both available the 23rd and 25th, Illinois is available on the 25th, and IU is available March 1st.
Thatâd be 2 remade games in that 9 day stretch, a potential third being MSU in the final weekend, and the fourth would have to be PSU on the 16th. That would get us to 19 games total.
BTN is going to force Beilein back into coaching if they keep making him call Nebraska and Penn State games.
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which one would be unmade in that case? @NW?
Either @NW on the 23rd or IU on Mar 1st wouldnât get played. Unless they force Michigan to play 5 in 9 days.
The Illinois game would be on the 25th
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On the other hand, heâs the only reason Iâm watching.
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Watched more Nebrasketball than I care to admit and Iâm left wondering why they fired Tim Miles.
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I think I would be willing to trade @NW for an IU B2B at Crisler if 20 games is absolutely imperative. Not sure IU would go for that though.
I would hope so unless both b2bs are played @ Crisler hahađ