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Message: [QUOTE="Rufus, post: 5026850, member: 7277"] B1G teams released their volleyball schedules. Once again, travel is well thought out and minimizing the negative effects on student athletes. As in other non-football schedules announced so far with 20 conference games, the former PAC schools will play home and home against each other and then either home or away against the 14 other B1G schools. Here are Washington's 10 away games....... @ USC (Sunday) @ UCLA (Wednesday) @ Oregon (Sunday) Those are three trips they have always made for conference games. And the 7 games in the Eastern and Central Time Zones are a total of 4 trips, 3 of the 7 games are played on a Sunday, so they will not miss class for those 3 games and will be back on campus on Sunday evenings. Those 3 games follow Friday games. While times have not been released, I'm assuming the Friday games are at night, where the west coast teams can fly out first thing Friday morning on a charter flight and then get to their destination with plenty of time for warmups and what not, so students only miss 1 day of class (Friday) for those double play weekend games. @ Iowa (Friday) and @ Wisconsin (Sunday) @ Michigan (Friday) and @ Michigan State (Sunday) @ Ohio State (Friday) and @ Penn State (Sunday) And then since there are an odd number of away games with the 7/7 split, one trip by itself...... @ Minnesota (Thursday) So if you add that all up, 5 of the 10 away games are on a Sunday and will result in no missed class time. The other 5 games result in missing class 1 day each, for a total of 5 missed class days. You could even be generous here and say they fly out the day before the games to be well rested and that is still only 10 missed class days, including the Wednesday game @ UCLA. 4 trips to the Eastern/Central Time Zone. And remember, in the past, they would have made AT LEAST 1 such trip in the nonconference portion of the schedule every year, whereas now those nonconference games are going to be more regionally scheduled. [URL unfurl="true"]https://gohuskies.com/news/2024/6/12/big-ten-volleyball-schedule-unveiled.aspx[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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