Big East (Home-Away-Repeats)

[Man-Man]

http://www.bigeast.org/News/tabid/4...ts-for-2012-13-Women-s-Basketball-Season.aspx

Schedule link

 

[Wbbfan1]

Don't understand why Marquette was selected as the 2nd team for the home and away games next year. I would think Louisville would be a better opponent for TV ratings.

 

[rjp172]

My understanding is that it was to help prevent further unbalance of the schedules. UConn/ND would have a game against the upper tier and one against a lower tier. Most likely wouldn't effect UConn either way. If you're the 3rd best team, but your repeat games are against #1 & #2 you could end up finishing with 4 losses and a 5th or 6th BET seed. Most leagues play a home/home type schedule so you get an accurate final league ranking. Two years ago ND lost on a last second basket at DePaul which combined with 2 losses to UConn dropped them to the 3rd seed in the BET. DePaul had lost to UConn, Louisville, and Marquette and kept the 2 seed on tie breakers. Similar to how St. Johns got the 2 seed in the BET last year. UConn's schedule was more difficult.

 

[Coler]

I'll just say that the season can't come soon enough, too excited.

 

[Kibitzer]

There are some quirks in the schedule.

The "repeats" generally seem to be one upper-tier opponent and one lower-tier. I said generally.

The most logical repeats are those of St. John's: Rutgers and Seton Hall. Both close by and easy for fans of these teams to do the home-and-away thing.

Look at USF's away games and you quickly realize that they will collect a lot of frequent flyer miles. In contrast, an avid Villanova fan might just drive to most away games.

And the Big East wcbb regular season features UConn vs. Notre Dame, Notre Dame vs. UConn, then everybody else. Encore in the tournament.