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The game times are pre-determined by the seeds, with the top seed getting the first game so they get the most rest time.
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I don't know about playing an early game really being conducive to getting more rest.
Doesn't it make more sense to put the highest seeded team, I don't know, in a prime time slot when people might be watching on TV and maybe more people would be attending in person? I know, crazy idea.
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Game 1 tomorrow is at Noon
Semi 1 on Saturday is at 2 pm
They get 26 hrs between start times, their opponent gets 23.5
Final is at 2:30 on Sunday
Top seed gets 24.5 hrs betwen start times. Opponent gets 22
This is the way almost every conf tournament is done.
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I think I'd trade a couple extra hours between games for getting to sleep in longer in the morning. How long before game time do you need to be at the arena? Probably 2 hours or so.
Game is at noon local time, but for West Coast teams who probably haven't adjusted to time difference yet it is 9 am. For UCLA maybe it doesn't matter as much, but Washington got stuck with early game 2 days in a row. As would USC if they had won today.
edit--this wouldn't matter if conference realignment hadn't brought us all this insanity of teams being in the same league but 3/4 of the way or entirely on opposite sides of the country from each other