Home and home with Michigan

[Bills Fan]

Tickets to the Duke - UConn game at TD Garden are not cheap. These games for UConn in Boston, NYC or the Mohegan Sun, and I am sure SC’s games in Charlotte, Greenville or Atlanta, typically against ranked OOC opponents are all part of the recent trend to promote “Showcase games” in WBB on national TV. The combination of major network
tv revenue along with healthy gate receipts provides a very nice payday for all the teams involved.

I'm in favor of any Husky games excluded from the awful Big East - Peacock contract. That might be the actual reason for all of these neutral site, showcase games.

 

[cabbie191]

My last job before retiring was in Ann Arbor - looks like a reunion trip is in the works!

 

[oldude]

I'm in favor of any Husky games excluded from the awful Big East - Peacock contract. That might be the actual reason for all of these neutral site, showcase games.

The neutral sites are specifically so that 2 top teams will agree to play each other without one team having to go to Storrs or Hartford in the case of playing UConn. There are also big home & home games that end up on national tv. Fox has the rights to the BE and they can cherry-pick whichever games they want to put on their national broadcasts.

The “showcase games” are a more recent trend that Geno spoke about leading up to the game against Iowa in Brooklyn. They are all about big money paydays for WBB teams and are typically set up in major arenas in big cities that are not necessarily affiliated with college basketball.

 

[Bald Husky]

So, I ask again, are any of these games at home? I don't want to renew my season tickets to just watch Big East teams get slaughtered by our girls. I get the neutral site games, but now it is getting out of hand. What about the fan experience, because we are a great power that has the disadvantage of playing in a DII conference, while the teams in the SEC and BIG get to see great games at home all the time. The non-competence of the Big East is screwing us again.

 

[ec33]

So, I ask again, are any of these games at home? I don't want to renew my season tickets to just watch Big East teams get slaughtered by our girls. I get the neutral site games, but now it is getting out of hand. What about the fan experience, because we are a great power that has the disadvantage of playing in a DII conference, while the teams in the SEC and BIG get to see great games at home all the time. The non-competence of the Big East is screwing us again.

Despite what others have said, it is a legitimate question. And the answer currently seems to be your season ticket will provide for an all-you-can-stomach cupcake buffet.

 

[WiseWillie]

TD Garden in Boston is hardly neutral. It’s likely to be filled with UConn fans. I already bought tickets for my wife and myself, my son and his wife,who live near Boston, and our 2 grandkids who will be attending their 1st college sporting event of any kind.

Way to go Dad and Gramps. Love hearing about Husky family get togethers like that. What a blast it will be for the grandkids in the Garden who will need earplugs for sure!

 

[Zonepress]

So, I ask again, are any of these games at home? I don't want to renew my season tickets to just watch Big East teams get slaughtered by our girls. I get the neutral site games, but now it is getting out of hand. What about the fan experience, because we are a great power that has the disadvantage of playing in a DII conference, while the teams in the SEC and BIG get to see great games at home all the time. The non-competence of the Big East is screwing us

scheduling top 10 or top 20 teams to home at home is extraordinarily difficult for uconn for a variety of reasons
trying to schedule 10 to 12 out of conference games is almost impossible
Additionally, most schools, even if they want to play don’t want to play in January or February once their league season starts
and it goes without saying how is detrimental playing in the big east is for the women

 

[BBallF]

Within a typical league schedule where teams played twice in the same season, it would be referred to as "home and away."

The "home-and-home" contract designates a different scenario for out-of-conference opponents. Each school gets a home game in this case (in different seasons, which don't have to be consecutive). It differentiates the arrangement from different possibilities (single games with only one school getting to play at home or other series involving neutral sites).

So what would a game at Storrs be in 2025 followed by a game against the same opponent at a neutral site in 2026 or vice versa? I think the first is "home and away" and the second is "away and home".

 

[BBallF]

Tickets to the Duke - UConn game at TD Garden are not cheap. These games for UConn in Boston, NYC or the Mohegan Sun, and I am sure SC’s games in Charlotte, Greenville or Atlanta, typically against ranked OOC opponents are all part of the recent trend to promote “Showcase games” in WBB on national TV. The combination of major network
tv revenue along with healthy gate receipts provides a very nice payday for all the teams involved.

Definitely the way to do it. Please suspend all dietary restrictions so that the kids permanently remember going to women's bball games as a fun food occasion. It worked for my daughter who became a college bball player.

 

[ec33]

So what would a game at Storrs be in 2025 followed by a game against the same opponent at a neutral site in 2026 or vice versa? I think the first is "home and away" and the second is "away and home".

I was explaining the terminology. A "home and home" series is about each team getting a home game -- because OOC games are often one shots or at neutral sites.

In league play, UConn plays each Big East opponent twice each season. Once at home. And once on the road. "Home and away."

The actual order does not matter because you are referring to the process, not the specifics of an individual case.

 

[BBallF]

I was explaining the terminology. A "home and home" series is about each team getting a home game -- because OOC games are often one shots or at neutral sites.

In league play, UConn plays each Big East opponent twice each season. Once at home. And once on the road. "Home and away."

The actual order does not matter because you are referring to the process, not the specifics of an individual case.

For BE league games, there is an assumption that the "away" game is played at the "home" of the other team. That is why "home and away" is understood to be at the site where the given team plays. I think the terminology has to be different when there is an OOC game not at the "home" of the other team. For example, we played Iowa this year in Brooklyn, if we were to play them next year at Storrs and it was pre-arranged, it would not be a "home and away" or "home and home" series. I don't know what it is. We all understand what the terms connote but the original poster is right, it doesn't make sense.

 

[ec33]

For BE league games, there is an assumption that the "away" game is played at the "home" of the other team. That is why "home and away" is understood to be at the site where the given team plays. I think the terminology has to be different when there is an OOC game not at the "home" of the other team. For example, we played Iowa this year in Brooklyn, if we were to play them next year at Storrs and it was pre-arranged, it would not be a "home and away" or "home and home" series. I don't know what it is. We all understand what the terms connote but the original poster is right, it doesn't make sense.

Those are neutral site games. The men are in the middle of a neutral site deal in which they played Illinois in MSG last year and then will play Chicago's United Center next year.

 

[packwrap]

I think the terminology has to be different when there is an OOC game not at the "home" of the other team. For example, we played Iowa this year in Brooklyn, if we were to play them next year at Storrs and it was pre-arranged, it would not be a "home and away" or "home and home" series.

These neutral site games are not set up in the traditional manner between coaches, or even as a series.

A sponsor sets up a marquis game at a big arena, in this case Barclay's Center in Brooklyn. They then own TV rights for that single game, and it's their job to go out and find 2 teams to play in their 'big game'. To entice good teams to play, they offer them a nice slice of the TV money they get from the game.

So each year these games are filled with best available teams, and have no linkage to any other scheduled games.

Geno can still set up "home and home" series, such as with Vanderbilt. Sure, it's a disadvantage to go play in Storrs/Hartford, but then you benefit in the year that UConn comes to your arena.

It is increasingly difficult to find a team who wants to play UConn in January or February, as teams now don't want to face a 'power', in the middle of their P4 conference schedule.

Will be interesting to see what happens with traditional opponents like SC, Tenn & ND in the future, plus where the Vandy game will fall in the schedule.

 

[Skeets]

For BE league games, there is an assumption that the "away" game is played at the "home" of the other team. That is why "home and away" is understood to be at the site where the given team plays. I think the terminology has to be different when there is an OOC game not at the "home" of the other team. For example, we played Iowa this year in Brooklyn, if we were to play them next year at Storrs and it was pre-arranged, it would not be a "home and away" or "home and home" series. I don't know what it is. We all understand what the terms connote but the original poster is right, it doesn't make sense.

Wow, you can tell basketball season is over because we all are talking gibberish.