NCAA proposes changing season schedule/starting dates

[HuskyNan]

An earlier start is OK with me!

First contest dates proposed for DI men’s, women’s basketball - NCAA.org

The Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Oversight Committees proposed changes to first regular-season contest dates beginning with the 2025-26 season.

www.ncaa.org

 

[visitingcock]

My worry with starting earlier is that it puts games in more competition with football( college and pro) for a limited number of tB broadcast slots.

 

[HuskyNan]

My worry with starting earlier is that it puts games in more competition with football( college and pro) for a limited number of tB broadcast slots.

Football is on Saturdays, only one day in the extended period

 

[visitingcock]

COLLEGE Football is on Saturdays, only one day in the extended period

Football is on Thursday evening Friday evening and all day Saturday. NFL is all day Sunday and also Monday night. and some other days. Men's AND women's basketball are forced in the early season to cram their games in around those football broadcasts. As the season progresses into bowls and playoffs in December, the schedule opens up.

Why compete for limited slots against football ? If you extend the season, do it on the back end - not the front.

 

[Gus Mahler]

Football is on Thursday evening Friday evening and all day Saturday. NFL is all day Sunday and also Monday night. and some other days. Men's AND women's basketball are forced in the early season to cram their games in around those football broadcasts. As the season progresses into bowls and playoffs in December, the schedule opens up.

Why compete for limited slots against football ? If you extend the season, do it on the back end - not the front.

But then we'd lose the catchy alliteration and historical weight of "March Madness." "April Madness" just wouldn't be the same.

But your point is taken.

 

[CL82]

But then we'd lose the catchy alliteration and historical weight of "March Madness." "April Madness" just wouldn't be the same.

But your point is taken.

And April Abnormality just doesn't have the same ring to it

 

[HuskyNan]

Football is on Thursday evening Friday evening and all day Saturday. NFL is all day Sunday and also Monday night. and some other days. Men's AND women's basketball are forced in the early season to cram their games in around those football broadcasts. As the season progresses into bowls and playoffs in December, the schedule opens up.

Why compete for limited slots against football ? If you extend the season, do it on the back end - not the front.

I imagine most networks how to schedule games so that the teams that are most watched aren't competing with one another. Put UConn vs Anyone on TV against Eastern Michigan-Marshall. I think UConn could hold its own.

 

[OldSchooler]

All in favor of starting the season earlier. By October I'm jumping out of my skin already.

 

[Centerstream]

But then we'd lose the catchy alliteration and historical weight of "March Madness." "April Madness" just wouldn't be the same.

But your point is taken.

Especially since both March Madness tournaments do in fact culminate in April. But that is never mentioned in the advertising.