Possible times for Thanksgiving/Friday?

[JB75]

Does anyone know what our possible tip times are if we win or lose tomorrow for Thursday and Friday ? trying to find my openings to watch the game while juggling kids ,family and Thanksgiving. I’m assuming if we keep advancing ,we play the later night tips -which will be perfect -this 2:30pm mid-afternoon junk is ridiculous. Would’ve been great to watch them play tomorrow night in a nice pre-Thanksgiving battle.

 

[Jimdish255]

Does anyone know what our possible tip times are if we win or lose tomorrow for Thursday and Friday ? trying to find my openings to watch the game while juggling kids ,family and Thanksgiving. I’m assuming if we keep advancing ,we play the later night tips -which will be perfect -this 2:30pm mid-afternoon junk is ridiculous. Would’ve been great to watch them play tomorrow night in a nice pre-Thanksgiving battle.

Yeah I was trying to look into the schedule yesterday and and there's really not much out there so maybe somebody else who's going or who bought tickets might have some insights.

 

[huskdogs]

12 or 2:30 according to this…. Here’s to playing at 12

 

[Kathy]

Does anyone know what our possible tip times are if we win or lose tomorrow for Thursday and Friday ? trying to find my openings to watch the game while juggling kids ,family and Thanksgiving. I’m assuming if we keep advancing ,we play the later night tips -which will be perfect -this 2:30pm mid-afternoon junk is ridiculous. Would’ve been great to watch them play tomorrow night in a nice pre-Thanksgiving battle.

If we win we play at 12, lose 2:30. Lose bracket gets us to laterin the day or evening. Winning keeps us daytime- championship is 12 friday

 

[Get a Job]

If we win, it's noon on Thursday. If we lose to Auburn, it's 2:30. Get this: If we make the championship game, it's 11:00 AM on Friday!!

 

[8893]

Friday could be 11:00, 1:30, 4:30 or 7:00 at this point.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I’ll be in freaking Disney for this. I selfishly wanted the tournament to have to get relocated to Orlando.

 

[Get a Job]

If we win, it's noon on Thursday. If we lose to Auburn, it's 2:30. Get this: If we make the championship game, it's 11:00 AM on Friday!!
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My apologies. Here is a zoomed in view of the relevant part of the bracket.

 

[Waquoit]

Top half gets the better sched it appears.

 

[JB75]

So yer telling me if we win we get the more ridiculous times? Noon on Thursday and 11am Friday??? Serious? Never heard of a situation where the championship is before consolation games. Oh well. Is what it is

 

[ConnZag3]

Hilarious how ESPN thinks every game is going to finish in 2 hours or less to be able to play every game back to back with 2.5 hours between tips when there's a 30 minute warm up!

 

[6xChamps]

This board finds a way to complain about everything

 

[UCFan1513]

This schedule is objectively stupid - why wouldn't you put better games in prime time

 

[superjohn]

This board finds a way to complain about everything

In fairness to the complainers, the times are pretty horrible and having the championship game before the consolation game is ridiculous.

 

[husky429]

Games are gonna end up starting an hour or more late with this schedule. I bet those 4:00 game doesn't tip off until 5:30 or later.

 

[Big East Fa]

This schedule is objectively stupid - why wouldn't you put better games in prime time

Thanksgiving night ESPN has the Egg Bowl. #12 OleMiss vs #25 Miss State. Friday night ESPN has UNC/NCST.

 

[HuskyHawk]

In fairness to the complainers, the times are pretty horrible and having the championship game before the consolation game is ridiculo

TV drives the schedule. Lots of stuff on Thanksgiving and Friday, college football, NFL, they are probably trying to avoid very bad matchups.

 

[aburks41]

11AM on a Friday for the championship is such a terrible start time

 

[Kenny11]

Hilarious how ESPN thinks every game is going to finish in 2 hours or less to be able to play every game back to back with 2.5 hours between tips when there's a 30 minute warm up!

Haha yup. Games will be starting an hour late

 

[UCFan1513]

Thanksgiving night ESPN has the Egg Bowl. #12 OleMiss vs #25 Miss State. Friday night ESPN has UNC/NCST.

Didn't know that. Makes sense from a revenue perspective, but both those games are far worse TV to me than the championship game of this (no matter who's playing), but I'm in the minority

 

[Kathy]

If we get to the championship game who cares what time it is - it means we played damn good basketball.
BTW- knew Izzo was short but holy I'm only 5 feet and could almost see eye to with him when I walked by him just now.

 

[UCFan1513]

Think the moral here should be that it's a good thing UConn is no longer in a conference that hitched their boat to ESPN (not the only reason it's good to not be in that dumpster fire conference)

 

[Big East Fa]

11AM on a Friday for the championship is such a terrible start time

When this tourney was on NBCSN that wasn't the case. ESPN has too much stuff. Time is to get a head start on football.

 

[Big East Fa]

Didn't know that. Makes sense from a revenue perspective, but both those games are far worse TV to me than the championship game of this (no matter who's playing), but I'm in the minority

I get it. Too each it's own. I'm in the minority who wants to watch college basketball over the NFL.
College football kills basketball in ratings. Not even close.

 

[Kolumbo]

Is this a typical bracket?
If you win and then lose, the worst you can do is 4th place.
If you lose and then win, the best you can do is 5th place.