Schedule times just updated for next games

[Marat]

St Johns game is on at 5pm on the Martin Luther Holiday (next Monday).

1/20 vs Xavier at 8:30pm
1/23 @ Creighton 2:30pm

The others are TBD.

2020-21 Men's Basketball Schedule - University of Connecticut Athletics

The official 2020-21 Men's Basketball schedule for the University of Connecticut Huskies

uconnhuskies.com

 

[QuickDraw]

another 6 day, progressively harder schedule with long road trip to Creighton to cap it off.
Why does this years scheduling feel more & more like another unfavorable one like last years, coincidence?

 

[JMick]

another 6 day, progressively harder schedule with long road trip to Creighton to cap it off.
Why does this years scheduling feel more & more like another unfavorable one like last years, coincidence?

because there's a pandemic and the schedule is all screwed up?

 

[Chin Diesel]

another 6 day, progressively harder schedule with long road trip to Creighton to cap it off.
Why does this years scheduling feel more & more like another unfavorable one like last years, coincidence?

Unit test, mid-term, final. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

 

[CTBasketball]

We have 2 big revenge games coming up. Time to hit Xavier and Creighton in the mouth.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Chin Diesel]

How hard is it to schedule a game starting at the top of the hour?

 

[Umami Zen]

Control the controllables.. It is what it is..

 

[Slick]

another 6 day, progressively harder schedule with long road trip to Creighton to cap it off.
Why does this years scheduling feel more & more like another unfavorable one like last years, coincidence?

I think we just had a very favorable road trip. We just won 3 straight games and got a national ranking. I am not sure if you would have been happier if we had a ton of more difficult games early and had several loses right away and then some easier games where we might have gotten some wins but would not have the momentum?

 

[ThabeetDown]

another 6 day, progressively harder schedule with long road trip to Creighton to cap it off.
Why does this years scheduling feel more & more like another unfavorable one like last years, coincidence?

While the pandemic deserves 90% of the blame, I do think the BE could have done a better job utilizing the schools' locations to each other to reduce travel. Everyone but Creighton has a traditional "travel buddy" -- the BE could have taken a page out of the Ivy League's book and done games on Saturday/Mondays (or Thursday/Saturdays) with mini road trips. For example:

UConn and Providence are obvious travel buddies. Same with DePaul and Marquette. DePaul plays at UConn and Marquette plays at PC on Saturday and then they swap for Monday. Easy for all involved. Add a game on every-other Wednesday to make up for the mismatch (aka Creighton geographically) and you have your solid 5 games every 14 days with minimum travel.

Obviously extremely complicated because of the odd number of teams and the TV obligations, but something could have been done.

UConn & Providence - 1 hr 15 min
St. John's & Seton Hall - 40 min
Nova & Gtown - 2 hr 30 min
Xavier & Butler - 2 hours
Marquette & Depaul - 1 hr 30 min

Not to mention the 6 classic BE teams are all close and the midwest (not Creighton) 4 are relatively close (easy for a Sat-Mon-Wed trip). Would suck to do a 3 game road trip in 5 days but if the most you're traveling is 3 hours by bus on the in-between day it's not that bad and it would probably only need to happen once.