The quality will be fine. I agree with you there. But there's simply less juice for ISU-Houston in Houston than ISU-KU in Lawrence
Men’s Basketball schedule 23-24
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I agree there but 90% of the juice comes from the fan bases in Iowa and Kansas. Outside of that, no one else particularly cares.
I mean, the games have been on ESPN+ for christ sake.
but I don't care about the fan bases outside of Iowa and Kansas... Emphasis on the one based out of Iowa.
That KU-ISU game was placed on ESPN+ precisely because people do care about it.
"Opponents were selected based on a combination of geography, historical results and a poll of the coaches to best balance the schedule in terms of travel and competitiveness. A full Big 12 schedule will be released at a later date."
Big 12 Announces 2024 Men’s Basketball Conference Opponents
The Big 12 announced the Conference scheduling matrix for the 2023-24 Men’s Basketball season. Teams will play five Big 12 opponents twice, then play the other eight conference opponents once, for a total of 18 Conference games.
During the peak of Fred’s time here it was sort of a nationally relevant “rivalry”.
You could maybe make an argument it was. Gameday did come to Ames.
Yep and then the year after we throttled em in Ames (Matt Thomas dunk) and then won at AFH the year after thanks to Big Balls Donny.
Prohms year
even in freddy's days the series was still a bit lopsided with Iowa St going 4-11 vs. them and 2 of those wins came down in KC on a neutral court. BUT for the most part, the games were competitive and intense
Both years I stated above were actually Prohm years. We also handled them in 2015 but in 2016 we won in gold uniforms and Matt had that dunk.
But just think.. block/charge game happened and the bank 3 by McLemore happened to Fred.
Honestly once OUT leaves they need to lock in 3 guaranteed Home/home per team each year and rotate the rest…
Big 8 teams
-ISU
-KU
-KSU
-OSU
Big 12 additions
-Tech
-Baylor
- TCU
-WV
New Additions
- UH
- Cincy
- UCF
- BYU
You could swap UH and WV if you wanted, but think either or would work out.
Guaranteed home & homes games yearly with your protected/historic rivals and rotate through the other 8 schools year to year.
Big 8 teams
-ISU
-KU
-KSU
-OSU
Big 12 additions
-Tech
-Baylor
- TCU
-WV
New Additions
- UH
- Cincy
- UCF
- BYU
You could swap UH and WV if you wanted, but think either or would work out.
Guaranteed home & homes games yearly with your protected/historic rivals and rotate through the other 8 schools year to year.
Both mbb and wbb don't get one last game in Hilton with Texas. Makes the win I got to see because of @Cycsk even more special.
That's only because ESPN knows those 2 fan bases care enough about their teams to subscribe. That is why they plussed it while putting on SoDakSt vs UT amerilloor some such nonsense on the real ESPNs
We don't have to go to Lubbock, Stillwater, Lawrence or Morgantown? Sign me up.
Hines appreciate you a lot, but your off on this take. Ku vs. ISU BB fans stop while flipping thru the channels.
mannnnnng
im sticking to this point!
People outside Kansas/Iowa do not care about the game as much as others may think
There’s a reason they put it on espn+ because they know those 2 fan bases will buy/subscribe to watch
At least we know. We've grown so accustomed to double-round-robin, if nothing else seeing the schedule is good off-season intrigue.
Most of the expected quibbles and observations have been posted already.
For NET purposes, getting two vs. UH won't hurt, and one-off @BU @UT won't, either.
ISU should be able to go no worse than 11-7 vs. that slate.
I was trying to get an how it would look for NET purposes. It's hard to say this early, obviously but there still should be 12/13 Q1 games there. I hope, anyway.
For sure Q1 Games
Houston x2
KSU x2
TCU x2
KU
Baylor
Texas
Possible Q1 Games
@BYU (Finished 85th)
@Cincinnati (Finished 70th
@Oklahoma (finished 68th)
All 3 of those possible Q1 games are toss ups. Q1 games on the road must have a NET between 1-75.
