[81alum]

Just to make it fair, the NCAA (or is it E$PN) have scheduled the overall #1 seed's match to be the earlier semifinal game, on a workday, during working hours for their home fans.  The Friday 3PM PDT game should be over before 5PM PDT.

For some reason, the first semifinal game has been moved an hour earlier than in the previous two years.  The second semifinal game is at the approximate same time as in the previous years.

Stanford gets something like 67 hours from the end of the Elite Eight to the semifinals;  UConn gets an extra 26 hours.
The winner of the Stanford-So. Carolina game will get about 46 hours to the championship game
while the winner of the UConn-Az game will get about 42.5 hours.

(In 2019, the WBB Final Four had a similar schedule BUT an hour later for the first semifinal game.  Overall #1 Baylor had the earlier game on Friday (4PM PDT) and the fans of their opponent Oregon had to leave work early to see the game.  In 2018, the overall #1 got the later semifinal game.   In 2018-2021, UConn got the later game.)

Note that the first semifinal game starts at 3PM PDT for Stanford, or would start at 3PM MST for Arizona, one of the two was going to have this problem.

I am mightily irritated by this.  I will be in the middle of a routine medical procedure, sedated, during the game.  It never occurred to me that a final four game would be played during the regular 40 hour work week.  I'm not even sure if I knew or thought there would be a final four when I made this appointment.  At least my stress levels will be low.

[81alum]

Just to make it fair, the NCAA (or is it E$PN) have scheduled the overall #1 seed's match to be the earlier semifinal game, on a workday, during working hours for their home fans.  The Friday 3PM PDT game should be over before 5PM PDT.

For some reason, the first semifinal game has been moved an hour earlier than in the previous two years.  The second semifinal game is at the approximate same time as in the previous years.

Stanford gets something like 67 hours from the end of the Elite Eight to the semifinals;  UConn gets an extra 26 hours.
The winner of the Stanford-So. Carolina game will get about 46 hours to the championship game
while the winner of the UConn-Az game will get about 42.5 hours.

(In 2019, the WBB Final Four had a similar schedule BUT an hour later for the first semifinal game.  Overall #1 Baylor had the earlier game on Friday (4PM PDT) and the fans of their opponent Oregon had to leave work early to see the game.  In 2018, the overall #1 got the later semifinal game.   In 2018-2021, UConn got the later game.)

Note that the first semifinal game starts at 3PM PDT for Stanford, or would start at 3PM MST for Arizona, one of the two was going to have this problem.

I am mightily irritated by this.  I will be in the middle of a routine medical procedure, sedated, during the game.  It never occurred to me that a final four game would be played during the regular 40 hour work week.  I'm not even sure if I knew or thought there would be a final four when I made this appointment.  At least my stress levels will be low.