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Still doesn’t explain why they ran the games Wed-Sat.  It would have made a lot more sense to run them Thurs - Sun or even have the play-in Friday, most of the games on Saturday and Sunday, and the championship Monday night.

BC

I think you like to complain. I don’t think our team or coaches are complaining about having extra time to rest and prepare before the opening rounds

I’ve been to almost every Pac12 WBB tourney the past decade. It’s always two weekends before the NCAA first round and the weekend before the the men’s Pac12 tourney. The championship game is always on Sunday. This is not some new phenomenon to those who actually attend and follow women’s college basketball. The Pac12 Wbb championship Sunday game was the same day as the Big10, ACC, SEC conference tourney finals.

I was also wrong.  The tournament did give the finalists a day to rest between the semi-final match on Friday and the final on Sunday (good).  And yes, the flip side of compressing the games is that there is more time to rest before the NCAA tournament.

But still, by pursuing a tournament that runs from Wed. to Sunday, they unnecessarily compressed the schedule at the end of the year.  Running the tournament Friday through Sunday with the championship on Tuesday would still have given teams plenty of rest, and wouldn’t have forced the end of year crunch the last two weeks of the season.  That’s not a complaint on behalf of the team, since teams with a play-in game were even more adversely affected; it’s a complaint on behalf of the players.  To the extent that we pay lip service to academics and athlete well-being, maybe we should schedule accordingly?

BC

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Still doesn’t explain why they ran the games Wed-Sat.  It would have made a lot more sense to run them Thurs - Sun or even have the play-in Friday, most of the games on Saturday and Sunday, and the championship Monday night.

BC

I think you like to complain. I don’t think our team or coaches are complaining about having extra time to rest and prepare before the opening rounds

I’ve been to almost every Pac12 WBB tourney the past decade. It’s always two weekends before the NCAA first round and the weekend before the the men’s Pac12 tourney. The championship game is always on Sunday. This is not some new phenomenon to those who actually attend and follow women’s college basketball. The Pac12 Wbb championship Sunday game was the same day as the Big10, ACC, SEC conference tourney finals.

I was also wrong.  The tournament did give the finalists a day to rest between the semi-final match on Friday and the final on Sunday (good).  And yes, the flip side of compressing the games is that there is more time to rest before the NCAA tournament.

But still, by pursuing a tournament that runs from Wed. to Sunday, they unnecessarily compressed the schedule at the end of the year.  Running the tournament Friday through Sunday with the championship on Tuesday would still have given teams plenty of rest, and wouldn’t have forced the end of year crunch the last two weeks of the season.  That’s not a complaint on behalf of the team, since teams with a play-in game were even more adversely affected; it’s a complaint on behalf of the players.  To the extent that we pay lip service to academics and athlete well-being, maybe we should schedule accordingly?

BC