[2006alum]

While the games are in the same order in 2026, they have been moved 2 hours earlier than last year (11AM EST vs 1PM EST).
I don't know what reason/excuse there might be for that, but I do know which two teams it impacts the most.

At least one of those two teams had to schedule their final regular season game two hours earlier than in 2025 and reschedule their Senior celebration to before that game.   In 2025, Stanford had just 71.5 hours and 2700+ miles between games, resulting in #11 seed Stanford being upset by the #14 seed.  In 2026, wiith just 67 hours between one game and the next, of which about 5 hours would be spent on a plane, I am forced to believe that Stanford winning the first game is a long shot, no matter how well they play on the West Coast.

I'm afraid I'm also expecting that worst tomorrow morning. Tonight Tara said that they had to be at the gym 2 hours before the game, which mean waking up 2 hours before that, which will be 4 am body clock time. I'll be thrilled if we can escape with a W tomorrow, no matter who's the higher seed or has the better record.

[2006alum]

While the games are in the same order in 2026, they have been moved 2 hours earlier than last year (11AM EST vs 1PM EST).
I don't know what reason/excuse there might be for that, but I do know which two teams it impacts the most.

At least one of those two teams had to schedule their final regular season game two hours earlier than in 2025 and reschedule their Senior celebration to before that game.   In 2025, Stanford had just 71.5 hours and 2700+ miles between games, resulting in #11 seed Stanford being upset by the #14 seed.  In 2026, wiith just 67 hours between one game and the next, of which about 5 hours would be spent on a plane, I am forced to believe that Stanford winning the first game is a long shot, no matter how well they play on the West Coast.

I'm afraid I'm also expecting that worst tomorrow morning. Tonight Tara said that they had to be at the gym 2 hours before the game, which mean waking up 2 hours before that, which will be 4 am body clock time. I'll be thrilled if we can escape with a W tomorrow, no matter who's the higher seed or has the better record.