"Permanent" rivals announced for basketball until OUT leaves

[CoKane]

Kansas/Kansas St
Oklahoma/Oklahoma St
Texas/Texas Tech
Baylor/TCU
Cincinnati/West Virginia
Houston/UCF
Iowa St/BYU

Thoughts? I wanted Oklahoma State personally but I get it. BYU is a good draw. They'll be a Q1 road win every year and a good game to get at home as well.

 

[isufbcurt]

Stupid!!!

 

[CoKane]

Stupid!!!

Yeah, not what I'd prefer either but ah well. We could have drawn UCF, which would have been a lot worse. No history and their basketball isn't usually very good. I'm sure these will change once we add the Pac 12 teams

 

[isufbcurt]

Yeah, not what I'd prefer either but ah well. We could have drawn UCF, which would have been a lot worse. No history and their basketball isn't usually very good. I'm sure these will change once we add the Pac 12 teams

I think the idea of "permanent rivals" is dumb, it's forcing a made up rivalry.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Looks regionally decided to me. I’m cool with it as I’m excited about BYU joining.

 

[Prone2Clone]

Queue the Ejim gif.

 

[CoKane]

I think the idea of "permanent rivals" is dumb, it's forcing a made up rivalry.

Only ours is really the forced one though. Everyone else fits in. I guess UCF/Houston is a bit of a stretch but they've been in the same conference forever.

 

[JUKEBOX]

Only ours is really the forced one though. Everyone else fits in. I guess UCF/Houston is a bit of a stretch but they've been in the same conference forever.

I thought we played BYU in basketball several years ago, and it was a pretty good game.

I think they might be rivals with TCU kind-of, but most of these matchups seem to be regional. I think it pretty much makes sense. I suppose if they swapped that it would be TCU vs. BYU and Iowa State vs. Baylor as the rivalries lol

 

[I@ST1]

Link to this announcement?

 

[JUKEBOX]

oh yeah they were all upset because of this:

 

[ClonerJams]

If we didn't get a Big 8 rival, its a good draw. Both have good homecourt advantages - should be some good games between the two of us.

 

[CoKane]

Link to this announcement?

Also, we're staying at 18 conference games. So we'll face everyone once, BYU twice for sure, and then draw 3 more teams as our double ups

 

[2speedy1]

Also, we're staying at 18 conference games. So we'll face everyone once, BYU twice for sure, and then draw 3 more teams as our double ups

Meh why force the "rivals" for a year or two, just do the "randomish" draw for all the games outside the first round.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

Kansas/Kansas St
Oklahoma/Oklahoma St
Texas/Texas Tech
Baylor/TCU
Cincinnati/West Virginia
Houston/UCF
Iowa St/BYU

Thoughts? I wanted Oklahoma State personally but I get it. BYU is a good draw. They'll be a Q1 road win every year and a good game to get at home as well.

Does this mean we’d never play them on a Sunday?

 

[awd4cy]

Remember when we completely **** on BYU in Hilton and Clyburn dropped like 32? That was fun too.

 

[NATEizKING]

Does this mean we’d never play them on a Sunday?

We never play Sunday anyway, even B12 Championship is Sat.

 

[qwerty]

Looks like it is setup so once OuT leaves, Okie St just slides over to Taco Tech and everyone else stays the same.

 

[heitclone]

So with 12 teams and 18 league games, we will still play 7 teams h/h every year right? There doesn't seem to be much need for protected rivals. If we have to have them though, my preference would be getting matched up with the old big 8 schools. BYU wouldn't be at the top of my list but its a solid matchup.

 

[jsb]

Gross.

 

[DeereClone]

Idk why Texas or OU would get a “protected rival.”