POLL: Would earlier be better for the B12 MBB Tourney?

[diaclone]

Never. I am excited that the women's Big 12 tournament is going back to KC in 2020.

 

[DeereClone]

The only thing that makes sense about it for the B1G is that a bunch of other mid-major conferences play theirs this week too.

The Big 12 Tournament as it is, in every facet, is set up perfectly and should not be tampered with.

The only thing the Big 12 needs to do different from a scheduling standpoint is move the SEC challenge to December.

 

[CycloneErik]

**** no.

December conference games are bad enough already. In fact, we need to ditch the move of the SEC challenge game to january that pushed an additional one of our conference games into december, costing us a lot of our home court advantage with the students gone (and potentially our fans out of town for a bowl game). That move was entirely beneficial to the SEC, giving them basketball worth watching in january when we already had games worth watching.

My only complaint is that I can only hit "agree" one time.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Nothing screams "March Madness" like the Big 10 playing in MSG the first few days of March. Now a handful of people want to emulate that.

Moving the championship game from Sunday back to Saturday was an excellent idea because it forced the committee to pay attention to our championship game. Previously our game would end so late on Sunday that whatever happened on Sunday wouldn't necessarily reflect in the NCAA Tournament (and then the committee would lie about it). By moving it to Saturday our champion had been declared and the committee was forced to deal with it. By moving back one week, you give the committee enough time to forget about what happened, because then you have all of the conference tournaments going at the same time.

Having our championship game on Saturday is perfect and we should not deviate from it.

 

[zmanzbo]

God no

 

[awd4cy]

Nope. Starting conference play early for the SEC challenge already sucks. Also the week and a half until the start of the tournament is too much time off

Agreed. Really wish that could go back to the beginning of December like it was before.

 

[CloneGuy8]

No. This past week was for the midmajors. Having up this upcoming week works well.

 

[cyclones500]

A firm No.

Big 12 moving it up a day so title game is prime-time Saturday instead of Sunday afternoon was a smart move, let's not try to un-fix that.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I think you've set the record for the most lopsided poll in internet history.

 

[surly]

Big 12 Tournament Odds (via OddsShark)

Ku (+200; bet $100 to win $200)
West Virginia (+350)
Texas Tech (+400)
K-State (+700)
TCU (+1000)
Baylor (+1200)
Oklahoma (+2000)
Texas (+2000)
Oklahoma State (+2000)
Iowa State (+2500)

 

[VeloClone]

I have to confess that I only voted "no" because there was no "**** no!" option.

Remember back in the day when the Big 12 had the ultimate stage with that last championship game on Sunday just hours before the brackets were announced? I thought it was foolish to give that up. This would be just incomprehensibly asinine.