What Vegas is telling us is this is the only relevant game next week… it is the only one with opening odds in college basketball FOR THE WHOLE WEEK so far.
The closest I will get to an ideological comment on here is that not letting any games be on Election Day was kind of a mistake. So on the first night of the season, you can’t get any decent games at decent times because of the MNF juggernaut. And I don’t really know why, but teams then avoid Wednesday. And then there aren’t any good games until Friday night or Saturday or Sunday when they’re all competing with Football eyeballs.
Seems to me that folks might really like to have some election night counter programming.
None of this matters that much, just yet another example of nobody really being in charge of college hoops.
Edit - first day of the season was perfect timing for an ACC game, but coaches were such primadonnas about that. Like god forbid you take an ACC loss. You only have 30 other opportunities to make up for it…
What is the most inexplicable matchup of Week 1? Denver at Stanford at 1PM Pacific (as @dave92 noted) is probably the winner, but FDU and Binghamton going down to Coral Gables for buy games is high up there too. Or maybe BC signing up for a very hard neutral site game against VCU as Game 2 of the season?
Louisville is my most intriguing ACC team this year. Also makes me wonder if it means the league is in rough shape if plug and play roster can finish top 4
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