Wednesday's Heavy Slate of Games 12-2

[milksteak]

6:00 - Hartford @ 23 Providence, FSN - Don Orsillo, Tarik Turner
FS Ariz.+, FS Det.+, FS Florida, FS MW+, FS North, FS Ohio, FS South, FS West, MASN2, MSG Plus, OSN, Root Sports NW, Root Sports PIT, Root Sports RM

6:00 - Butler @ 17 Cincinnati, CBS SN- Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas

6:00- St. John's @ Fordham (no tv)

6:00 - Seton Hall @ George Washington, ASN-Dave Armstrong, Tim Scarborough
Altitude2, Comcast Network, CSN California, Cox Sports

6:30 (Women’s) #1UCONN at DePaul- Tim Brando & LaChina Robinsin

7:00 - Grambling @ Marquette, FS2 - Jim Levering, Stephen Bardo

7:00 - DePaul @ UIC, CSN Chicago+ & ESPN3- Jordan Bernfield, David Kaplan

8:00 - Arizona State @ Creighton, CBS SN- Dave Ryan, Bob Wenzel

**10 PM- Gonzaga at Washington State (FS1) Aaron Goldsmith, Steve Lavin**

Times are Central Time Zone

Butler@Cincinnati
SJU@Fordham
Seton Hall@George Washington
Grambling@Marquette
DePaul@UIC
ASU@Creighton

3-3. Boy, I'm awfully pessimistic about tonight.

[milksteak]

Jet,

How much do you know about Illinois-Chicago since you believe DePaul has no chance to win tonight?

If I am a betting individual, then I would take DePaul to win tonight.....maybe easily. But NO guarantees.

I will wait for NovaBall's negative response!

UIC is 310th in KenPom. Let's just hope to God it doesn't happen.

[xavierfano8]

I'll be at the Butler game tonight. Hope you all pull out the W!

[DanofXav76]

Can't wait for the Butler-UC game tonight. I would expect to see a good amount of Blue in the stands tonight. Will be rooting like crazy for my Brother Bulldogs!!

[Jet915]

Jet,

How much do you know about Illinois-Chicago since you believe DePaul has no chance to win tonight?

If I am a betting individual, then I would take DePaul to win tonight.....maybe easily. But NO guarantees.

I will wait for NovaBall's negative response!

UIC is 310th in KenPom. Let's just hope to God it doesn't happen.

I know UIC sucks but its a road game and its Depaul....ive seen Depaul a few times already and they havent looked good at all.

[HoopDreams]

DemonLS,

The funniest part about this board to me is listening to the delusional Creighton fans talk about their program and bash DePaul.

I'm not sure where the arrogance comes from considering the program has one Sweet 16 appearance in the last 40 years. The Vietnam War was still going on the last time Creighton's basketball team made any noise in March.

[FriarJ]

6:00 - Hartford @ 23 Providence, FSN - Don Orsillo, Tarik Turner
FS Ariz.+, FS Det.+, FS Florida, FS MW+, FS North, FS Ohio, FS South, FS West, MASN2, MSG Plus, OSN, Root Sports NW, Root Sports PIT, Root Sports RM

6:00 - Butler @ 17 Cincinnati, CBS SN- Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas

6:00- St. John's @ Fordham (no tv)

6:00 - Seton Hall @ George Washington, ASN-Dave Armstrong, Tim Scarborough
Altitude2, Comcast Network, CSN California, Cox Sports

6:30 (Women’s) #1UCONN at DePaul- Tim Brando & LaChina Robinsin

7:00 - Grambling @ Marquette, FS2 - Jim Levering, Stephen Bardo

7:00 - DePaul @ UIC, CSN Chicago+ & ESPN3- Jordan Bernfield, David Kaplan

8:00 - Arizona State @ Creighton, CBS SN- Dave Ryan, Bob Wenzel

**10 PM- Gonzaga at Washington State (FS1) Aaron Goldsmith, Steve Lavin**

Times are Central Time Zone

Butler@Cincinnati
SJU@Fordham
Seton Hall@George Washington
Grambling@Marquette
DePaul@UIC
ASU@Creighton

3-3. Boy, I'm awfully pessimistic about tonight.

I think you missed a game, there are 7

[DudeAnon]

Wow, a great schedule of games tonight. I will be keeping an eye on Creighton vs ASU, SH vs GW and SJU vs Fordham (i am a sucker for the Johnnies).

But the highlight is obviously Butler vs Cincinnati.

I know Cincy is ranked and putting up impressive numbers, but other than GW they really haven't played anyone. It will be an interesting game. This will be the first game of both Butler and UC I have watched all year. CantWait.jpeg

[David HD]

UIC is awful. Their offense is pathetic, and they haven't exactly been playing good teams. DePaul may not be the best team, but they should win that one.

The A10's media deal is garbage. I mean, it's mind numbingly pathetic. The amount of money each school gets is low, and the exposure of the league is arguably lower. Just to give you an idea, I believe the Missouri Valley schools get twice as much money per school per year as the A10 currently gets. And, for two NYC teams to be playing and for the game to not even be on ANYWHERE other than the stream is kind of ridiculous.

I believe it states in their deal that they cannot play on primary networks. It's actually in the contract. In other words, NBC, ABC, or CBS cannot air the games. Not even the local stations. It has to be on NBC Sports or CBS Sports, which are premium channels that most people don't get or don't watch. The reason for this from the network's point of view is, I guess, to strong arm the fans into subscribing to the premium channels. I like a lot of the programs in that conference, but I would be hesitant to schedule them home and home. At the very least, I'd write it into the contract that the game must be made available on the first tier of the TV deal, meaning that it's one of the 14 games that's on ESPN, or no dice. They can either come play you at home so the game's on TV, or get a better TV deal, or just not play. The conference has some good programs that are in decent sized media markets. It makes no sense that their deal is so bad.

[Westbrook#36]

You know I just wished that DePaul's athletic department, AD, coaches, and players showed as much passion and commitment as some of their posters on here.