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From Adam Zagoria.

.@BIGEASTMBB teams in the Gavitt Games:

Butler
Creighton
Georgetown
Marquette
Providence
St. John’s
Villanova
Xavier

Byes:
DePaul
Seton Hall
UConn (out this year)

Iowa almost has to be at Creighton.

I’m guessing SJU vs Rutgers based on attempts to limit travel.....

sju88grad wrote:I’m guessing SJU vs Rutgers based on attempts to limit travel.....

RU fans are convinced they're playing Nova

St. John's is getting a home game on campus in this. I had assumed Rutgers as well.

From Zagoria this AM:

Big Ten in the Gavitt Games:

Iowa
Michigan State
Purdue
Rutgers
Indiana
Wisconsin
Maryland
1 other

My predictions:

Iowa at Creighton
Marquette at Michigan State
Illinois at Xavier
Providence at Rutgers
Indiana at Georgetown
St. John's at Maryland
Purdue at Villanova
Butler at Wisconsin

I'm still really shocked Nova is in the GG, this pretty much wraps up our scheduling for the season.

20 BE games
4 Big 5 games
3 Exempt tourney games(+1?)
3 Texas, UVa, GG

that's 30 games for sure with another possible home game from the exempt tourney
so basically that's 1 cupcake for the season

Westbrook#36 wrote:I'm still really shocked Nova is in the GG, this pretty much wraps up our scheduling for the season.

20 BE games
4 Big 5 games
3 Exempt tourney games(+1?)
3 Texas, UVA, GG

that's 30 games for sure with another possible home game from the exempt tourney
so basically that's 1 cupcake for the season

Those 4 Big 5 games are basically cupcake games. But yea, I can see your point. Its just the way it is now, if you had to make Nova's schedule I am not sure you would trade a cupcake game for any of the ones you have listed.

DudeAnon wrote:

Westbrook#36 wrote:I'm still really shocked Nova is in the GG, this pretty much wraps up our scheduling for the season.

20 BE games
4 Big 5 games
3 Exempt tourney games(+1?)
3 Texas, UVA, GG

that's 30 games for sure with another possible home game from the exempt tourney
so basically that's 1 cupcake for the season

Those 4 Big 5 games are basically cupcake games. But yea, I can see your point. Its just the way it is now, if you had to make Nova's schedule I am not sure you would trade a cupcake game for any of the ones you have listed.

Yeah, no way in hell are Big 5 games anything close to typical cupcakes, 2 of them are away and all of them are their superbowl, try again. The point is that being in both the B12 challenge and GG kills almost all of our schedule flexibility with 20 BE games.