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June 18, 2007

Scheduling Issues For December

Filed under: Basketball,Non-con,Schedule — Chas @ 6:48 am

This is apparently the latest on the possible Pitt-Duke game at Madison Square Garden (Insider subs):

Pitt is still trying to move three games, notably Dayton, so it can play Duke Dec. 20 in New York City. The Dayton game is scheduled for Dec. 22 in Dayton, which would mean Pitt would go from playing Duke in New York on Thursday to traveling Friday to Dayton to playing Saturday in Dayton. The chances of Pitt wanting to do that are zilch.

So basically, the game is still in the air until Pitt can get the other games shuffled. The other possible issue is the fact that the Big East will be playing 18 games plus Pitt has a February game at Washington. That means the rest of the non-con will have to be done in November and December. Very little wiggle room for make-up dates.

The December 20 game would likely be a main ESPN game. The only other competition for the WWLS would be the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego that night which I’m guessing wouldn’t start much before 9 pm Eastern.





Interestingly enough, the Poinsetta Bowl lists the 2007 P. Bowl start time as 6:00PM

http://www.poinsettiabowl.net

Comment by ChrisA 06.18.07 @ 9:21 am

Um, Chris. The game is in San Diego. 6pm out there would be 9 pm Eastern

Comment by Chas 06.18.07 @ 9:30 am

but.. but.. factoring in um, daylight savings and uh, considering the shift from um, the Julian Calendar; and uh…awe spit.

Comment by ChrisA 06.18.07 @ 10:40 am

Chas-

Thanks for the update… A few of my old high school buddies are Duke alums, so I’ve been wanting this to go down for awhile.

Comment by Greg in Columbia 06.18.07 @ 11:40 am

[…] Looks like Pitt has had luck in reshuffling a bunch of games to finally make that Pitt-Duke game at Madison Square Garden a reality (Insider subs). The Pitt-Duke game is finally getting closer to becoming a reality on Dec. 20 in New York City. Pitt needed Dayton to move its Dec. 22 game against the Panthers to another date. Pitt didn’t want to play Duke in New York City with one day prepare and travel for Dayton. Dayton has finally relented and is willing to move the game to Dec. 29 in Dayton, but that means more games have to be moved. Dayton is scheduled to play Lipscomb on that day, and Pitt was scheduled to host Lafayette on Dec. 28. Those games are being moved to make it acceptable to all parties. Pitt is also moving a game with Buffalo on Dec. 19 because of the Duke game. […]


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