Scheduling Question

[ErickJD08]

Does anyone think MU will ever play Indiana?  How far in advance are nonconferences games scheduled?  I think someone would be interested in hosting it for good advertising money.  Odds... thoughts...

[muwarrior87]

as long as Crean and Buzz are the coaches at the schools, I'll say zero percent chance of this happening.

[HoopsMalone]

I doubt the Indiana fans will care very much at all about playing Marquette beyond the fact that it would be a game against a team from another major conference.  Honestly, I don't know how much more I would care either.  It would have been fun to see the players Crean coached go against him.  It would be fun to see how the Marquette crowd would re-act to Crean's return to the BC, but otherwise not so much.

Since UW is a Big Ten team, I would imagine that the AD would have to have a very compelling reason to play another Big Ten team in order to have a balanced schedule.  I think, with our big Chicago alumni base, that the only Big Ten matchup which would be extraordinarily lucrative is a series against Illinois.  It would be most fun over Christmas break at the United Center as a "neutral court" game to give our team and school face time in Chicago and give Buzz a talking point when recruiting kids out of Chicago.

[ErickJD08]

I doubt the Indiana fans will care very much at all about playing Marquette beyond the fact that it would be a game against a team from another major conference.  Honestly, I don't know how much more I would care either.  It would have been fun to see the players Crean coached go against him.  It would be fun to see how the Marquette crowd would re-act to Crean's return to the BC, but otherwise not so much.

Since UW is a Big Ten team, I would imagine that the AD would have to have a very compelling reason to play another Big Ten team in order to have a balanced schedule.  I think, with our big Chicago alumni base, that the only Big Ten matchup which would be extraordinarily lucrative is a series against Illinois.  It would be most fun over Christmas break at the United Center as a "neutral court" game to give our team and school face time in Chicago and give Buzz a talking point when recruiting kids out of Chicago.

I would love an Illinois game... A TON of annoying Illini fans.

[Buzz4Prez]

I will say this much, you will never see a scheduled MU v. Indiana game. However, if they are both good enough to make the NCAA's I wouldn't doubt that the committee would create that matchup in a heartbeat... they love those situations.

[Skatastrophy]

I'd bet that we will face Indiana in the NCAA tourney before we schedule them intentionally. 

[77ncaachamps]

I'd bet that we will face Indiana in the NCAA tourney before we schedule them intentionally. 

OR in a pre-season tourney.

Don't count out the possibility of both programs rising to the point that a matchup MAY be inevitable, as the networks love subplots and hot teams.

[dbwarriors]

u of i vs. mu would be a fun match-up...as it would have been for the past 10+ yrs.  weber from milwaukee area, grew up watching al mcguire's teams, etc.  the hold-up is all the contractual stuff these days with regards to teams, conferences, tv, yadda, yadda, yadda.