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[WM Wolverine]

M, ND & Purdue have mostly been replaced by ACC teams. Sounds like a big downgrade to me.

[The Oracle]

More wins though.

[WM Wolverine]

My thought as well, seems the Domers want to dumb down their schedule plus have the ability to have ACC schedule them games in October, November where they've had difficultly filling home dates...

I don't blame the B10 for not wanting to have a tough OOC opponent in October, November. I think eventually we'll see ND play at least 1 B10 opponent a year.

[Jeff Buchanan]

My brother in law is a big OU softball fan so I've been watching the regionals with him.

Unranked Michigan just unexpectedly beat 9th ranked ASU, in back to back games to advance to the super regionals. They came from the losers bracket after ASU sent them there with a win in thier first contest.

ASU was expected to win the region. So much for that.

Both Nebraska and Minnesota from the BIG have also advanced. Minnesota was the only ranked BIG team. M and Neb are unexpected participants in the super regional. Wisconsin was also ranked and unexpecdly lost today and is out.

[entropy]

UNL had to win 4 games in 23 hrs to advance. They now have to play bama in bama.

[*JD*]

Well done.

http://sherman-ave.com/if-every-big-10-school-were-a-game-of-thrones-character/

[Dr. Strangelove]

Many here don't care about the financial side but...

Big Ten reaches agreement with Time Warner and Cablevision over the NJ/NYC market.

http://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/index.ssf/2014/05/big_ten_network_strikes_deals_with_time_warner_cablevision_for_local_distribution.html

Appears BTN will be on basic cable there now since I know both previously offered it as part of their 'sports package' which cost extra. Also expected to reach an agreement with Comcast soon.

[entropy]

JonNyatawa: Announced attendance today: 10,424. That's a #B1G tournament single-day record ... Full tourney record going down 2mrw

Attendance yesterday - 10,424

Overall tournament record - 12,219

[*JD*]

For what?

[lineygoblue]

I think he's referring to the B1G Baseball tournament.

[entropy]

yes.. baseball

[Tony G]

every time you turn around there's some B1G championship...

[entropy]

still surprising that the best BIG attendence EVER for the baseball tourney is only 12K.. for the entire 4 days

[THE_WIZARD_]

About the same as for the SEC Hockey Tournament...

[hodgkal]

Remember when baseball was the national pastime? Probably not except for us old farts.