interesting move!

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketba...nge-series

LOVE IT

a normal year would look something like.....
Georgetown @ Ohio St
Michigan @ Villanova
Creighton @ Iowa
Illinois @ Marquette
Providence @ Maryland
Minnesota @ Xavier
Butler @ Northwestern
Penn St @ Seton Hall
with St John's and DePaul out.

year 2 something like
Wisconsin @ Georgetown
Villanova @ Michigan St
Indiana @ Creighton
Marquette @ Minnesota
Nebraska @ DePaul
Maryland @ St John's
Marquette @ Purdue
Seton Hall @ Illinois
with Providence and Xavier out

From a B1G perspective, i expect st. johns to get a lot of games with big time programs that have large nyc alumni bases, in order to get that nyc push expect the johnies to have a large dose of um and ohio state

I think the challenge is very good. Not quite the 5 star home run some think it is- but still very good.

Love that our schedules in general are getting upgraded. It's necessary after the split- just not enough juice in conference play to be able to count on that solely to get in the tourney(see PC this year as a prime example). The key will be now actually winning enough games OOC to make it count. One good thing- you could go like Georgetown this year OOC 8-4 if you go 10-8 or better in conference- and be ok.