https://bigten.org/mbb/article/60009/

Each school gets 3 opponents twice, 20 conference games total.

The four Pacific schools play the other Pacific teams twice.

Defending national champion Michigan gets Ohio State, Michigan State, and Minnesota. Are these basketball rivals or football rivals? OSU and MSU make sense but I would have given them a bigger basketball opponent for #3 like Illinois (no I'm not biased, we did make the Final Four!) or Purdue.

Every non Pacific school either travels to both LA schools or hosts them both.

The Mick Cronin complaint tour:
Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers

I expect to hear again ... "We've seen the Statue of Liberty twice in three weeks!"

Which teams play who twice can be debated, but this is the format that should be used for the 20 game conference schedule. Allow the west coast teams yo play H&H and the rest to play up to 3 rivals H&H. Then everyone gets 1 west coast trip annually either to LA or to the PNW to reduce travel costs.

For M vs tOSU in basketball, they're going after ticket sales. One or both teams can be pretty bad, but the game will sell tickets.

(05-15-2026 11:43 AM)SeaBlue Wrote:  For M vs tOSU in basketball, they're going after ticket sales. One or both teams can be pretty bad, but the game will sell tickets.

I don't disagree with that one or UM/MSU. I thought the Little Brown Jug wasn't necessary. I mean is the rivalry even that big in football for Michigan fans let alone men's basketball?

(05-15-2026 11:43 AM)SeaBlue Wrote:  For M vs tOSU in basketball, they're going after ticket sales. One or both teams can be pretty bad, but the game will sell tickets.

Mostly from the football fans who don't know a basketball from a hockey puck but think that the rivalry is deep in every sport.

Personally...I just don't feel it in basketball. I want to beat y'all but the programs never manage to be good at the same time.