Does the UF game really tip off at 11 AM?
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Makes no sense. Must be tied to money in some way. Maybe ESPN is trying to squeeze in more games. They may even have a 10:30 p.m. East coast game.
Noon is the earliest I can remember. I'm sure there have been earlier tipoffs but I can't see a reason unless there is some other major event taking place.
Every single decision that the NCAA, the conferences, the schools, and the TV networks have made for the last 40 years have been tied to money in some way.
I'm glad I saw this! I probably would've checked around noon thinking it was evening being a big game.
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As a CST person, I am loving it, like when the Chiefs play a game in Germany and I'm watching NFL at 8:30 a.m. I can get my Cats on early and then focus on the rest of the day. Go Cats!!!
Set game to record, sleep in till noon, start game and fast forward through commercials and half time, catch up to the live game with about 5 mins left.
The SECT game against Georgia after the tornado the night before tipped off around 8 or 9 I think. But I don't remember any game being originally scheduled for earlier than this.
9am in AZ for us - lets get the day started with a victory before noon
Wait what ? I don't even get up until 11 AM ET on Saturday WTF is this
I have to set alarm for 7am up here in Alaska. I don’t even get up that early for work lol.
The answer is the NFL. ESPN is showing Cleveland at Baltimore at 4:30pm and has NFL countdown at 3pm. The normal noon and 2pm games wouldn't leave them enough time to have a pregame show and guarantee all the college games are over before the NFL game starts. So everything got shifted up an hour.
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I actually LOVE that this game is an 11AM game.
Someone can fact check me, but it seems/feels to me like we NEVER lose Saturday games during the day at Rupp. The exception of this being Gonzaga last year which shocked me, but so many day games on Saturday in recent years we have played unreal. Even some on the road like @ TN last year, @ Auburn last year, @ Arkansas, etc. - sometimes I just feel like we play better during the day on Saturday than we do at night lately.
Seems like late Saturday night games we have lost too often late in Cal's tenure (Kansas, Tennessee, Florida last year, etc.), but so many Saturday afternoon games against the likes of Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, etc. in recent years have all been great performances for us. It would be fun for someone to put together records of day tip-offs vs. night tip-offs but I am happy that it's an early game.
Someone can fact check me, but it seems/feels to me like we NEVER lose Saturday games during the day at Rupp. The exception of this being Gonzaga last year which shocked me, but so many day games on Saturday in recent years we have played unreal. Even some on the road like @ TN last year, @ Auburn last year, @ Arkansas, etc. - sometimes I just feel like we play better during the day on Saturday than we do at night lately.
Seems like late Saturday night games we have lost too often late in Cal's tenure (Kansas, Tennessee, Florida last year, etc.), but so many Saturday afternoon games against the likes of Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, etc. in recent years have all been great performances for us. It would be fun for someone to put together records of day tip-offs vs. night tip-offs but I am happy that it's an early game.
11 is rough. My liver isnt going to like me tomorrow.
Technically, and I deserve a slap for this, I think some of the Alaska games may have started at 1:00 a.m. or 12: 30.
@JPScott do you know? I looked on your site but could not find start times. It seems the Seton Hall game was in the middle of the night. That's the only game we ever lost in Alaska. And they went on to be National Runner-Up.
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When I was stationed in England 9pm games came on at 2am. Shit was rough but I got up for every one.
@oldsports_ please don't take this the wrong way, but having to wake up at 6:00 in Hawaii? I don't feel sorry for you.
👽NFL is way more important to the TV networks than a college basketball game most national sports fan don't care about.
The SEC or the schools couldn't do anything if they tried. It doesn't matter if they're okay with it or not. The game got pushed up an hour from the normal earliest start time of noon due to the NFL. Nothing on TV is more important than the NFL in this country.
UK/Florida followed by UT at Arkansas and then the NFL.
I don't know why that makes people think ESPN hates UK. I like the early start. I can watch and then do other things with the rest of my day.
I don't know why that makes people think ESPN hates UK. I like the early start. I can watch and then do other things with the rest of my day.
Is there a reason you thought it didn't?
I feel like those Alaska games started at around 11pm Eastern time.
If it was football, that would be different. Despite the fact the SEC has improved, basketball doesn't move the needle.
They may have and finished early in the morning.
Below is the most important game ever played in Alaska. Cincinnati before Kenyon Martin got hurt versus Duke for the championship. All three of Duke's games started at midnight Eastern Time. I can't find Kentucky times. That was Duke's only loss up until the championship.
| November 28* 12:00 a.m., ESPN | No. 1 | vs. No. 15 Cincinnati Great Alaska Shootout |
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I don't list game times on my website (beyond the current season only where I keep a hyperlinked schedule).
But I have been collecting times and once I've got nearly all of them will likely add that to the boxscores (adding radio and TV information may also happen someday but that's a lot more difficult and may not ever be added).
Just so you know for the purpose of the standardization and to make it easier, I adopted the use of reporting Local Lexington time (rather than the local time of a game played in a different time zone). However for the purpose of data integrity I still am keeping the date of the game when it was played (so for example a late-night game played in Hawaii the date is when it was played locally, not the date in Lexington).
So games in Alaska and Hawaii etc. I report the local Lexington time but the date is still the day it was in Alaska or Hawaii etc. For the purpose of an 'early' game, I don't count those as 'early in the morning' as much as 'late in the evening'.
Having said all that, the earliest game all-time in the morning were three games played in the SEC Tournament in Louisville at 10:00 AM. These were 5-MAR-1949 vs. Tennessee, 3-MAR-1951 vs. Georgia Tech and 1-MAR-1952 vs. Tennessee. All wins and all in the tournament semi-finals. The winner went on to play the Championship game later that evening.
This 11:00 AM game vs. Florida is the earliest start of any UK basketball game held in Lexington (of the data I have which goes back to the mid-1930's).
Note that mention was made of the UK-Georgia tornado game in Atlanta. I believe that game started at noon Eastern time.
A 9 am MST basketball game is by far the weirdest I've experienced. And for those on the west coast, 8 am for a game that's not even a tournament situation...
But hey, this helps with my recent effort to trim back on beer during UK games. No way I'm having anything this early!
But hey, this helps with my recent effort to trim back on beer during UK games. No way I'm having anything this early!
This 1000%. That's 830 for me on central time so not as bad as eastern folks have it but still 1030 to 1045 by the time it's done.
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