Take always from Day 1.

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I am fully on board with the NYE Big East Tip Off Marathon every year!

I wonder if the reason the three newcomers got home games on the first day was for precisely the reason of showing off the new arenas to the rest of the Big East fans who were tuned in. I'm sure there was some level of curiosity about what the new schools bring to the table facility wise.

The fact Butler and Xavier owning their arenas surely helped.

I'm not sure I'd be laying praise to the schedule maker. Sure we start with three at home, but then we pay for it with some long droughts between home games. and as othera have noted, these three at home are during our holiday break!!! We even sold a Holiday Break package so those are general fans sitting in a lot fo the student seats right now.

Speaking as a Xavier fan, for us it IS a big step up from playing in such mega arenas as Rose Hill Gym, Tom Golas Garage (I mean Arena), Hagan Arena, and similar sized facilities at St Bonaventure and George Washington. (AT lease Dusquene started taking us to CONSOL instead of using their small on camous facility) Oh, and we have had years where we thought the schedule maker had a sick sadistic sense of humor -@ Fordham on Thursday followed by @St Louis Saturday?

And of the nine home games for Xavier, only 4 are when school is in session. (Three home games are over Christmas break- SJU, Butler, Marq and two over spring break- Creighton and Nova.)

[XUFan09]

I am fully on board with the NYE Big East Tip Off Marathon every year!

I wonder if the reason the three newcomers got home games on the first day was for precisely the reason of showing off the new arenas to the rest of the Big East fans who were tuned in. I'm sure there was some level of curiosity about what the new schools bring to the table facility wise.

The fact Butler and Xavier owning their arenas surely helped.

I'm not sure I'd be laying praise to the schedule maker. Sure we start with three at home, but then we pay for it with some long droughts between home games. and as othera have noted, these three at home are during our holiday break!!! We even sold a Holiday Break package so those are general fans sitting in a lot fo the student seats right now.

Speaking as a Xavier fan, for us it IS a big step up from playing in such mega arenas as Rose Hill Gym, Tom Golas Garage (I mean Arena), Hagan Arena, and similar sized facilities at St Bonaventure and George Washington. (AT lease Dusquene started taking us to CONSOL instead of using their small on camous facility) Oh, and we have had years where we thought the schedule maker had a sick sadistic sense of humor -@ Fordham on Thursday followed by @St Louis Saturday?

And of the nine home games for Xavier, only 4 are when school is in session. (Three home games are over Christmas break- SJU, Butler, Marq and two over spring break- Creighton and Nova.)

Ugh, that sucks. Why couldn't Seton Hall or DePaul be during those time slots? That especially hurts for the Creighton and Nova games. Based off current projections, those are essentially 50-50 games as it is.

[JOPO]

Wish we had such a schedule maker! We never seem to luck out to much in that respect. I think our scheduling "gods" have horns, a sick sense of humor and live in a rather warm climate. Lol!

Being serious for a second, I think most schools would rather have a home game while school is in session and students are in town.

Because most of the venues are public and book other events too (Creighton's arena included), I'd guess that when the league decided to have 5 games in one day, the first thing they did was see what arenas were even available and work from there. I sincerely doubt that all ten arenas were available.

I thought Creighton owned their arena and played on campus like Butler and Xavier. Is that right or do you guys play in a pro arena like Seton Hall and Georgetown?

[lukecu]

Creighton plays in a pro arena like Georgetown and Seton Hall. However, there is no pro team in the arena. We rent it from MECA (arena operator) for each game. In addition, the arena is shared with the University of Nebraska Maverick's Hockey team and the various concerts that are held there. Creighton is the main tenant of the arena so they can mostly get the times and days they want and are given priority over UNO. I remember last March there was a Maroon 5 concert saturday night and a Creighton game the next afternoon, so there are a few schedule conflicts like that but not many.

[jayball]

We play in a City owned area, but are the primary tenant. Right now we share it with a Division 1 Hockey team but they are going to be playing somewhere else in a couple of years.


As for takeaways from Day 1.

This league is gonna be a helluva lot of fun. I only got to watch the Butler Nova game and the CU Marquette game, but we have some hard nosed teams that will fight every night.

I can't wait to see where we can take this all basketball league going forward.

We are better together.

[Friarfan2]

Stever, I'm not downplaying college football.

But what are you saying? We aren't allowed to play basketball games on days when there are football games?

That's not the case. There will be games scheduled at the same time as football. Might as well continue to make a big deal out of it. Doesn't cost much more to stagger them throughout the day and run them all, so might as well do it.

Some sports fans watching college football may switch over at half time or whatever.

We shouldn't cancel games on days when there are big college football games. And if we are going to be playing that day anyway, might as well do it right.

I loved tuesday's action. I hope they do it again. New years eve is the best day for it because a lot of people get it off and it is the kickoff to the conference season.

[DanofXav76]

We play in a City owned area, but are the primary tenant. Right now we share it with a Division 1 Hockey team but they are going to be playing somewhere else in a couple of years.


As for takeaways from Day 1.

This league is gonna be a helluva lot of fun. I only got to watch the Butler Nova game and the CU Marquette game, but we have some hard nosed teams that will fight every night.

I can't wait to see where we can take this all basketball league going forward.

We are better together.

Yep that was my other take away as well. In this league you better bring it every night or else!

[JOPO]

We play in a City owned area, but are the primary tenant. Right now we share it with a Division 1 Hockey team but they are going to be playing somewhere else in a couple of years.


As for takeaways from Day 1.

This league is gonna be a helluva lot of fun. I only got to watch the Butler Nova game and the CU Marquette game, but we have some hard nosed teams that will fight every night.

I can't wait to see where we can take this all basketball league going forward.

We are better together.

Yep that was my other take away as well. In this league you better bring it every night or else!

Totally agree. I like the makeup of the league and see us doing great things in the future...just the way the Big East has always done!