This is the most Chicago statement ever uttered.
B1G Commish says condensed basketball schedule won't be repeated
I think there should be a three venue rotation: Chicago, Indy, Rotational. 2/3rd of the years are played in almost exclusively B1G teritory, centrally located for most. Third year can be split between other, maybe more far reaching places (Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Columbus, Detroit, etc.)
Consistency and change. The best of both worlds.
Consistency and change. The best of both worlds.
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Indy is better; just the facts.
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wILL-INI
- Charlotte, NC
I had a similar list with Cleveland and St. Louis as well.
(Midwest cities with no real college).
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I think Chicago, Detroit and Indy would be a sufficient rotation. Those three states account for 43% of the big ten teams. If you wanted to rotate Detroit out with some city in a different state that would be fine but I don't think it should be in the hometown of one of the conference teams
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
Let's not overthink this. Chicago and Indy alternating is the no brainer. Not Detroit, not Columbus, not Washington, not New York, not Toronto, not Miami, not London. Let's stop messing around and tinkering with a good formula.
Why not just play it in Champaign every year?
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https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2014/5/7/5690888/where-do-big-ten-graduates-live-could-columbus-host-a-b1g-tournament
ok, so the discussion of B1G alumni by city caught my interest...here is a summary from a few years ago brought to us by my friends at Google.
ok, so the discussion of B1G alumni by city caught my interest...here is a summary from a few years ago brought to us by my friends at Google.
wILL-INI
- Charlotte, NC
Truly. OSU only getting 5000 and Nebraska getting 1800... Those are too low to be real.
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No further east than Pittsburgh, maybe once every ten years as a sop to Rutgers, Maryland and Penn State.
Ransom Stoddard
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- Bloomington, IL
The Big Ten is a great-lakes state conference. Until expansion to Nebraska only Iowa was the exception, and now we've also got NJ and MD.
Play to your base, always, 100% of the time, which means Chicago, Indy, and maybe Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee as rotators. No home-towns like Columbus (Even Detroit's a bit too close to scUM for my tastes, but once a decade is NBD), and nothing east of Cleveland.
Play to your base, always, 100% of the time, which means Chicago, Indy, and maybe Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee as rotators. No home-towns like Columbus (Even Detroit's a bit too close to scUM for my tastes, but once a decade is NBD), and nothing east of Cleveland.
I'm not sure, but I suspect they got these from Alumni association, so depending on how good the Alumni association is, the area it takes in, & % of alumni that actually participate the number accuracy probably varies from school to school.
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
I guess my willingness to put the tourney in Indy has more to do with it be a central, easy to get to destination in the Big Ten territory. So here's a hypothetical. If there were to be, say, a Purdue-MSU B1G championship game, if you got the entirety of their alumni bases in NY (according to these numbers), it wouldn't even fill up half of the Garden.
So I really think these games have to be attended by people coming in from out of town. I would say that the schools that fall within reasonable driving distance to the respective locations are:
Chicago: IL, IO, NW, WI, MI, MSU, IU, PU, OSU, MN
Indy: IU, PU, IL, NW, OSU, MI, MSU, WI, (maybe IO)
NY: RU, MD, PSU
You could maybe sway me into saying ever fifth year we rotate to another B1G city, but I would still think that the location needs to be within driving distance of at least 4-5 schools.
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Just for grins:
The average driving distance from each of the Big Ten schools:
To Chicago - 335 miles
To Indy - 346 miles
To Cleveland - 411 miles
To Pittsburgh - 415 miles
To New York City - 710 miles
Mileage courtesy of Google Maps.
The average driving distance from each of the Big Ten schools:
To Chicago - 335 miles
To Indy - 346 miles
To Cleveland - 411 miles
To Pittsburgh - 415 miles
To New York City - 710 miles
Mileage courtesy of Google Maps.
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal with Do Not Contact Tag
Any Illinois fan wanting anything other than this is guilty of fan treason.
Back when we were Illinois Basketball, we had such a significant competitive advantage playing in Chicago the rest of the coaches in the league threw a fit about it. This was back in the heady days where we had - by a decent margin - the best BTT winning percentage.
Of course, in those days we had a pretty substantial winning percentage no matter where in the State of Illinois we played -- but especially at Assembly Hall.
Serious Late
- Peoria via Denver via Ann Arbor via Albuquerque vi
The data is a sampling, not a census. The first section highlights the analysis is based on registered linkedin users. As you mentioned, the purpose is to highlight the relative share of populations, not provide precise volumes.
Was just reading this and came over here to see if anything was said. Sounds like we should just alternate between Indy and Chicago and we'll be the most accurate conference by quite a bit.
haasi
- New York
Completely agree. As others have said, I wouldn’t mind occasional other venues - Milwaukee, Detroit, Minny, Cleveland- just to give other core big ten fan bases occasional opportunities to “host” the tournament, but that would be it.
In that circumstance, Indy and Chicago would host two thirds of years, and each of the other cities would get the tourney once every 12 years - could pull a big crowd over the excitement of getting the tourney so rarely, and for people who go to tourney every year, maybe fun to have a little variety.
It goes without saying that tournament should never again be a week early - that is very midmajor.
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