Minnesota game rescheduled for Feb. 20th

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thehass
They dodged a bullet and sent us into perilous waters. with the way scheduling will be.
 
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IlliniFaninHoosierLand
Just for some clarification for everyone, this is what I could find of what the B1G's rescheduling policy is:

Now, per the Big Ten’s revised rules, if a team cannot meet the threshold for what the conference deems safe competition (seven available scholarship players and at least one available countable coach), the game will be rescheduled. If it cannot be rescheduled, it will be declared a no-contest. Only in cases where a team cannot reasonably demonstrate why it cannot meet that safety threshold will the game be considered a forfeit. The remains wiggle room within those definitions, which would require schools to demonstrate an inability to compete safely to the conference directly.
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Link: https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...id-19-affects-basketball-programs/9035285002/

In the case of Minnesota, it's a combination of covid and injury issues with the program. They only had 8 available scholarship players for this weekend's game against Maryland. Dawson Garcia has missed the last 4 games and Braeden Carrington has missed the last 6 games. Parker Fox and Isaiah Ihnen are out for the season.
 
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New Creation
Starting February 18th we have a game every 3 days until the start of the BIG tournament. There is about to be a whole lot of basketball
 
#10      
Illinifan74
Pretty brutal schedule going forward, but can only think (hope) it will help when March gets here. Also good to be getting Goode a bit of extra practice in - will be nice to have another player that can get some minutes.
 
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lstewart53x3
Rule suggestion:

If you do not have enough players to field a team, regardless of reason (COVID, injury, flu, etc), you forfeit the game for conference standings and it counts as a DNP for tournament selection.

To Minnesota, that’s one game lost in the conference standings and it would not count against them for tournament seeding (in a scenario where they finish the year eligible).

Instead, we now have to play 5 games in 12 days, which lowers our chances of winning in 4 of those games and each of those games counts against us in both B1G standings & NCAA tournament seeding.

The current rule negatively impacts us, even though we did nothing wrong.

The people that run these organizations are buffoons.
 
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Illini2010-11
lstewart53x3 said:
Rule suggestion:

If you do not have enough players to field a team, regardless of reason (COVID, injury, flu, etc), you forfeit the game for conference standings and it counts as a DNP for tournament selection.

To Minnesota, that’s one game lost in the conference standings and it would not count against them for tournament seeding (in a scenario where they finish the year eligible).

Instead, we now have to play 5 games in 12 days, which lowers our chances of winning in 4 of those games and each of those games counts against us in both B1G standings & NCAA tournament seeding.

The current rule negatively impacts us, even though we did nothing wrong.

The people that run these organizations are buffoons.
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From a fan sense where winning alone matters, I 100% agree with you. From a business sense, I completely disagree with premise of a forfeit without looking at trying to make up the game.

In a straight forfeit/game cancelation, the DIA would have to refund all of the tickets to the game. That is a logistical headache to begin with, not to mention a good chunk of revenue lost (especially since we are near sell outs in almost every game). Many of the concession stands are manned by non-profit organizations to boost a cause, so they would be out potential revenues as well. Guarantee that the DIA wanted this game made up. For these reasons, I could never see this type of rule agreed upon, especially for a conference game. In a non-conference break game, that is a different story.

Yes, it stinks to now have a competitive disadvantage in some other games, but we 100% need to make up the game if and when possible. Hopefully the team jumps out to a quick lead, where we can get our reserves a lot of playing time to rest up our starters for the Northwestern game.
 
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lstewart53x3
Illini2010-11 said:
From a fan sense where winning alone matters, I 100% agree with you. From a business sense, I completely disagree with premise of a forfeit without looking at trying to make up the game.

In a straight forfeit/game cancelation, the DIA would have to refund all of the tickets to the game. That is a logistical headache to begin with, not to mention a good chunk of revenue lost (especially since we are near sell outs in almost every game). Many of the concession stands are manned by non-profit organizations to boost a cause, so they would be out potential revenues as well. Guarantee that the DIA wanted this game made up. For these reasons, I could never see this type of rule agreed upon, especially for a conference game. In a non-conference break game, that is a different story.

Yes, it stinks to now have a competitive disadvantage in some other games, but we 100% need to make up the game if and when possible. Hopefully the team jumps out to a quick lead, where we can get our reserves a lot of playing time to rest up our starters for the Northwestern game.
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Yep, I didn’t take that into account. Makes sense
 
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Navy_illini
The interesting thing will Minnesota play on Sunday against Iowa not sure how long it will take to recover. That will mess up some other schedules

To truly assess how good a team is to look at the win lost record and when they played. Which players were injured/sick

ScUM benefited from playing NW after a compressed schedule. We played IU after a busy part of our schedule and Mayer being sick. Right now Iowa is not the same team that started earlier this year. In the regular season we can make excuses. Come March you either win or go home
 
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