5 minutes ago, Randy Parker said:

2022 – Spokane Arena
2023 – Rupp Arena
2024 – Seattle
2025 – Nashville
2026 – Rupp Arena
2027 – McCarthey Athletic Center (Gonzaga's home arena)

I always wonder how they negotiate this stuff.

Why not just true home/away every year?

Why Spokane Arena? And for anti-Cal people, this was NOT a neutral site game. That would be like saying playing at Memorial Coliseum is a neutral site game.

Seattle/Nashville?

I assume some has to do with national branding and recruiting, but who knows?

It is probably the one thing that always brings us together and divides us: money.

2 minutes ago, bugatti said:

I always wonder how they negotiate this stuff.

Why not just true home/away every year?

Why Spokane Arena? And for anti-Cal people, this was NOT a neutral site game. That would be like saying playing at Memorial Coliseum is a neutral site game.

Seattle/Nashville?

I assume some has to do with national branding and recruiting, but who knows?

It is probably the one thing that always brings us together and divides us: money.

Spokane seats double what McCarthey does, so that likely explains that.  And Cal, whether I like it or not, is big on neutral site games.  Maybe because he sees them as preparatory for the NCAA Tournament.  Maybe branding, as you said.  I would guess Seattle and Nashville have large concentrations of fans for each team & both sites are about 3.5 to 4 hours away from campus.

8 minutes ago, bugatti said:

I always wonder how they negotiate this stuff.

Why not just true home/away every year?

Why Spokane Arena? And for anti-Cal people, this was NOT a neutral site game. That would be like saying playing at Memorial Coliseum is a neutral site game.

Seattle/Nashville?

I assume some has to do with national branding and recruiting, but who knows?

It is probably the one thing that always brings us together and divides us: money.

Simple. Cal is a coward. 

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11 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

Simple. Cal is a coward. 

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That part is a given.

17 minutes ago, Randy Parker said:

Spokane seats double what McCarthey does, so that likely explains that.  And Cal, whether I like it or not, is big on neutral site games.  Maybe because he sees them as preparatory for the NCAA Tournament.  Maybe branding, as you said.  I would guess Seattle and Nashville have large concentrations of fans for each team & both sites are about 3.5 to 4 hours away from campus.

I suppose all those things are true, but these are negotiated deals by both parties. I'm just always fascinated with how these things unfold.

Seattle has always been a sneaky city for basketball talent.

2 minutes ago, Tranquility Base said:

Seems like an odd matchup in the middle of conference play.   Why was this scheduled for now?

Probably TV request.

Doesn't UK usually have a good non conference opponent scheduled each year in the middle of conference play?

5 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Probably TV request.

Doesn't UK usually have a good non conference opponent scheduled each year in the middle of conference play?

The SEC-BIG 12 Challenge has been it the last several years. But UK has a history of randomly playing games during conference play that I can remember from years' past (ND, 'Nova, etc).

Kentucky 94-86.

I’d assume they’re playing at Bridgestone Arena and not Vandy. I like Neutral sight games on a rotating basis. We grew up with Indiana and Kentucky rotating between Indianapolis and Louisville. 
 

Cats by 10 or more. 

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On 2/7/2024 at 1:38 AM, 16thBBall Fan said:

The Zags (16-6) travel cross country to take on the Cats (16-6) in non-conference contest at Rupp. The game is scheduled for 2:00pm on Saturday on CBS. Go Cats!!

Game is at 4:00. Not 2:00.

1 hour ago, punttheball said:

Game is at 4:00. Not 2:00.

Yes we corrected that in this thread Wednesday afternoon. I hit the 2 instead of the 4. Thanks.

It looks like from the pregame show on the radio that there is a good chance for Wagner to play, but not Mitchell.

Looks like the start is delayed due to Illinois at Michigan State game.

It is still hard to believe that 22 games into the season and Kentucky is giving up 78.3 points per game. They give up more than that today they may lose unless they score 95+.