Flying Dutchmen Fans

The Shadow wrote:I was just looking at the HU 2019-20 Men's Basketball schedule and noticed the Manhattan College game on Sunday, December 22nd has a 12:00pm tip-off. Isn't that a little early? Maybe it was done for TV. Does anyone have any information?

Probably done because of NFL games.

Looking at the schedules from other CAA teams, the CAA has 10 games on CBS Sports Network before the CAA Tournament, which is more than 8 that I previously read. That's an average of 2 per team, and we're on 3 times. Back when the CAA was on TV more, a greater percentage of weekend games were on TV than weeknight games. CBS Sports Network is different, with 8 out of 10 games on weekdays, and 1 of the Saturday games is us at Northeastern at 8:00 P.M.

William & Mary at Elon on Monday December 30 at 7:00 P.M.
James Madison at UNC Wilmington on Thursday January 2 at 7:00 P.M.
Drexel at Towson on Thursday January 9 at 6:00 P.M.
Hofstra at Northeastern on Saturday January 11 at 8:00 P.M.
Delaware at Hofstra on Thursday January 23 at 7:00 P.M.
Charleston at James Madison on Thursday on January 30 at 7:00 P.M.
Towson at Delaware on Thursday February 6 at 7:00 P.M.
Charleston at Hofstra on Thursday February 13 at 7:00 P.M.
Delaware at Charleston on Thursday February 27 at 6:00 P.M.
Towson at Northeastern on Saturday February 29 at 4:00 P.M. (Northeastern's website says Saturday February 29 and Towson's website says Sunday March 1)

I have a couple of corrections to what I posted yesterday now that the CAA posted the schedule at https://caasports.com/calendar.aspx?path=mbball

Hofstra at Northeastern will be on Thursday January 9, not Saturday January 11. It will be a doubleheader on TV with Drexel at Towson at 6:00 P.M. and Hofstra at Northeastern at 8:00 P.M.

Towson at Northeastern will be on Sunday March 1, not Saturday February 29. That will be the only weekend game on CBSSN. CBSSN will not show any games on Saturdays.

Here's a summary of the CAA's out of conference games:

Total: 125

Weekend: 43 (34.4%
Weekday: 82 (65.6%)

Division I Power 5 + Big East + American Athletic (was ahead of the Pac-12 in last season's Conference NET): 19* (15.2%)
Division I nine conferences ranked from 8 through 16 in last season's Conference NET: 34 (27.2%)
Division I fifteen conferences ranked 17th and 19th through 32nd in last season's Conference NET (the CAA was 18th): 54^ (43.2%)
Unknown Division I: 9 (7.2%)
Non-Division I: 9 (7.2%)

* Here is a list of those teams by conference:
American Athletic: Temple, East Carolina, and South Florida (3)
Atlantic Coast: North Carolina twice, Virginia, Georgia Tech, and Wake Forest (5)
Big East: Xavier and Villanova (2)
Big Ten: Rutgers and Michigan (2)
Big XII: Oklahoma and Oklahoma State (2)
Pac-12: UCLA twice and Stanford (3)
Southeastern: Florida and Vanderbilt (2)

* means I didn't count these games because of how many conferences it includes, but if all the other numbers are correct then this number is correct.

The top two groups add up to 53, and the bottom groups has 54. I excluded unknown opponents including times when the opponent is guaranteed to be in one of the top two groups such as Buffalo or Connecticut.

thanks evanj.