When John Calipari tweeted out suggestions about future scheduling options of which team to X off the schedule, most people(including me) said Indiana should be the one.
Gary Parrish has written about the reasons why Indiana shouldn’t be taken off the schedule, and really any other team for that matter because it takes away the college environment away.
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The Kentucky coach has his reasons, of course. One of them is that the SEC will move from 16 to 18 league games next year. Another is Calipari’s strong desire to play more made-for-TV neutral-site games. So I get it. Honestly, I do. But I still hope all three series remain, and college basketball fans in general seem to agree because [URL=”http://twitter.com/#!/ericcrawford/status/146659878402928640″][COLOR=#3b5998]3.5 million people watched Saturday’s tilt[/COLOR][/URL] between the Wildcats and Indiana.
That’s a low number for “Jersey Shore.”
But it’s a massive pull for college basketball.
What Kentucky-Indiana provided was a game between two undefeated teams from two tradition-rich schools at an on-campus arena, and the importance of that last little detail can’t be overstated. Take the same game — and the same Christian Watford buzzer-beating 3-pointer that gave Indiana a victory over the top-ranked Wildcats — and put it at Madison Square Garden, and it loses something. Because the location mattered. It provided the type of atmosphere that makes college basketball special, and it created the postgame celebration that most of us will remember forever. I like that. And it’s only possible with a home-and-home series between power programs.
Truth be told, we don’t have enough of those these days.
That’s why it would stink to lose one of the really, really good ones.
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What do you think about Parrish’s point?
Would it be better for Kentucky to play on the road at Indiana, North Carolina, and Louisville?
Do you care more about how this affects Kentucky Basketball or college basketball as a whole?
