Per Justin Williams of The Athletic, the amount ESPN would pitch in should the B12 add UConn wouldn't even match UConn's Big East TV cut, and rely on (potential) additional NCAA credits. youtube.com/clip/UgkxUQK4x…

Using Bart Torvik's WAB as our metric, here are the five toughest non-conference games Big East teams are guaranteed to play this upcoming season. #mubb's visit to Ames 2nd on the list.

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What does 6-9 C Caedin Hamilton (⁦Caedin Hamilton)⁩ think of the upcoming season? #mubb 247sports.com/college/marque…

Breaking the season ticket record is incredibly noteworthy. Full stop. But to do so in a year the average ticket went up 6.1%, the first broad increase since moving to Fiserv, tells you just how much more impressive this is for #mubb.

[New to PT] Who has the toughest non-con schedule in the Big East? 🔗painttouches.com/2024/09/05/who… #mubb

This is terrific

Come for the meaningless ranking of non-con schedules. Stay for the perspective-altering impact of WAB. If you've only heard bits and pieces, I think this is a good foray into why so many statheads gravitate to it over other measures.

I've said over and over, completely get UConn's desires to keep football alive, but the timing, and the fact it was all done so publicly is an enormous indictment on them and whoever at the B12 was blabbing to the press.

Sports Media Watch remains the GOAT for all things sports ratings. Incredible info with top notch analysis and viz. To put this rating in perspective, only 4 UConn MBB games had a worse rating last season. Manhattan (FS1) Pine Bluff, MVST, Stonehill (FS2)

If you want to understand why WAB is easily the best way to measure resume strength, take a look at the Big East noncon results from last season. UConn had the 2nd worst noncon SOS in the league, but finished with the highest WAB. Full info: painttouches.com/2024/09/05/who… #mubb

Can't imagine it's much fun to take face Chase Ross in these kinds of drills. #mubb

Which is why it makes total sense for a majority of the NCAA settlement backpayments to be primarily taken from non-football playing conferences.

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Looks like only 3 Saturday games in BE play, so for those looking a NMD dates, probably won't by STJ on 3/8. Guessing UConn on 2/1 over X on 1/18. #mubb

#mubb gets to host UConn, Creighton, STJ and X (who I think are 4 of the 5 best teams) on either Friday or Saturday this year. Good stuff.

One Big East schedule release nugget that may only interest me, there will be 9 Friday night conference matchups compared to 5 last season and 5 in 2023. Of those 9, 4 are BE double headers, which leaves lots of room to ride B10 rating coattails.

Paint Touches Fanta confirmed CBS and CBSSN will have Big East games in 2024-25