Weather wreaks havoc on Michigan Softball's schedule this weekend
Once again, the effing rain.
The Kentucky-UIC game tonight which Michigan would play the loser of tomorrow in an elimination game, has been postponed to tomorrow.
That throws the entire regional schedule off and will include us potentially playing on a Monday afternoon if we indeed make it that far and want to extend the season another week.
The updated schedule-
Tomorrow
Opening Round: Illinois-Chicago at 16 Kentucky (10am)
Elimination Game: Michigan vs Loser of UIC-UK (12:30pm)
1-0 Game: Notre Dame vs Winner of UIC-UK (3pm)
Sunday
Elimination Game: Winner of Elimination Game vs Loser of 1-0 Game (Noon)
Championship: Winner of Elimination Game vs Winner of 1-0 Game (2:30pm)
Monday (if nec.)
Championship: if nec. (TBA)
The format is unfortunately the format. I don't think the NCAA would allow them even if both coaches agreed.
There has to be some kind of incentive to not lose a game in the regional.
The only rule is that the regional has to end by midnight on Tuesday. If the regional isn't over at that point, the highest seeded undefeated team advances (if nobody is undefeated, then the winner of the most recent game between the 2 one-loss teams advances).
They will do everything they can to avoid making teams play 3 full games in a day, which explains the schedule for Saturday.
Instead of having to win 2 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday, Michigan now has to win 1 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
Whomever Michigan plays Saturday, Kentucky or Illinois-Chicago, they will be coming off an early morning loss and Michigan will get to sleep in. That's a pretty good advantage for advancing to the losers bracket final.
Didn't think of it that way.
Hopefully we can pull a Baseball and win it on a Monday night like they famously did over top seed Vandy in 2007.
Yeah, this seems ok for Michigan. UK-UIC is the pairing that's really jobbed here.
They played a game at Noon today.....
Beat Notre Dame!!
rain is just delaying the inevitable. . .
That’s ok though, if this is what a down year looks like, I’ll take. They’ll be back strong next year.
Go Blue!
I mean, just look at it like this - May is going for a personal best on rain and we're just here to witness it.
In all seriousness though, good luck to the softball team this weekend!
Any TV coverage of the Michigan game on Saturday at 12:30 ?
not showing in the listings for any ESPN channels or B10.
This is a losers bracket game; no real reason to show it, especially if it's Illinois-Chicago. There are 5 winners bracket games that start at noon or 1:00--those are the ones that are going to be on ESPN main networks.
The TV will be ESPN3 only.
Oh--also, the first game was delayed half an hour, so Michigan will now be playing at 1:00, not 12:30.
Game just moved to 7 pm.
in which case Mother Nature will push it to Sunday, when up to 5 games will be played...