Last season, the U.S. Figure Skating Championships took over Omaha’s CenturyLink Center for more than a week in late January. That affected every school’s schedule and sent the Bluejays on the road for three straight games from Jan. 19-27. Nobody outside of Omaha felt bad for the Bluejays, the only team to face such an issue.
But those blackout dates also helped produce a schedule in which Creighton played five games with a rest advantage over its opponent and one at a disadvantage, the best situation of any school. Wichita State played one game with a rest edge and four at a disadvantage, the worst variance of the four schools on the negative side of the rest advantage.
“Much to our horror,” Elgin said. “(But) Wichita State didn’t complain. We didn’t hear a word from them. They just laced them up and went to the Final Four.”
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I guess that pretty much wraps up the CU argument that CU always got first option on dates at CLink.
