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ALL TIMES EASTERN
6 AM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Football: Wisconsin @ Minnesota (11/08/2003)

8 AM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Basketball: Minnesota @ Wisconsin (1/15/2009)

10 AM B1G Classic
Basketball: Indiana @ Minnesota (2/26/2013)

12 PM BTN LiveB1G Minnesota

12:30 PM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Basketball: Minnesota vs. Illinois (3/9/1996)

2:30 PM Big Ten Women’s Swimming & Diving B1G Championships

4:00 PM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Football: Purdue @ Minnesota (9/24/2005)

6:00 PM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Football: Minnesota @ Michigan (10/8/2005)

8:00 PM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Football: Purdue @ Minnesota (10/7/1995)

10:00 PM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Basketball: Minnesota @ Ohio State (2/2/1983)

12:00 AM Big Ten’s Greatest Games
Football: Wisconsin @ Minnesota (11/08/2003)

Go Gophers!!
 

Wish they had the basketball game in Iowa City from 1982. Maybe BTN doesn't have the TV rights?

For the most part it seems like they rehash the same games over & over & over.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Wish they had the basketball game in Iowa City from 1982. Maybe BTN doesn't have the TV rights?

For the most part it seems like they rehash the same games over & over & over.
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Ha, I would complain but we have to actually produce more memorable games to achieve this :)
 


The 1996 game was played with ineligible players! Where's Barney Fife (dpo) - the cheating cop - to browbeat us again? How can BTN do this?!?!?
 


Bad Gopher said:
The 1996 game was played with ineligible players! Where's Barney Fife (dpo) - the cheating cop - to browbeat us again? How can BTN do this?!?!?
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Hopefully he accidentally starts watching it and is forced to burn his tv.
 

Bad Gopher said:
The 1996 game was played with ineligible players! Where's Barney Fife (dpo) - the cheating cop - to browbeat us again? How can BTN do this?!?!?
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They were not ruled ineligible until after the fact, so show the game.
 

You guys should start charging me rent for all the time I'm spending inside your heads.
 

Bad Gopher said:
The 1996 game was played with ineligible players.
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I do find it odd that the BTN has shown games from seasons that were later vacated (not just the Gophers, must Michigan, too), yet to my recollection they haven't shown any Gopher games from the 1996-97 season. Makes no sense. Can't have it both ways. Either open it up for all those seasons, or none at all.
 




SelectionSunday said:
I do find it odd that the BTN has shown games from seasons that were later vacated (not just the Gophers, must Michigan, too), yet to my recollection they haven't shown any Gopher games from the 1996-97 season. Makes no sense. Can't have it both ways. Either open it up for all those seasons, or none at all.
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I recall watching the game at Wisconsin we lost that year on BTN a couple of years ago. Must have been Wisconsin day.
 

shickmyjanski said:
I recall watching the game at Wisconsin we lost that year on BTN a couple of years ago. Must have been Wisconsin day.
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Was Wisconsin day. You think they would play some games like Clemson, UCLA, @scUM, @ IU, either Iowa game, @ Purdue, alot of good games from that season. Illinois at home
 






I watched a little bit of the 1983 game vs Ohio State -- Tommy Davis, Randy Breuer, Jim Peterson, Mark Hall, Roland Brooks- Barry Wohler getting some minutes- It was fun to watch but not enough to keep me awake til the end. I assume we won. It is amazing how little contact it took back then to be a foul. I am not sure todays refs would ever blow the whistle if they would do that game. Neither team had really grabbed the ideology of using the 3 point shot as a weapon either.
 

Minnesconsin fan said:
I watched a little bit of the 1983 game vs Ohio State -- Tommy Davis, Randy Breuer, Jim Peterson, Mark Hall, Roland Brooks- Barry Wohler getting some minutes- It was fun to watch but not enough to keep me awake til the end. I assume we won. It is amazing how little contact it took back then to be a foul. I am not sure todays refs would ever blow the whistle if they would do that game. Neither team had really grabbed the ideology of using the 3 point shot as a weapon either.
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It was kind of scary watching Wohler with the ball. I was a big Roland Brooks fan - just 'cause he was unusual, but athletic - and gave good effort. Similar to my high school game! That Breuer-Waiters battle was kind of fun(ny) to watch. Was that the first year of the three point line?
 

Via my 14-year-old nephew in Maine, who watched the '83 Gopher-Ohio State game on the BTN:

"So that's what basketball was like when there was no flopping."

Touche.

He's not a fan of Lebron James, or Duke basketball.
 

I follow BTN on Facebook and recently they had a Minnesota day with the same games they always show, so I sent a message asking for other games, including the '90 game vs. Syracuse and the '97 classic vs. Clemson. They actually replied saying they don't have rights to any NCAA games because those are CBS' exclusively. However, I did suggest the '89 upset of the #1 Flyin' Illini at the Barn and they said they were going to look for it. I'm not sure who had those rights, or if that particular game was even on TV (I was there at the Barn in person), but if people want more robust Minnesota days on BTN in the future, I'd suggest sending them suggestions for new content.
 

WindyCityGopher said:
I follow BTN on Facebook and recently they had a Minnesota day with the same games they always show, so I sent a message asking for other games, including the '90 game vs. Syracuse and the '97 classic vs. Clemson.
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Good suggestions. I was at the '97 games against Clemson and UCLA, but have never seen them on tv. '97 game against Clemson was probably my all time favorite. Bobby Jackson of course was epic, playing the last 5 minutes and both OT's with 4 fouls, handling nearly all of the ballhandling because Harris had gotten hurt.
 


SelectionSunday said:
I do find it odd that the BTN has shown games from seasons that were later vacated (not just the Gophers, must Michigan, too), yet to my recollection they haven't shown any Gopher games from the 1996-97 season. Makes no sense. Can't have it both ways. Either open it up for all those seasons, or none at all.
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As others have mentioned they did at some point show a Gopher loss (to UW) that season. They also showed the OSU 1999 Elite 8 game, only a week or two ago. I don't understand why they don't show any of the Gopher wins from 1997. I would like to see the Clemson and UCLA games, but I guess all you can do is contact the university SID and ask them for it if you don't have it already. I don't buy the "CBS owns the rights" baloney - they air tourney games for other schools that were on CBS. The one logical reason I can see for them not having any of these games is I have doubts that the Big Ten wants to add any new "Greatest Game" content to their repertoire at this point, as they had a few seasons of Greatest Games and haven't had any new seasons for the old games lately. They do air recent games as "B1G Classic" games, but they seem to have stopped adding anything more than a couple years old.
 

WindyCityGopher said:
I follow BTN on Facebook and recently they had a Minnesota day with the same games they always show, so I sent a message asking for other games, including the '90 game vs. Syracuse and the '97 classic vs. Clemson. They actually replied saying they don't have rights to any NCAA games because those are CBS' exclusively. However, I did suggest the '89 upset of the #1 Flyin' Illini at the Barn and they said they were going to look for it. I'm not sure who had those rights, or if that particular game was even on TV (I was there at the Barn in person), but if people want more robust Minnesota days on BTN in the future, I'd suggest sending them suggestions for new content.
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Then why do they play Purdue vs Kansas, Iowa vs Oklahoma, Michigan vs Seton Hall, Indiana vs Syracuse, as well as a couple of the Ohio State games from the Oden year?
 

Yeah, the CBS excuse doesn't hold water. There are many examples of old tournament games that were on CBS that they air.

Maybe what the BTN reply was about was related to what they do with BTN to go, as online you can find every regular season game and conference tournament game from the past 2 seasons on demand through BTN to go (but you have to subscribe to one of the right TV providers) and you can watch those games all you want, but they don't have any NCAA tourney games from the past 2 years.
 

notoriousgod71 said:
Then why do they play Purdue vs Kansas, Iowa vs Oklahoma, Michigan vs Seton Hall, Indiana vs Syracuse, as well as a couple of the Ohio State games from the Oden year?
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Good question, I'm only passing along the answer BTN gave me. I didn't get into a discussion about it with them via Facebook comments.
 

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