re: **Official Midnight Madness Thread**

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Cheese Grits, use your head, what else is going on on Saturdays in November? CBS is not going to play a Saturday basketball game in November, Kentucky already gets their season premier the first weekend in December.

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I get your point but I am not precluding Fridays and Sundays over tuesdays in the equation. The game with the Terps is friday night so more people will go and up the atmosphere. When SEC football has dead week on Nov 17th why not put UK vs Duke on that saturday to fill slots of the 8 crap SEC games that weekend. SEC games of merit the 17th are :

TBA = Ole Miss vs LSU
TBA = Arkansas vs State
TBA = Tennessee vs Vanderbilt

If not play it that friday night like the terp game. Either way it gets the SEC an extra national spotlight. You know those ACC schools will tune in if they think UK beats Duke. Like Notre Dame in football a large faction of Duke viewers are not Duke fans. Ratings don't care which side you support, only that you tune in and watch.

Friday november 16th
7pm Wake vs Uconn in ACC vs Big East game
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UK vs Duke would be better than the crummy home games both play that weekend.

Last year UNC played Michigan State on a FRIDAY on a carrier !!!!
What kind of numbers did it generate because I know they advertised it a lot leading up to the game.