Sweet16 scedule1/9/2024 The Cougars’ opening game against the winner of the Michigan State-UCLA play-in game is on Saturday night and its potential second-round game is on Monday. The adherence to the rule typically means that BYU’s basketball teams are placed in tournament regions that don’t include games on Sundays. But with the game played on a Christmas Day that fell on a Sunday, BYU didn’t play in the game. In 1977, BYU won the WAC title in football to earn a spot in the Fiesta Bowl. Five years later, the NCAA instituted a rule that would allow the governing body to accommodate BYU’s Sunday exemption. The BYU baseball team didn’t advance to the College World Series in 1958 because it was scheduled to play on a Sunday. And that means keeping practices and games away from Sundays. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-operated school has wanted the mission of its school to be aligned with the athletic department. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Origin of BYU ruleīYU is the only major school in the country that doesn’t have its teams play on Sunday. With regional dates at four sites across the country set long in advance for a tournament in a normal non-pandemic world, a date swap would be a much tougher proposition.īYU forward Matt Haarms (3) looks on before the championship game of the West Coast Conference on March 9. The date swap is made easier by the NCAA using the state of Indiana as a host state for the entire tournament because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “If they do not, then there would be no change to dates for any teams for regionals.” “That contingency will only be utilized in the event that BYU were to advance to the Sweet 16,” NCAA vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt said in a statement. The Midwest region - currently scheduled for Saturday and Monday - would move to Sunday and Tuesday, March 30, in place of the East. If BYU wins, the East region will play its Sweet 16 games on Saturday, March 27, and have its Elite Eight regional final game on March 29. If the Cougars win their first two games of the tournament, the NCAA is going to accommodate the school. NCAA, March Madness, Big Dance, First Four, Sweet 16, Elite Eight, and Final Four are trademarks. 2 Villanova at AT&T Center, San Antonio: 7:29 p.m. Heres the full schedule, updated by round, on Sling. 1 Gonzaga at Chase Center, San Francisco: 7:09 p.m. 6 seed in the East region and the East region is set to have its Sweet 16 games played on Sunday, March 28. Below is the Sweet 16 schedule which will be updated with the date and start time of each game. The school has long had a rule that its teams don't play on Sundays. BYU could force the NCAA to change its men's basketball tournament schedule.
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