College Basketball Road Trips
I had the idea this year of going on 1 or 2 college basketball road trips. The whole purpose is to see multiple games over a weekend. We established some loose rules about the trip: They had to be on a weekend when my friend didn't have his kids The locations have to be driving distance to central Illinois We have to see at least 3 games in the trip - at least 2 on Saturday and then one either Friday or Sunday (or both, if it works out). Division 1 teams are the priority, but if there's room in the schedule, we aren't against seeing a D2/D3/NAIA game or two. After looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of 275 schedules, here's the possibilities we came up with: December 17-18-19: Friday 12/17: Franklin College (D3, Indiana) 7:00 Saturday 12/18: Cincinnati vs Texas Southern 12:00, Xavier vs Marquette 4:00 Sunday 12/19: Illinois-Chicago vs Northern Illinois 1:00 January 14-15-16: Friday 1/14: Purdue vs Nebraska 6:30 Saturday 1/15: Marquette vs Seton Hall 11:00, UW-Milw...