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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015
PAGE 3B
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Big 12 is 13-7 over SEC in previous challenges
- Big 12 website
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who did KU beat in this year's Challenge?
A: Florida
KU Athletics
Big 12/SEC Challenge is not in Kansas' best interest
THE MORNING BREW
According to CBS and ESPN, the format for the Big 12/SEC Challenge will be juristically altered for the 2016 season. Due to maximum exposure to the event, which usually takes place in late November or early December, games will now be played and both conferences have been told to leave an open date in their schedules for late January or early February.
Why the change? Two reasons.
Why the change? The 120 course
One is TV ratings. This "challenge" is played the same week as the Big Ten/ ACC Challenge and both the SEC and Big 12 think they've lost viewership when two more popular conferences square off in prime time.
Two, having these games in late January or early February puts them in prime time position on TV so whatever day it is on, that game will be the day's attraction.
Now, many coaches from both conferences have voiced their opinions and are not happy.
They have every right to be upset. With the placement of this format, games will occur in the middle of each conference season. That means each Big 12/ SEC coach will have to gamepla out of conference when they normally wouldn't.
There are negative scenarios that could occur with this change. A team, like Kansas, has to travel mid Big 12 season down to Gainesville, Fla., or Athens, Ga., they would have to return two days later to Allen Fieldhouse to play their next Big 12 opponent. Why
would anyone want to do that to any team mid conference season? Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has said it's always hard to take your team's focus on their rival opponent and have them change it to focus on an entirely different conference.
The only way this works out in the long run is having the top teams play on their home courts. Have Kansas play in Allen Fieldhouse against a closer opponent in Missouri. There should
be no reason why Kansas or any other midwest B1 2 team like Iowa State should have to travel down south. It messes with a team's daily routine as well as their overall psyche.
Unless the new Big 12/ SEC challenge format consists of close proximity games like Kansas-Mizzou, there is no other reason to switch it, TV exposure aside. The Kansas-Florida game in this year's Challenge was off the charts, but only time will tell if the Challenge will return to its old ways after next season's experiment with changing dates.
Kansas hosts final dual meet before championship season
Edited by Callie Byrnes
AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just
Kansas swim and dive hosts Iowa State this weekend for its final dual of the season.
It's a two-day meet, with Friday's session starting at 6 p.m. and Saturday's session starting at 10 a.m.
AT HOME/ON THE ROAD
Kansas is 4-2 in its own pool. Iowa State is 1-2 on the road.
FAST FACTS
Kansas and Iowa State competed against each other in the Kansas Classic last semester. Kansas won the meet and Iowa State finished second.
Kansas swimming has faced just one Big 12 opponent this season, TCU, and won 172-124.
Iowa State swimming has competed against TCU and West Virginia this season.
beating both teams by the same score of 157-143.
JAYHAWKS VS. CYCLONES
The last time the two teams met, Iowa State narrowly defeated Kansas 161.5-138.5.
Since the inception of the Big 12, Kansas leads the all-time duals record at 13-5.
Kansas and Iowa State have faced two similar opponents:
SIMILAR OPPONENTS
TCU and Illinois.
Iowa State lost to Illinois (168-132) and defeated TCU (157-143).
STAR COMPARISONS
Kansas defeated Illinois (154-146) and TCU (172-124).
Kansas' Hannah Driscoll and Iowa State's Alex Flatness have times within 04 of each other in the 100-yard freestyle. Driscoll (51.22) and Flatness (51.26) should make for a good
Kansas' Bryce Hinde and Iowa State's Kasey Roberts have times within .05 of each other in the 100-yard breaststroke. Hinde swam a 1:02.24 at the U.S. Winter Nationals and Kasey Roberts posted a time of 1:02.19 at Iowa State's annual dual with Iowa.
race if the two are swimming that event this weekend.
Edited by Mitch Raznick
ANNA WENNER/KANSAN
Kansas swim and dive will host Iowa State on Friday for its season-ending dual. Kansas is 4-2 at home and 2-1 away.
ANNA WENNER/KANSAN
Nadia Khechef, a freshman from Lincoln, NE. does the 1-meter dive.
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