Following an announcement from the Big Ten, Indiana released its complete 2017-2018 schedule on Wednesday afternoon. The Hoosiers will play 30 regular season games, which is one fewer than usual.
Here’s a look at five takeaways from this year’s schedule:
· Moving the Big Ten tournament impacts the schedule significantly: In order to secure Madison Square Garden, the conference had to move the Big Ten tournament up by one week. That wasn’t news to anyone.
What was of interest from Wednesday’s announcement, however, is how the league would put together the league schedule with one less week to work with.