Between Jan. 2 and Feb. 25, your television set will be dark of Big Ten Conference men’s basketball games for all of four days.
That’s it.
Fans can even watch some Big Ten games on Mondays and Fridays, thanks to the conference’s newest television partner, FOX, which has TV windows on those days.
It’s a basketball smorgasbord, a hoops guru’s dream.
Of course, it comes with a price.
In this case, it’s fourteen Big Ten coaches finding ways to prepare their basketball teams for the usual gauntlet of 18 games, but this time with no bye weeks, and with a handful of one-day windows between games.