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When does everyone expect to start seeing scheduling done for up the upcoming Men's and Women's basketball season? Excited to get things going!

Might take a little while with the season being pushed back a couple of weeks expect to see quit a few tournaments this year.

Leathernecks1092 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:07 am When does everyone expect to start seeing scheduling done for up the upcoming Men's and Women's basketball season? Excited to get things going!

Probably was delayed due to things being "up in the air" for next season. Now that the NCAA has announced that basketball seasons can start 11/25 (https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-me ... iving-week), I'd imagine that the conference schedule should be out fairly soon and that schools will be working on cancelling or rescheduling the few games that were previously scheduled to happen before that date.

The men have 2 games that fall in that range: 11/10 at Cincinnati and 11/17 against a Horizon League team. I know that in the contract for the Cincinnati game, there is language dealing with the epidemic/pandemic, so it might just be cancelled. Horizon League "challenge" might be pushed back a year to start next year instead.
The women had a game scheduled against Purdue on 11/11 that will have to be cancelled or rescheduled. We were also supposed to play at Iowa, but I don't know that I ever heard an official date on that.

If there's no changes other than those few games cancelled, it looks like the men would start their season against Ball State on 12/2 and the women are supposed to participate in the Compass Challenge December 4-5.

WIU men working toward basketball season start.
From the McDonough County Voice:
https://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/news/202 ... ason-start

Start date in place, WIU waits on schedule.
From the McDonough County Voice:
https://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/news/202 ... n-schedule

Figuring it out.
From the McDonough County Voice:
https://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/news/202 ... ing-it-out

Rob Jeter and Co. look to re-build the Leatherneck program.
From the Western Courier:
https://westerncourier.com/47741/sports ... k-program/

Leatherneck Men slotted ninth in Summit pre-season poll.
From the McDonough County Voice:
https://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/news/202 ... eason-poll

The Ivy League has canceled winter sports for the 2020-21 season.

The conference also postponed spring sports until at least the end of February and won't conduct competition for fall sports during the spring semester.

More info about how the season is going to go: https://goleathernecks.com/news/2020/11 ... dates.aspx

Some important points:

At this time, in accordance with state and local guidelines, fans are not permitted to attend any event held inside Western Hall. If the guidelines change, Western Illinois Athletics will notify fans of the updated measures and ticket availability.

This year, the Leatherneck Sports Network has a new home online on Mixlr. Click here or download the Mixlr app (searching WIU Athletics) to listen live! All home events will be streamed.

So that's audio streaming.

...live stream all home basketball games via Leatherneck All-Access, ESPN3, or ESPN+. A full schedule will be released at a later date.

That covers video streaming.