The NCAA's start time for the men's national title game starts way too late
Not that this isn’t the norm, but if you’re on Eastern Standard Time, you might want to drink some coffee before the men’s national title game tonight.
Connecticut and San Diego State will not officially start until around 9:30 Eastern. That’s right, 30 minutes before 10 o’clock (on the East coast) on a Monday evening, with work the next day, meaningful basketball will be played. That is just patently absurd.
I’m aware that fans in other time zones are a bit luckier, and this has a heavy hint of East coast bias. But come on now. This is a championship game. It’s a little ridiculous that even one time zone has to deal with this tip-off time.
Never mind that, hello — one invested fanbase, Connecticut, is in the Eastern time zone!
College basketball fans, especially those in the east, aren’t happy.