Beilein Rips ESPN For Bumping Michigan-Villanova Game
By Ashley Dunkak
@AshleyDunkak
CBS DETROIT - Michigan's game against Villanova, already scheduled to tip off at 10 p.m., was delayed 15 minutes Tuesday so that game could be seen in its entirety on ESPN2 after a football game between Miami (Ohio) and Ohio ran late.
The move did not sit well with Michigan head coach John Beilein.
"Was anyone else bothered with us moving back 10 minutes to accommodate ESPN?" Beilein said following the game, according to MLive. "I love ESPN, guys, I love it, but when they told me that the game was being moved back 15 minutes - something is wrong. We have a whole bunch of guys with 8 and 9 o'clock classes tomorrow morning and we move that game to 10:15 so that a football game could be finished.
"Let us start our game," Beilein continued, per MLive. "This is way out of whack when we move a game 15 minutes. It's already at the wrong time - 10 p.m. on the East Coast - and now, move it 15 more minutes? I love ESPN. They're so good for us. They got that one wrong. You can't do that to our student-athletes ... Tell Spike Albrecht when he goes to his 9 o'clock class today that it was more important that we start that on time at 10 o'clock, rather than that. This is wrong and we're going to fix it. Thank you very much."
Villanova defeated the Wolverines, 60-55. Michigan now has a record of 4-1.
