The Pac-12’s lucrative media rights deal has meant teams must jump into scheduling windows wherever television dictates but Washington was given an extreme assignment this weekend.
The Huskies played at ASU on Wednesday and weren’t scheduled to play the Wildcats until Sunday. Worse, their game with the Sun Devils was at 9 p.m., meaning a trip home in between meant they wouldn’t get to Seattle until about 3 a.m. Thursday morning.
They went home anyway. Then they came back to Arizona on Saturday and this time had to fly commercial into Tucson. Their plane turned out to be an hour late, with an additional half-hour needed to deplane because of a medical emergency.
UW coach Lorenzo Romar still isn’t sure he did the right thing, having to choose whether to stay on the road for six days (counting their Tuesday arrival) and miss two days of school, or make the long schlep home in between.
“We need to do it a few times to see which way is the best,” he said.
