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Big Ten Releases 2021-22 Schedule
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa wrestling program announced Wednesday it will wrestle an eight-dual conference schedule in 2021-22, beginning with a home date Jan. 7 against Minnesota at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Big Ten released the conference schedule Wednesday. Each Big Ten institution will wrestle four duals at home and four on the road.
In addition to hosting Minnesota on Jan. 7, Iowa will welcome Purdue (Jan. 9), Penn State (Jan. 28) and Wisconsin (Feb. 5) to Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Hawkeyes’ Big Ten schedule includes road trips to Northwestern (Jan. 14), Illinois (Jan. 16), Ohio State (Jan. 21) and Nebraska (Feb. 20).
Iowa’s nonconference schedule will be released at a later date, but season tickets are available for immediate purchase at hawkeyesports.com.
National and Big Ten Coach of the Year Tom Brands returns the entire 10-man lineup from Iowa’s 2021 Big Ten and NCAA championship teams. The lineup includes 10 All-Americans and two-time Hodge Trophy winner Spencer Lee, who last season became the seventh wrestler in program history to win three NCAA titles.
Iowa won the 2021 NCAA Championships with seven All-America honors and three national finalists. The team title was No. 24 in program history. Iowa crowned four Big Ten champions – Lee, Jaydin Eierman, Alex Marinelli, and Michael Kemerer – en route to its 37th conference title in school history.
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa wrestling program announced Wednesday it will wrestle an eight-dual conference schedule in 2021-22, beginning with a home date Jan. 7 against Minnesota at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Big Ten released the conference schedule Wednesday. Each Big Ten institution will wrestle four duals at home and four on the road.
In addition to hosting Minnesota on Jan. 7, Iowa will welcome Purdue (Jan. 9), Penn State (Jan. 28) and Wisconsin (Feb. 5) to Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Hawkeyes’ Big Ten schedule includes road trips to Northwestern (Jan. 14), Illinois (Jan. 16), Ohio State (Jan. 21) and Nebraska (Feb. 20).
Iowa’s nonconference schedule will be released at a later date, but season tickets are available for immediate purchase at hawkeyesports.com.
National and Big Ten Coach of the Year Tom Brands returns the entire 10-man lineup from Iowa’s 2021 Big Ten and NCAA championship teams. The lineup includes 10 All-Americans and two-time Hodge Trophy winner Spencer Lee, who last season became the seventh wrestler in program history to win three NCAA titles.
Iowa won the 2021 NCAA Championships with seven All-America honors and three national finalists. The team title was No. 24 in program history. Iowa crowned four Big Ten champions – Lee, Jaydin Eierman, Alex Marinelli, and Michael Kemerer – en route to its 37th conference title in school history.
PSU at Carver Jan 28. This works out...I believe PSU owed us one anyways.
PSU at Carver Jan 28. This works out...I believe PSU owed us one anyways.
I’m hopeful to attend that one. Thinking about going to the Minnesota dual as well to see Gable.
No, I’m good, already have some.Might as well go whole hog and buy some gear too
PSU at Carver Jan 28. This works out...I believe PSU owed us one anyways.
Don't think PSU owed Iowa one unless I missed something. In fact, I thought it might be at Penn State this year but, except for the dual being postponed last year, this fits the "recent rotation". Based on a quick look back, including the upcoming match, over the last 10 seasons Iowa/PSU will have had 7 duals with 5 having been held at Iowa.
21 @Iowa
20 postponed
19 @Iowa
18 no match
17 @Penn State
16 Iowa
15 no match
14 @Penn State
13 @Iowa
12 @Iowa
This is going to be a nice rating event for BTN. No way they’re letting it go.
"This place is up for grabs!!!" ..........Thank you Mark Hall.
Serious TV question that just popped into my head since BTN is owned by Fox. Has there ever been any wrestling events on FS1? I know that they are occasionally on the regional FoxSports channels, but can't think of seeing any on the national network. If they are trying to compete with ESPN, you would think they would try to pick up some select duals where there is already the Fox connection and a national brand.
Full capacity. Paid for my season tickets yesterday.
Even though that'll be the biggest dual in the country this year, there's still only about 0.05% of people in the US who know anything or care about wrestling at all.
Cornhole tournaments get put on ESPN before wrestling. That should tell you something.
No need to travel north, you can see Gable at any Iowa home wrestling event
Wrestling is the third highest rated sport on BTN.
... and 2013 was not part of the regular season or B10 schedule. We had to even get a single-meet ticket for that one.
If going single meet tickets and want PSU, it was sold out months ahead last time so get in early for it. That meet is going to be a war. So many matchups in there. Cant wait to see Desanto vs RBY in Carver, Lee vs Ironman, Star vs Kem. Cant wait.
I’m not sure. I haven’t seen the sports breakdown. Just going off this article in the Register. Either way, wrestling is a nice sport for them.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's correct. I looked at both the Iowa and PSU sites and both allow you to look at prior years. They both say the same thing. There's a dropdown on the right side at the top of the schedule. The fact that the dual is scheduled to be at Iowa this year makes me think that the schedules must be determined well in advance (prior to last year's postponement) - the schedule makers likely anticipated that since the dual was set to be at PSU last year it would therefore shift to Iowa this coming season. https://hawkeyesports.com/sports/wrestling/schedule/season/2021-22/
Sorry man...tried to tip you off with the Sting and winking gif. The who owes who subject has been much debated around here. So I threw the fishing line out when I found out the good news
Bear in mind that they completely blew up the schedule format for this year...effectively going East/West with the two divisions, and breaking the crossover duals into two tiers (top tier being Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska in the West, Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State in the East), and having each team wrestling crossover duals only within their tier.
You got me …. Occasional poster… I’ll be sure to keep my eyes open in the future. 😊
I’m a lifelong huge fan of wrestling, and I’m definitely not knocking the sport. I live 5 1/2 hours from IC and have season tickets.
But it’s just not a national draw sport. I’ve done a whole lot of traveling all over this country and unfortunately wrestling is a hyper regional fan base. Even in states with elite wrestling programs it’s hard to find fans. I’d say Iowa is about the only state where everyone knows how good and how historic our wrestling program is, even among those who don’t follow it.
Places like Oklahoma and Pennsylvania are even tough to find fans randomly, obviously because there are tons of elite college sports, pro sports, and huge metropolitan areas.
You just won’t ever get wrestling to catch hold in those big markets, so it gets relegated to networks like Big Ten. Which is ok with me, I’ll still buy tickets and watch when it’s on TV.
I don’t disagree with you, but I think wrestling is just a slightly better draw than you think. It’s never going to compete with football and basketball, but even on the B1G it’s already a bigger draw than hockey and baseball.
I’d like to compare the average cornhole ratings, since that is what you mentioned, to B1G wrestling.
Iowa and PSU get relegated to B1G because they own the rights. If ESPN owned the rights, that dual would be on one of the ESPN channels. Indiana vs Illinois? You have a point. But ESPN does carry every match of our championship to include the finals in prime time.
Beyond football and baseball, most college sports are “niche” sports. This is something we already know.
This gets a bit more to my original point though. What are the rules on rights to the broadcast? I know BTN holds primary rights. Forget ESPN, conference duals can't go there currently. However, there is a Fox connection between FS1 and BTN. Does that create an opening (I don't know)?
Regarding the appeal of wrestling...you can't tell me that more than a handful of these duals wouldn't yield significant increases in viewership compared to FS1's regular evening schedule. I mean look at the FS1 schedule for the current week as an example. The evening lineup is full of "niche" sports. The only difference in season is that there will be basketball games many nights, but I have no idea if FS1 carries much basketball. I can't really remember seeing it.
Sometimes it's better to keep your eyes closed when scrolling through this board.😑😉
BTN doesn't hold the broadcasting rights, Fox Corporation does and they extended the contract through 2032.
What opening are you talking about? With espn?
ESPN probably could've negotiated the rights when Disney purchased a majority of Fox's assets, but they didn't, so here we are. They spent $52B and wrestling wasn't even an after thought. I think we're right where we belong right now.
TBH- I think BTN and Fox are doing just fine. I appreciate what ESPN does in March, but there's no way they'd push duals more than what Fox is currently doing. ESPN would bury wrestling along with all the other garbage they broadcast.
I have actually never been to an Iowa wrestling meet.. but gonna buy tickets for me and a few of my boys to PSU if able.
Or do i just get 4 season tix donate the other dates... 🤔
Or do i just get 4 season tix donate the other dates... 🤔
I was talking about the possibility of FS1 doing a national broadcast, since that is also Fox. It would give exposure to a wider audience and potentially yield higher ratings for the national network. It is likely a very long shot, but I'm sure they could make a business case for it. Heck, they carry WWE on there, do a double header with Minnesota (featuring Gable), followed by Smackdown.
You’re second paragraph is the exact reason I’m happy ESPN isn’t covering more wrestling duals. Btn does a solid job, I loved the expanded coverage they had last year.
I don’t think ESPN’s heart would be in their coverage. I could definitely see them letting a bowling event of corn hole event run over and we end up missing 15-20 minutes of a dual. Which, would be catastrophic if it was an Iowa meet. Hell, 20 minutes in we’d likely miss a pin from Lee, a tech fall from the maniac DeSanto, and a cradle from Eierman.
