The National Championship Game starts at 9:20 p.m. EDT, which is about two hours later than it should start. Some of us have to get to bed!
If you love college basketball and have to be up early on Tuesday morning, prepare to be really tired.
Monday night’s National Championship Game between Texas Tech and Virginia doesn’t start until 9:20 p.m. ET, so prepare to stay up well past your bedtime to see which team wins this defensive struggle.
This means a champion likely won’t be crowned until 11:30 p.m. EDT. This is further proof that the Eastern Time Zone is the worst time zone, especially for sports fans.
Godspeed if you have an early wake-up call on Tuesday morning because that’s going to be a quick turnaround.
If only this could have been prevented and maximized the audience for the championship game and played on a Saturday night with tip time at 8 p.m. EDT.
That way, fans won’t have to worry about falling asleep (not because of the boring play) because they’ve been up since 6 a.m. and worked all Monday.
The same applies to college football who has their National Championship Game on a Monday night.
Newsflash: People don’t like watching championship events on Monday nights while they fight off a visit from Mr. Sandman.
The worst of it all is the hard-working journalists, media members and all the people working at the stadium behind the scenes to make sure this goes off smoothly. They’ll be burning the midnight oil and hoping to file all their stories and get to bed before the crow sings in the morning.
So if you see a co-worker Tuesday morning who looks like absolute death, be kind and offer to get them a cup of coffee or a can of Coke to give them a much-needed dose of caffeine after staying up all night for the biggest college basketball game of the year.