Iowa basketball fans are crying about tip-time update that favors Washington

The Washington Huskies take on the Iowa Hawkeyes at home on Wednesday, and the tip time is brutal if you are an Iowa Hawkeyes fan. They won't be able to watch their team play until 10 pm CT, and the game will end after midnight. It's part of the problem with West Coast teams being in the Big Ten, but it definitely favors Washington.

Only in theory, as Iowa players will also be playing into the later hours based on their body clocks, but traveling over early and being in their twenties probably won't matter much at all. However, Iowa fans are frustrated with it. Rightfully so. Here's a sample of social media posts from Iowa fans about the tip time:

The Washington Huskies vs. Iowa tips off at 8 pm PST as it's in Seattle

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The one comment that should be isolated from the above social media posts is the person who said, "Such a brutal sports time zone." Hopefully, he was talking about living on the East Coast. Being a sports fan in the Pacific time zone is the best. Even the early games for football or basketball are only at like 9 am. The late games are at 8 pm (like this one).

The only time West Coasters get to taste what East Coasters feel like is when something happens in Hawaii. Which is few and far between, but that's legitimately the middle of the night for east coasters, so even then, west coast is the best coast for sports fandom.

The only pushback that you could make is that the East Coast often controls the sports narrative, and not enough eyes are on the product for New Yorkers, who are fast asleep when this game concludes.

You can catch this game at Alaska Airlines Arena or on the Big Ten Network. It's an important quad-1 opportunity for the Huskies.