The Pac-12 put out a release highlighting the fact that next Monday, all Pac-12 teams will be playing, so somebody had to play in the early window and Stanford got the lucky or unlucky end of the stick. Full schedule is here.
So it's a TV deal. They wanted an all-day Pac-12 hoops marathon event. Still kinda strange they didn't at least make it a later start time like 1:00 PM or 2:00 PM.
pac-12.com
