Because there are at least 4-5 B1G teams playing OOC games every night and only 2 BTN time slots for them.
This. On Tuesday there were three BTN games already, one of which required Iowa to tip off at 9 PM local, and then six additional BTN+ games. When would these games air? 2 PM on a weekday?
NU is the least popular team in the conference and is not expected to be good this year. Networks will push us to streaming whenever they can. We have 20 conference games and exactly one of them is not relegated to BTN. It is what it is.