Conf USA doing round robin/flex scheduling next year for Bball
Conference USA will be moving to a conference schedule that is a round robin and then "podding" teams into categories, with teams in a pod playing each other again. This is very similar to Brian's proposed Big Ten schedule.
"We're going to play 13 games and your travel partner twice, which would be Western Kentucky for us," said D'Antoni. "Then they are going to seed the schools. If you finish in the top five, No. 1 through No. 5 will play each other for the next four games to get 18 games.
They are hoping that this will increase their chances to get a second team into the tournament.
Mark D’antoni is coaching Western Kentucky now? MSU must be pissed.
It's Danny D'Antoni, who I believe is a distant cousin, but you are probably in the right family, so close enough. It's an easy enough mistake to make, as they both coach at programs that genrally don't make a lot of noise.
Also for clarity’s sake: Rick Stansbury is the coach at WKU (my hometown), Not that D’Antoni is the coach at Marshall.
It’s weird that they’d pair WKU and Marshall when the “100 Miles of Hate” is between WKU and MTSU.
This will be interesting. Glad to see someone try this. Brian should be happy
But if all of the top teams go 2-2 vs. each other it won't achieve its intended purpose.
Good way to help SoS for the CUSA teams vying for NCAA tournament bids. The bottom of that conference is a big anchor.
I’d like to do it. Play everybody once. Then split it to into two halves, have everybody in the top half play each other and everybody in the bottom half play each other. Ideally, you’d do home and away for the second half, but 25 conference games might be too much. Would be much more feasible had we not expanded to 14 teams
How will seeding work for the conference tournament? Will the initial top pod have the higher seeds, or will it still be overall conference record?
your original pod once the last 4 games of the season are played. So if you're 1st after the first 14 games, you can't finish lower than 5th. If you're 10th after the first 14 games, you can't finish higher than 6th.
The last pod only has 4 teams so I don't know how they get to 18 games. Play another pod team a 3rd time during the season? Or save everyone the time and energy and only play 17 games.
should do away with conference tourneys
top half, plus bottom half winner for a 8 team tourny?
They are arranged into pods of 5, so 1-5 play each other, 6-10, 11-15.
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