I've already posted a similar thread about a month back, but let's try a different angle. To my knowledge, little at all has been said about how the esteemed geniuses at the B10 HQ plan to sort out the clusterf*** of a 16 team conference basketball schedule (......which btw only gets more clusterf***y if these idiot programs and conferences keep abandoning ship and condensing the total number of major conferences.......imagine the Big Ten trying to make a balanced 32-game schedule with a f***ing 20 or 24 team conference..........dumbasses, all of them).
So in this thread, let's use the offseason to figure out, in our humble opinion, what the best way (or the right way) would be for the Big Ten's future basketball scheduling, once USC and UCLA join.
Here's my proposal:
- 22 game conference schedule (11 home/11 away)
- 7 opponents played twice (14 games split H/A), 8 opponents played once (4H/4A)
- Each school is guaranteed one permanent two-game series against a rival each year while the other 6 series will rotate among the 14 other schools:
-USC vs UCLA
-Iowa vs Illinois
-Indiana vs Purdue
-Maryland vs Rutgers
-Ohio State vs Penn State
-Michigan vs Michigan State
-Wisconsin vs Minnesota
-Nebraska vs Northwestern
- 9 non-conference games (potentially 5+ home games, with goal being at least 16-17 home games. This leaves room for a pre-conference tourney and/or other road matchups, such as AT Iowa State every other year)
So apply that and you could have a 2024-2025 schedule like this:
vs Jacksonville
vs Northeastern
vs Missouri
*Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off:
(Iowa, Oklahoma State, Tulane, San Diego State)
vs Drexel
At Virginia Tech
At Minnesota**
vs Iowa State
vs Western Illinois
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Ohio State
At Maryland
At Wisconsin
Indiana
At Michigan
USC
At Nebraska
At Illinois
Michigan
At Penn State
Rutgers
At Indiana
Purdue
Michigan State
At USC
At UCLA
Maryland
Minnesota
At Northwestern
Wisconsin
Illinois
So in this thread, let's use the offseason to figure out, in our humble opinion, what the best way (or the right way) would be for the Big Ten's future basketball scheduling, once USC and UCLA join.
Here's my proposal:
- 22 game conference schedule (11 home/11 away)
- 7 opponents played twice (14 games split H/A), 8 opponents played once (4H/4A)
- Each school is guaranteed one permanent two-game series against a rival each year while the other 6 series will rotate among the 14 other schools:
-USC vs UCLA
-Iowa vs Illinois
-Indiana vs Purdue
-Maryland vs Rutgers
-Ohio State vs Penn State
-Michigan vs Michigan State
-Wisconsin vs Minnesota
-Nebraska vs Northwestern
- 9 non-conference games (potentially 5+ home games, with goal being at least 16-17 home games. This leaves room for a pre-conference tourney and/or other road matchups, such as AT Iowa State every other year)
So apply that and you could have a 2024-2025 schedule like this:
vs Jacksonville
vs Northeastern
vs Missouri
*Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off:
(Iowa, Oklahoma State, Tulane, San Diego State)
vs Drexel
At Virginia Tech
At Minnesota**
vs Iowa State
vs Western Illinois
***************************
Ohio State
At Maryland
At Wisconsin
Indiana
At Michigan
USC
At Nebraska
At Illinois
Michigan
At Penn State
Rutgers
At Indiana
Purdue
Michigan State
At USC
At UCLA
Maryland
Minnesota
At Northwestern
Wisconsin
Illinois
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