So has there been anything on how the geniuses are gonna make conference scheduling work in 2024-2025?

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

I briefly tried searching for some articles on it, and found zilch, even though I remember it being touched on some last year when the news was still coming in about USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten.

Perhaps I was asking Google the wrong questions......

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Bump

 

[HawkHoops80]

Nothing official--but I can take an educated guess that we're going back to a "schedule partner" system--especially for the west coast games and USC/UCLA.
For example, Iowa and Nebraska could be schedule partners so for the West coast road trips Iowa might play USC on a Thursday and UCLA on a Saturday / Nebraska would do UCLA Thursday & USC Saturday.
Assuming they keep the 20 game schedule though, each team is only getting 5 home & aways which means the regular season championship might come down even more to scheduling luck which is unfortunate.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Nothing official--but I can take an educated guess that we're going back to a "schedule partner" system--especially for the west coast games and USC/UCLA.
For example, Iowa and Nebraska could be schedule partners so for the West coast road trips Iowa might play USC on a Thursday and UCLA on a Saturday / Nebraska would do UCLA Thursday & USC Saturday.
Assuming they keep the 20 game schedule though, each team is only getting 5 home & aways which means the regular season championship might come down even more to scheduling luck which is unfortunate.

That's kinda what I was thinking.

Quite the clusterf***, huh..........

 

[BurgHawk87]

The newbs get all road games because f them, that's why.

 

[GunnerHawk]

New commissioner said it will be one of the biggest challenges. Big Ten will need to increase number of conference games at some point.

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

New commissioner said it will be one of the biggest challenges. Big Ten will need to increase number of conference games at some point.

I could see that.

24-game conf schedule.

Reduce pre-conf by 4 games.

Automatic home wins vs schools like Illinois Wesleyan and Southern Missouri State are expendable imo.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

I could see that.

24-game conf schedule.

Reduce pre-conf by 4 games.

Automatic home wins vs schools like Illinois Wesleyan and Southern Missouri State are expendable imo.

Actually, I think those won't be going anywhere. You have to remember, like football, all these programs will still be looking to get their "requisite" number of home games in (i.e. revenue).

For example, Iowa only played 31 regular season games last year. A 24-game conference schedule probably means 12 and 12 home/away. That leaves 7-ish games for OOC. Iowa played 17 home games in the 2022-2023 season and 7 of those in the non-conference.......

So with the new schedule, unless Iowa wants to give up home games for SOS, you'll be looking at about 5-6 home games still and only 2, maybe 3 road games or early season tourneys, and one of those road games will be Iowa State every other year.

 

[ISUBryce]

Actually, I think those won't be going anywhere. You have to remember, like football, all these programs will still be looking to get their "requisite" number of home games in (i.e. revenue).

For example, Iowa only played 31 regular season games last year. A 24-game conference schedule probably means 12 and 12 home/away. That leaves 7-ish games for OOC. Iowa played 17 home games in the 2022-2023 season and 7 of those in the non-conference.......

So with the new schedule, unless Iowa wants to give up home games for SOS, you'll be looking at about 5-6 home games still and only 2, maybe 3 road games or early season tourneys, and one of those road games will be Iowa State every other year.

Yup, it'll be preseason tourney/ISU/sisters of the poor. Quite frankly that doesn't bother me, that'd be a pretty cool schedule.

 

[RossWB]

I briefly tried searching for some articles on it, and found zilch, even though I remember it being touched on some last year when the news was still coming in about USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten.

Perhaps I was asking Google the wrong questions......

Nothing yet.

The focus has been on the 2024 and beyond conference football schedules. Conference basketball schedules aren't set nearly as far in advance as football schedules, so we probably won't see actual schedules until next summer. But hopefully we get a better sense of the scheduling model they plan to use before that.