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Message: [QUOTE="BFieldHusky, post: 3203594, member: 2154"] Very excited for this once we join the conference. Playing 20 regular season games plus conference tournament games against Top 150 competition will do wonders for our strength of schedule and NET. I am curious how Fox/Big East will schedule these 2 additional games? For example, the Big Ten played 20 games last year, and had 2 conference games played at the end of November/early December. Big East could do this, or could play these 2 games toward the middle of December before conference play would typically start. With 11 teams in the Big East, 1 team will always have a "bye." The ACC, going to 20 games this year, is having teams open their season with ACC games this year, but that might be more of a product of launching the ACC Network. Will be interesting what Hurley's strategy is now OOC. Obviously we had to load up in the American, and often played our hardest opponents in November. While it is still good to play some national teams OOC (Florida, Indiana at MSG this year) there also needs to be a balance as we will only have 10-11 OOC games now. And remember the Big East has the Big 12 challenge, and the Gavitt games. In 2020-2021 for example we could have the 20 Big East games, the road game against Florida, a Big 12 challenge game, and a Gavitt game. There is 23 games already scheduled. We may see UConn not play in 3 day early season tournaments as much with this new schedule. [/QUOTE]