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[QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 3203754, member: 1559"]
The NCAA rules are 29 regular season games or 27 regular season games plus a tournament.  The Big East has the Big 12 Challenge (10 teams) and the Gavitt games (8 teams), so UConn would play probably 21 or 22 required BE games per year, although the Gavitt games expire in 2022, but they could be renewed.

Let's say UConn has 22 games scheduled and half are at home or 11 games.  They have to schedule another 9 games or 7 games plus a tournament.  The problem is that UConn typically only plays 10 to 12 road games per year, so UConn is looking at potentially going to 13 to 14 road games per year moving to the Big East.  Thus, scheduling non-conference away games will become very precious.

One last thought.  It seems all conferences are moving to a 20 game conference season.  This will make scheduling out of conference games very difficult if you want a home and home.  It's now more apparent that UConn basketball could not remain in the AAC if a 20 game conference schedule was enacted as UConn would have gained an additional conference home and road game.  That would have made home attendance even more difficult.  With 11 teams now in the AAC, a round robin schedule equals 20 games.
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