Non-UConn AAC Out Of Conference Schedules

[billybud]

Two leagues...CUSA and the West Coast, are taking steps to eliminate low RPI games in their own conference...

West Coast..

The West Coast Conference, which has been top heavy with Gonzaga, St. Mary's, and BYU dominating the 10-team conference in recent years, is going away from true round robin play. Last year, every team played all other conference members twice. To eliminate the RPI penalty of playing bad opponents, though, the conference is dropping two games. Gonzaga, for example, will only play last year’s 9th and 10th-placed finishers once each.

CUSA...

Conference USA, which has 14 basketball-playing members and in 2018 played an 18-game schedule with five home-and-home opponents, is altering theirs to try to insure the top teams play each other. The conference is going to play 14 games at the outset (the other 13 opponents, with one of them being partnered for a home-and-away). Then they are going to play the final four conference games based on standings in tiers. The top 5 teams after 14 games will play each other to finish out the 18-game schedule.

 

[4in16]

Decent.

 

[Drew]

 

[Mokum]

Why the hell do schools do this? I guess they must truly not give a flying !@#$ about the conference or basketball in general. It basically hurts them as a selling point going forward in many ways, no least of which is the conference RPI and Dance partners. It would be better for them if they had a strong schedule and the subsequent losses to go along with that.

There should be a league mandate that you schedule to a certain degree or else you forfeit a portion of your share money. Or something.

Infuriating.

Especially scheduling D2 teams. Come on. This should be flat out forbidden by the conference.

 

[YoungFree]

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Decent.

164 avg RPI...could be stronger.

 

[YoungFree]

Somewhere between 125 and 152 avg RPI depending on those tourney games...Wichita State (minus Rice and Oral Roberts) is going hard on the NCS.

 

[YoungFree]

Especially scheduling D2 teams. Come on. This should be flat out forbidden by the conference.

Agreed...but our opponents avg RPI next year is between 180-187 depending on if we play Oregon or Iowa....we have a bunch of mid-to-high 200 RPI teams and two 300+ RPI teams on our schedule. Wichita State clearly has the harder schedule based on RPI alone.

 

[A10 fan]

Especially scheduling D2 teams. Come on. This should be flat out forbidden by the conference.

D2 games don't figure into the equation though. It's like they weren't played. Better to play a D2 team than a 300+ D1 team.

 

[Drew]

 

[3rdbass]

I guess SMU has fallen on hard times based on that weak schedule. I mean @Georgetown might be the toughest game and that isn't saying much based on recent history.

 

[Wordbomar]

SMU fans are freaking out on twitter. Apparently SMU raised season ticket prices this year and this schedule is garbage. Not to mention puts them in a bind in terms of NCAA tournament hopes. Even if they have a great year their ceiling is a pretty bad seed.

 

[Guapo]

@OneTrickPony thoughts?

 

[OneTrickPony]

@OneTrickPony thoughts?

I won't be tuning in to that part of the schedule...