CBB 20/21 season, non-ku

[jfish26]

Entire NCAA Tourney will be played in Indiana, mostly in Indy.

As it should be. Play Hinkle, Bankers Life, IUIPUI and then play the games at the dome.

I'm not sure there is a responsible way to hold the tournament in present conditions. I'd imagine, though, that Indianapolis healthcare providers think that this way is a particularly irresponsible one.

[Deleted User 89]

32-team with only conference winners?

32-team with just the top 32 teams based on consensus of polls?

[ousdahl]

8 teams in a nba-style best of 7.

KU plus whatever 7 teams are ready to pretend they can somehow get 4 outta 7 against Bill Fucking Self.

[jfish26]

It is absolutely true that a smaller field would exponentially reduce risk.

Or, we could just postpone the tournament until it can be held safely.

[NewtonHawk11]

Tashiwebe or however his name is exactly spelled is moving on from West Va to Kentucky.

[Deleted User 863]

It is absolutely true that a smaller field would exponentially reduce risk.

Or, we could just postpone the tournament until it can be held safely.

It would also exponentially reduce the amount of television revenue for the NCAA.

Safety is secondary.

[pdub]

If it was 32 teams, you couldn't give auto berths for conference winners.
That would especially screw the Big 12 and Big 10 this season.
The NCAA would probably lean on their newish NET score.

[jfish26]

If it was 32 teams, you couldn't give auto berths for conference winners.
That would especially screw the Big 12 and Big 10 this season.
The NCAA would probably lean on their newish NET score.

I would think building the entire field out of “at large” would disproportionately advantage Power 5 conferences. By a lot.

[sdoyel]

https://twitter.com/Big12Conference/sta ... 85504?s=20

Baylor has already dodged Texas, now WVU.

They've got some big-time games to makeup.

[Deleted User 863]

No clue how they can fit in make up games at this point. More likely that regular season titles won't be a thing this year with teams (from all conferences) playing different amounts of games. Game cancelations are likely to increase, not decrease over the next month or so it seems like.

[CrimsonNBlue]

It's a good year to have paused the Big 12/SEC challenge.

Still could happen.

[NDballer13]

No clue how they can fit in make up games at this point. More likely that regular season titles won't be a thing this year with teams (from all conferences) playing different amounts of games. Game cancelations are likely to increase, not decrease over the next month or so it seems like.

There's a full 10 days between the last scheduled game and the start of the Big 12 tourney. I imagine that's what they plan to use that full week plus for. I also wouldn't be surprised to see some Thursday games in the conference this year.

[Cascadia]

No clue how they can fit in make up games at this point. More likely that regular season titles won't be a thing this year with teams (from all conferences) playing different amounts of games. Game cancelations are likely to increase, not decrease over the next month or so it seems like.

There's a full 10 days between the last scheduled game and the start of the Big 12 tourney. I imagine that's what they plan to use that full week plus for. I also wouldn't be surprised to see some Thursday games in the conference this year.

Man.......it's like you follow the team and conference and know what the fuck you're talking about.

[Deleted User 863]

There is always 4 or so days between the end of conference play and the conference tournament for the big 12...so they didn't add much time (i wonder if that time wouldn't be better spent social distancing/isolating/ramping up testing so that tournaments don't get fucked up where half the bracket gets exposed and has to sit out and the tournament gets cancelled).

If teams have 4+ games to make up they aren't going to cram them into 10 days before beginning single elimination tournaments where they play multiple days in a row.

1 or 2 games to make up? Sure maybe.

Villanova hasn't played a game since December 23rd and has already cancelled all of their games until January 19th.

3 ACC games postponed last Saturday. 1 for Wednesday this week is already postponed.

[Cascadia]

No clue how they can fit in make up games at this point.

There's a full 10 days between the last scheduled game and the start of the Big 12 tourney.

[NDballer13]

There is always 4 or so days between the end of conference play and the conference tournament for the big 12...so they didn't add much time (i wonder if that time wouldn't be better spent social distancing/isolating/ramping up testing so that tournaments don't get fucked up where half the bracket gets exposed and has to sit out and the tournament gets cancelled).

If teams have 4+ games to make up they aren't going to cram them into 10 days before beginning single elimination tournaments where they play multiple days in a row.

1 or 2 games to make up? Sure maybe.

Villanova hasn't played a game since December 23rd and has already cancelled all of their games until January 19th.

3 ACC games postponed last Saturday. 1 for Wednesday this week is already postponed.

There has always been 4 days, yes, but this is the first time there has been a full week PLUS those 4 days. I also mentioned the possibility of Thursday games so a team isn't trying to "cram" games into 10 days.

Most Big 12 weeks are played Monday/Saturday or Tuesday/Saturday. If more games get postponed, don't be surprised to see a Monday/Thursday/Saturday week for a couple teams.

[Deleted User 863]

Next 3 cancelled for WVU....that 10 day window is filling up quick.

[PhDhawk]

Next 3 cancelled for WVU....that 10 day window is filling up quick.

who cares!?

6 regular season games is plenty to determine who should compete for a title.

[Deleted User 89]

just ask tOSU

[PhDhawk]

AHHHH college sports.

Where 6 games means more than 31.