Big Ten Won’t Expand Conference Basketball Schedules And Plans 15-team Tournament For Next Year – News18

ROSEMONT, Ill.: The Big Ten plans to stay with a 20-recreation convention schedule for males’s basketball and an 18-recreation schedule for girls’s basketball when the league expands to 18 groups subsequent 12 months.

The league additionally introduced Tuesday that 15 of the 18 members will qualify for the Big Ten males’s and girls’s basketball tournaments as soon as Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington arrive from the Pac-12. The Big Ten presently permits all 14 of its members to take part within the convention tournaments.

The Big Ten introduced the 15-team match would keep the occasion’s present 5-day schedule. The new format additionally could have the highest 4 seeds incomes a double bye and the fifth by way of ninth seeds incomes a single bye.

Big Ten officers stated the convention common-season schedules had been remaining at 20 for the lads and 18 for the ladies partly to permit for non-convention scheduling flexibility and to stay per the schedule codecs of peer conferences. The league plans to contemplate aggressive stability, geography and conventional rivalries in figuring out which opponents a crew will face twice in a season.

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