(10-08-2015 11:03 AM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  

(10-08-2015 10:59 AM)CajunAmos Wrote:  I personally don't like 18 games. I'd rather a 16 game conference schedule but I guess it makes it tough for some teams to bring in extra game or pay for them. I would have thought it would allow you more flexibility in your OOC scheduling, but that's just me.

For basketball, my preference would have been going with two 6 team divisions and a 16 game schedule where you play everyone in your division home/home every year and all six teams from the other division rotating home/away every other year. It seems that would have minimized longer travel in conference and more flexibility to schedule games closer to home. JMO

I like this plan but maybe others could chime in on why divisions in basketball are not good.

What I like about it is you play everyone so there are methods of tie breakers. For the conference tournament if the concern is having a heavy/light division you could always guarantee the two division winners a bye to the quarters and select the next 6 best records.