Quote:DALLAS – Conference USA men’s and women’s basketball will move to a divisional standings format for the 2020-21 season, as approved by the league’s Board of Directors.

C-USA will feature East and West divisions and will crown divisional champions at the conclusion of conference play in March. Standings will be based on overall conference winning percentage. In addition, divisional seeding will be utilized for the C-USA Men’s and Women’s Championships. A cross-divisional bracket will be used to determine first-round matchups.

The East Division will be comprised of Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion and WKU. Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP and UTSA will make up the West Division.

Men’s and women’s conference competition begins Friday, leading up to the 2021 Air Force Reserve C-USA Basketball Championships presented by Baylor, Scott & White Sports Performance Center at The Star, scheduled for March 10-13 in Frisco, Texas. This will be the fourth year that the event will be held in Frisco.

Nothing in that release talks about how many teams make it from each division.

Conventional wisdom would say top six of seven (in order to host 12 teams as in the past)

My guess is they are keeping the options open to see what the Covid situation is in March, before deciding between 8 or 12 teams.

ETA: Never mind... found the details in the weekly press release. It’s 6 per division to qualify with the top two receiving the first round bye.

https://conferenceusa.com/documents/2020...elease.pdf