Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney last week spoke for all college basketball fans by saying his conference is investigating an expansion to 20 league games. Big Ten teams currently play 18 league games – as do the Pac-12, ACC, SEC and Big 12 – which is a sometimes faulty way to determine conference championships. Arizona, for example, will not play at UCLA and USC in 2016-17. That means the UA and others fill the scheduling blanks with schools like CS Bakersfield and Grand Canyon. Delaney told reporters the jump from 18 to 20 conference games “would certainly be favorable to bring more high-profile games to college basketball earlier in the season.” Currently, the MAAC, a league with Iona, Quinnipiac and Niagara, is the only Division I conference to play a 20-game league schedule.
Move to 20-game league hoops schedule could be in Pac-12's future
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Greg Hansen
Columnist
Greg Hansen
Columnist
