Why not expand the number of games played overall. No reason why the start of the college basketball season cannot be moved up to 10/31-11/1 so that more can be played. Basketball practice starts the last weekend of September at most programs. Move the season up 2 weeks and you start 9/15 which still gives the students 3 weeks before practice starts up.

Afterall even with the multiple post season tournaments, the vast majority of programs seasons are over by March 10-15th. With about 350 D1 programs, you have 66 in the NCAA, 32 in NIT, 16 in one of the other tournaments and 24 in the other so that totals up to 138 which is only 40% of all teams at most. Half of those 138 are eliminated in the first game of the tourneys they play in which drops the % playing down to 20 by March 20th.