(03-22-2018 12:28 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(03-22-2018 11:36 AM)Bogg Wrote:  

(03-20-2018 09:07 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(03-20-2018 07:28 PM)Bogg Wrote:  

(03-20-2018 07:18 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Until the selection committee starts to take teams at 17-15 I'm not so sure 20 conference games matters that much.

Matters to the media partners. Very likely the next media deal is greater per team with 11 teams and 20 conference games because of the larger quantity of guaranteed quality games over 10 teams and 18 conference games. My expectation is that the BE adds one school (and my guess is St Louis) while negotiating their next media rights deal unless UConn shakes loose prior to that.

11 teams 20 conference games would be 110 games
12 teams 18 conference games would be 108 games

so not that big of a difference. And it gets them an extra game each game cycle. Plus more variety, and the ability to avoid quite frankly some matchups 2x.

That's slightly less content with an additional mouth to feed, plus you lose the double round robin which the league has pretty emphatically been in favor of. You're likely not maximizing your return there.

2 games with the caveat that you would get an extra 6-7 home OOC games with the extra team....

The Round Robin is all nice and quaint, but it's screwing the Big East. Having 10-8 and 9-9 teams is awesome, but screws your seeds.

Those OOC games are likely to be either unattractive buy games (Saint Louis versus UMKC isn't exactly ratings gold) or split between other providers based on who the home team is. This isn't that hard - 11/20 gets me more games per team than 12/18 if I'm Fox.