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What 2020-21 Could Look Like
Some interesting comments recently attributed to Dan Gavitt who is as close to being an NCAA Basketball Commissioner as anyone. Nothing obviously is etched in stone but here are a few thoughts/possibilities:
1. The season will likely start in late November or early December. Two dates have been earmarked with the November date coming two days before Thanksgiving. With many campuses closing by Thanksgiving, the thought is that the players can achieve a bubble-like experience by remaining on campus while most students are home up until mid-January. The November date is being prioritized.
2. Conference season would take place prior to non-conference play, with emphasis placed on conference games involving airline travel taking place during this period when most students will be home. Therefore, air travel would be minimized once students are back on campus. This also carries the benefit of having enough time to reschedule postponed conference games should this be necessary.
3. The non-conference season would largely be played in February and early March and programs would be encouraged to schedule opponents who are close enough in proximity that visitors could travel by bus. (Does this leave open the possibility of a one-time only GW-Georgetown game?)
4. Missing the NCAA tournament for a second consecutive year would be financially devastating. Therefore, it is entirely conceivable that the NCAA tournament will be played in a bubble comparable to what the NBA has been doing. Because the NCAA administers the event, you would be able to count on daily Covid testing. Plus, this year's Final 4 is scheduled for Indianapolis which happens to be where the NCAA is headquartered. It would be hard to imagine a bubble taking place anywhere else.
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Expect non power 5 schools to be particularly screwed. 1) who pays for all the testing expense, quarantine space. 2) quality non conference wins? Ha,ha! The NET will be useless. Expect the committee to pay themselves on the back for giving Dayton or St. Mary’s at large bids.
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Way too early to know, need to know how the effort to stop the spread is going, when and if a vaccine arrives etc etc
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I'm assuming that the NCAA will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to have some semblance of a regular season that can lead to the NCAA tournament because 2 straight years without the NCAA tournament could possibly ruIn many schools financially. If it comes down to it, I'd imagine that the BCS conferences would fund the testing/accommodations for the lower conferences ONLY because it would benefit them in the long run after the NCAA tournament is played and they get an overwhelming number of teams in the tournament and an overwhelming amount of the money!!
Recently, a poster linked an article written by The Athletic which mentioned how they could have regional bubbles all across the country for non-conference games. The Athletic's plan included 8 teams to a bubble, I think it would be better if they had 16 teams to a bubble and followed the NBA's model of having 4 games a day over a few weeks. You could probably get in about 10 non conference games. Locally, I'd say the University of Maryland(sorry guys!! LOL) would be the best place to have it since they have the biggest facilities amongst the local colleges. I'm guessing that Maryland and Georgetown would give in and agree to a plan like this because of the country's circumstances, and it would be the safest, cheapest and easiest way to get a lot of non-conference games in.
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Actually, if the students are not on campus the Naval Academy probably has the best facilities for a bubble in the area. The point of the bubble is to have enough lodging, catering and training facilities to keep people in one enclosed area, a porus campus (especially one with non-jock students on it) would not be ideal. The Mount and William & Mary might also work.
Of course, there are about a galizion hurdles to overcome befrore this even becomes a possibility to consider. I assume games with fans in attendance are not in the cards.
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The Dude wrote:
Way too early to know, need to know how the effort to stop the spread is going, when and if a vaccine arrives etc etc
Yes. This is why the title of the post included the word "Could", and the post itself includes the word "possibilities", and the phrase "nothing is etched in stone."
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Jon Rothstein[/url][url=]@JonRothstein Sources: The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. has emerged as a candidate to host a preseason bubble during the upcoming college basketball season.
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Jon Rothstein[/url][url=]@JonRothstein Sources: The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. has emerged as a candidate to host a preseason bubble during the upcoming college basketball season.
I responded to/asked Rothstein if this bubble would include just local teams or teams from across the country. If he or someone else responds I'll let you guys know
Like I wrote earlier, I'm hoping this would be a bubble for about 12-16 local teams who would play 4 games a day like the NBA was doing. Having something like this with a lot of local teams would be great this year when you consider that Howard will have incoming 5-star freshman Makur Maker on the team. I'd like to see what he can do against GW, Georgetown, Maryland and other local teams in this type of format. Howard also brought in a former 4-star recruit/transfer from Purdue who may be eligible this year
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Just saw the news of the Big10 "rethink" on the 2020 season start. I had started to think that we would start to see a 2020 season start for basketball was a pipe dream.