ACC Adding 2 More Games To The Schedule For 2019-2020

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As part of its agreement with the ESPN on the new ACC Network, the ACC will move to a 20-game league schedule for the 2019-20 basketball season.

ACC commissioner John Swofford made the announcement during a Thursday press conference in Charlotte for the ACC Network.

The ACC's teams currently play an 18-game conference schedule. Increasing the number of conference games will provide more content for the new ACC Network. The move to a 20-game schedule coincides with the launch of the ACC Network in 2019.

The move from an 18-game league schedule to a 20-game schedule could have wide-reaching ramifications.

The increase in conference games will mean a decrease in non-conference games.

Fans may hope for fewer "buy games,'' which is the phrase used to describe games between big-time powers who bulk up their home schedules by offering a payday for schools with smaller athletic budgets to come play.

However, coaches may want to off-set the addition of two tough conference games by dropping one or two tough games from their non-conference schedules

 

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With this news, maybe zipp's dream of dropping Uofk from the schedule will become reality. To be fair to zipp, he advocates UofL to stop playing UofK in all sports across the board. Adding 2 more difficult conference games will most likely lead to dropping 2 tough out of conference games. Since the ACC schedule is brutal, the OOC schedule has been watered down. Not many real tough OOC games as it is.

 

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With this news, maybe zipp's dream of dropping Uofk from the schedule will become reality. To be fair to zipp, he advocates UofL to stop playing UofK in all sports across the board. Adding 2 more difficult conference games will most likely lead to dropping 2 tough out of conference games. Since the ACC schedule is brutal, the OOC schedule has been watered down. Not many real tough OOC games as it is.

Lol True. However I'm thinking that the more likely scenario is that UofL keeps Uk on the schedule but, unfortunately, is forced to eliminate almost any other tough OOC game except maybe one or two others.

 

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I like the idea pig suggested yesterday to spread conference games across the entire calendar. You start conference games by mid-December at least. Frankly, I'd prefer to have them start by December 1st. Hell, let's play 24 games in conference.

There would be quality games starting earlier in the season, and these would be games that mean something. No significant number of conference tune-ups, and they wouldn't be missed. You sprinkle the directional schools across the calendar so you don't notice them as much.

Maybe leave a couple of weekends open to schedule a marquee OOC game like LPT. No logic in having that game crammed into a weekday, pre-Xmas, meaningless time slot. If you're gonna play it, put it somewhere that you can promote.

All of that makes too much sense...