Conference USA’s new basketball scheduling could benefit the West Coast Conference

Would it Work for the WCC?

Would the same type of scheduling work for the West Coast Conference? Yes.

Assuming it works for Conference USA, of course.

Things would have to work a little differently for the WCC. Instead of 14 teams like C-USA has, there’s only 10 teams out west.

The WCC has already announced their own changes to their conference scheduling, most notably the reduction from 18 conference games to 16.

So let’s take the Conference USA’s idea and make it fit for the WCC.

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Here’s what it would look like:

• Each team will play every other team in conference once, and three of the nine teams twice, rotating over a three-year period.
• For the last four conference games, the teams will be split into two tiers based on the standings (1-5, 6-10)
• Each team will play the other teams in their tier once.
• Each team will play two home games and two road games, based on a prearranged formula.
• When it comes to tournament seeding, the teams will be stuck in their tier (i.e. a Tier 2 team can’t be seeded higher than sixth or lower than tenth).

Pretty similar to what Conference USA is doing, with a few tweaks because of the four fewer teams.

That type of schedule would accomplish exactly what it’s meant to do – make sure that the top teams maximize their opportunity to play other top teams in the conference.

It’s all about that strength of schedule.

But it won’t hurt to let Conference USA work out all the kinks first.