My Private/Parochial Conference Wish

[BEX]

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[ChestRockwell85]

The bottom line is that St. Louis makes perfect sense as the 11th team. The 12th team is a debate. If Gonzaga was not located on the other side of the country they would be a great 12th and would round out an awesome hoops league. I don't think Richmond deserves this conference, they haven't done anything I know of, it might as well be St. Joe's. I'd rather take Dayton to be honest and I'm not sold on them either. We stay at 10 until a 12th team stands out and makes sense. Sucks for St. Louis but we can't be hasty about it.

[stever20]

The bottom line is that St. Louis makes perfect sense as the 11th team. The 12th team is a debate. If Gonzaga was not located on the other side of the country they would be a great 12th and would round out an awesome hoops league. I don't think Richmond deserves this conference, they haven't done anything I know of, it might as well be St. Joe's. I'd rather take Dayton to be honest and I'm not sold on them either. We stay at 10 until a 12th team stands out and makes sense. Sucks for St. Louis but we can't be hasty about it.

The thing that is interesting is watching the AAC schedule- 11 teams can be a huge help for getting teams in. AAC has 4 top teams and they all play each other 2x. They then each avoid one of the other 7 teams one home/one away. So top teams SOS is stronger, and bottom teams have 2 fewer games against top teams and more games with bottom teams. So 5th place team gets 12 games against 6-11 and 6 games against 1-4. Helps them get a 11-7 conference record which could get them in the tourney with a decent OOC schedule- or 12-6 and they are in the tourney almost for sure.

Only bad thing about 11 is a bye each round of the schedule. Can't ever have all 11 teams in conference action the same day.