College basketball season will look very different
In reality, the NCAA's cap of 27 regular season games for this college basketball season is only a very modest reduction from the norm, and its Nov. 25 tip-off marks a delay of only a few weeks. Earlier this week, the NCAA announced its plans for the college basketball season, but really, the picture laid out was merely a framework, limited to just the start date and the parameters for the length of the season — no more than those 27 regular season games and no fewer than 13. The NCAA recommended that schools play at least four out-of-conference competitions before their league seasons, and the likely scenario in the Big Ten is for that to be the case, for the conference to carry on with a standard 20-game regular season to be preceded by a limited non-conference slate that could still involve marquee events like the Big Ten/ACC Challenge and Gavitt Games, and perhaps the Cancun Challenge (in Florida).
