Fourteen Is Such An Awkward Number

KCarpenter — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:00:05 +0000

Whether you are against ACC expansion or a fervent proponent of a wildly dominant Atlantic Coast Mega-Conference, there is one thing that we can agree on: Fourteen is a really awkward number. Mike Krzyzewski, supposedly one of the driving forces behind expansion, spent a good deal of Duke’s media day explaining the problem with fourteen team conferences. Citing a distaste for pods, he discussed a two-division based strategy for scheduling that, while reasonable, would yield a nineteen-game conference schedule and an uneven number of home and away games. While Krzyzewski kind of brushes it off, this is the kind of [...]

Well, That’s One Way to Avoid a Home Loss (bcc: Tom Crean)

rtmsf — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:55:43 +0000

RTC typically doesn’t have a lot of SWAC coverage, other than our biweekly correspondent updates on the conference managed faithfully and superbly by HBCUSportsBlog’s inimitable JC. But thanks to a loyal tipster (h/t Bluejay Basketball), we were alerted to a peculiar situation out of that bottom-dwelling league from a game earlier this week. Er, almost a game. From the Monroe (La) News-Star:

The Talladega College (NAIA) men’s basketball team arrived at Grambling’s Assembly Center on Tuesday expecting a game. There was no game to be played. Talladega coach Matt Cross said the team was initially told that the scheduled 7 p.m. game had [...]

scheduling problems – Rush The Court

Fourteen Is Such An Awkward Number

Well, That’s One Way to Avoid a Home Loss (bcc: Tom Crean)