New Challenge Offers Schedule Help
The Mountain West Conference and Missouri Valley Conference plan to announce today an agreement to pit men's basketball teams from each league against one another starting next season, in the fashion of the annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
Sources said the agreement calls for all nine Mountain West teams to play nine of the 10 Missouri Valley teams in November and December each season. The exact match-ups and television arrangements have not been determined.
The agreement calls for five of the nine annual games to be played on one league's home courts one season, and on the other league's home courts the following season.
The Mountain West has been working on such a deal for about the last six months, hoping to help its teams improve their home schedules -- seen as a key element in building their resumes for the NCAA Tournament. Last season, the Mountain West ranked as the ninth-best league in the country, according to the Ratings Percentage Index, with the Missouri Valley just ahead in eighth.
The Missouri Valley Conference includes teams such as Drake, Creighton, Bradley and Southern Illinois.
Sources said the agreement calls for all nine Mountain West teams to play nine of the 10 Missouri Valley teams in November and December each season. The exact match-ups and television arrangements have not been determined.
The agreement calls for five of the nine annual games to be played on one league's home courts one season, and on the other league's home courts the following season.
The Mountain West has been working on such a deal for about the last six months, hoping to help its teams improve their home schedules -- seen as a key element in building their resumes for the NCAA Tournament. Last season, the Mountain West ranked as the ninth-best league in the country, according to the Ratings Percentage Index, with the Missouri Valley just ahead in eighth.
The Missouri Valley Conference includes teams such as Drake, Creighton, Bradley and Southern Illinois.
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1 Comments:
That is very cool. The mtn. should broadcast the games played at MWC schools, and maybe ESPN will broadcast some of the games played at the MVC schools.
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