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Friday offseason wishlist 2.0: Creative scheduling

Things are happening without happening. That much is for sure.

Gonzaga continued their dominance. UCLA continued their weird domino effect from Tom Izzo’s tantrum. Baylor continued bayloring. And Houston continued to beat double-digit seeds.

Yet with the tournament reaching an end of the next three days, I still a bone to pick with the scheduling from this past regular season. It was fine but lacked total creativity. I want creativity.

Item #1: Round robin to begin the conference season

You may remember my plea for the Big Ten to schedule a round robin, neutral-site regular season to ensure some measure of opponent balance amidst a pandemic.