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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3572195, member: 27"]
The New Big East recently announced their basketball schedule, but only for December.  Most unusual.

They have all teams playing 4 to 5 conference games that month.  I presume this was changed in an attempt to get as many conference games in as possible before COVID really kicks in later in the winter.  That rule that teams with even one positive case have to stop playing for 14 days appears to be driving scheduling changes.

Coaches are lobbying hard to get the length of these shutdowns reduced to 10 days.

We know the ACC was initially planning on only playing 2 conference games in December.  I think that changed to 3 later.  I wonder if the delay in announcing ACC schedules is being driven at least in part by last minute efforts to get even more conference games scheduled as soon as possible?

The thinking is probably 
a) conference games are the most important games and need to be prioritized.  If games must be given up, they will be OOC ones.
b) the time frame where the most teams will be infection free and able to play Is probably December.
c) front loading the schedule is desirable because it leaves more time later in the schedule to schedule make up games.  I think with that 14 day shutdown rule, it is highly likely many schools will have significant numbers of games that need to be be made up.  It makes sense to leave gaps open to accommodate this.

Anyway, I am guessing the ACC will do something similar to the NBE and make some changes to get more conferences games in during December.
Still shocked the NCAA is not supporting a schedule model that leverages multiple MTE events designed to be mini-bubbles played most weekends.  Forcing teams to use normal scheduling models during a pandemic seems very short sighted.  As always, I am mystified by NCAA management decisions.
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