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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2422713, member: 289"]
Historically, he's played everybody in the pre-conference season and narrowed his rotation after that. But two things have happened to change that. One if that basketball keeps growing and there are more and more good players and thus more and more good teams. Even Cornell and Colgate are not walk-overs any more. Secondly, the NCAA tournament committee has increasingly emphasized the pre-conference games, I think because that tells them how good a conference is. They don't want to just evaluate teams based on what they did in the conference. Thus we seek out better teams to play. i guess I'll add a third: We joined a conference based in the south. We want to play teams in the northeast because that's our normal recruiting area. You can't recruit New York, Philly or DC by playing Clemson. So we play our former Big East rivals not just for nostalgia but to maintain our footprint up here. That means more tough games and less experimentation.
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