This upcoming basketball season, the conference schedule won't be finalized until after the first seven weeks of conference play are complete. At that point, the teams will be split into three tiers and the members of each tier will play their remaining conference games against each other only.
This is something the Sun Belt apparently invented. The idea is that this will help get more postseason bids for the conference, presumably by giving the top 2 or 3 teams a chance to build RPI.
Doc Sadler hates it (https://www.sunherald.com/sports/colleg … 61695.html) and I can see where it would make his job more difficult. That said, I'll withhold judgment, although I doubt this gimmick will turn CUSA into a league that has multiple teams in the NCAA tournament.
Bring back Reed V. "Pie" TurkPalmer Eustachy.