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If VCU leaves, we should go with them. But I think the A10 is fine for now.

The National Collegiate Conference that someone mentioned (I think xubrew and Chris R both had a version of it) sounds like the best idea, although perhaps too hard to pull off.

If you can find 24 schools in 3 separate conferences, each with an auto-bid, you can schedule 14 conference games with home-and-home plus at the end each conference's #1 plays each other (with each team getting one game home and one away), and the #2s play each other, etc. 16 game 'conference' schedule. Perfect.

But are there 24 schools that would make sense?

West: Gonzaga, St Mary's, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, BYU, ??, ??
Midwest: Wichita State, Dayton, St. Louis, Illinois State, Belmont, ??, ??, ??
East: VCU, UMass, Richmond, Davidson, Rhode Island, George Mason, ??, ??

I don't really see three divisions/conferences of teams worth taking. And if it's only two divisions, the best option would really just be the top A10 teams + Wichita State and then the tops of WCC and MWC.

It'd be better with smaller conferences, but you could do it now if you wanted with just the A10, MWC, and WCC. They are 14, 11, and 10 teams, respectively. Top 10 in each conference each play two games against each other. Then something weird with the bottom 4 A10 teams and last place MWC team such that they all get 2 games but nobody plays each other twice. (Although with that setup the A10 teams could end up playing each other for the 3rd time in the same season.)

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