The other thing the 20 game schedule is gonna hurt is the quality of exempt tournaments. I suspect we won't see few if any Big10 or ACC teams in our neutral site exempt tourneys
If you're a Big10 or ACC school and you've got 20 conference games, the ACC/Big10 challenge.
Let's take Clemson or Georgia Tech. Both also have a SEC rival (South Carolina & Georgia) they play every year. That's 22 games out of 30 schedule right off the bat.
Instead of playing in the Charleston Classic or the standard neutral site exempt tourney I could see these schools going the route of just hosting an exempt tourney at their home arena with low majors to get the extra home games. Ohio State did this and played Florida H/H with both of them hosting at the rest of the tourney. OSU did this one year and played Notre Dame at Madison Square Garden.
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