More Hoops Games, Bowl Teams on the Way
A longer college basketball season and making more teams eligible for football bowl games are expected to be approved when the NCAA Board of Directors meets today in Indianapolis.
Counting games for basketball could be played as early as the second Friday in November under the proposal forwarded from the NCAA Management Council. That would be a week earlier than currently allowed.
Also up for consideration is a plan to allow basketball teams to either play a 29-game schedule, one more than the current limit for a regular season, or a 27-game limit but include an exempt tournament in which a team could play as many as four games but have it count as only one game against the lower limit. Schools would have the option of which limit they use for scheduling.
The proposed new rules also would allow teams to play in a so-called exempt tournament - the Preseason NIT and Maui Classic are the best known - each season, rather than being limited to twice in four years. Teams couldn't play in the same exempt tournament a second time in that four-year span, however.
The new rule also would consider foreign tours as separate entities from exempt tournaments, so that once every four years a school could schedule a foreign trip between seasons and also play in an exempt event that season.
With the expected approval by the NCAA panel, the changes would become effective this summer. In each case, the alterations would effect Oregon's scheduling for the 2006-07 season, UO coach Ernie Kent said.
The Ducks are currently scheduled for a foreign trip in August, and if allowed would attempt to play in an exempt tournament again this season, as they did last year. Kent said Oregon was also likely to take advantage of an earlier beginning date for counting games.
Also up for approval is an alteration that would no longer require teams to count their conference tournament as one game against the limit. That is being pushed because not all leagues include every team in their tournament.
The NCAA Board of Directors will also consider a change that will allow football teams with a .500 record to play in bowl games. Currently, teams that don't have a winning record can play in a bowl only if it's to fulfill a conference's contract with the bowl.
There are currently 28 approved bowl games, which means 56 of the 117 Division 1-A teams played in bowls after the 2005 season.
There certainly will be at least one more postseason game after the '06 season, with the national championship game one of the four that needs official approval. The championship game will be in addition to the four current games in the Bowl Championship Series.
Also very likely to be played for the first time is the New Mexico Bowl, slated for Albuquerque. It was given a $2 million line of credit by ESPN, and financing is usually the determining factor on a bowl being approved. The New Mexico Bowl will match teams from the Western Athletic Conference and the Mountain West Conference.
The NCAA panel also will review applications from the International Bowl, to be played in Toronto, and the Birmingham Bowl, to be played in Alabama's largest city.
Counting games for basketball could be played as early as the second Friday in November under the proposal forwarded from the NCAA Management Council. That would be a week earlier than currently allowed.
Also up for consideration is a plan to allow basketball teams to either play a 29-game schedule, one more than the current limit for a regular season, or a 27-game limit but include an exempt tournament in which a team could play as many as four games but have it count as only one game against the lower limit. Schools would have the option of which limit they use for scheduling.
The proposed new rules also would allow teams to play in a so-called exempt tournament - the Preseason NIT and Maui Classic are the best known - each season, rather than being limited to twice in four years. Teams couldn't play in the same exempt tournament a second time in that four-year span, however.
The new rule also would consider foreign tours as separate entities from exempt tournaments, so that once every four years a school could schedule a foreign trip between seasons and also play in an exempt event that season.
With the expected approval by the NCAA panel, the changes would become effective this summer. In each case, the alterations would effect Oregon's scheduling for the 2006-07 season, UO coach Ernie Kent said.
The Ducks are currently scheduled for a foreign trip in August, and if allowed would attempt to play in an exempt tournament again this season, as they did last year. Kent said Oregon was also likely to take advantage of an earlier beginning date for counting games.
Also up for approval is an alteration that would no longer require teams to count their conference tournament as one game against the limit. That is being pushed because not all leagues include every team in their tournament.
The NCAA Board of Directors will also consider a change that will allow football teams with a .500 record to play in bowl games. Currently, teams that don't have a winning record can play in a bowl only if it's to fulfill a conference's contract with the bowl.
There are currently 28 approved bowl games, which means 56 of the 117 Division 1-A teams played in bowls after the 2005 season.
There certainly will be at least one more postseason game after the '06 season, with the national championship game one of the four that needs official approval. The championship game will be in addition to the four current games in the Bowl Championship Series.
Also very likely to be played for the first time is the New Mexico Bowl, slated for Albuquerque. It was given a $2 million line of credit by ESPN, and financing is usually the determining factor on a bowl being approved. The New Mexico Bowl will match teams from the Western Athletic Conference and the Mountain West Conference.
The NCAA panel also will review applications from the International Bowl, to be played in Toronto, and the Birmingham Bowl, to be played in Alabama's largest city.
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