The Big Sky Conference (BSC) announced that the conference season will be shortened to a 16-game season for 2020-2021 in a press release.
Each school has the choice to replace the four-conference games with non-conference games. The BSC season will tip-off on or after New Year’s Eve.
“This one-year adjustment to our conference basketball schedules is an appropriate measure that delivers significant cost savings to our member institutions while providing our basketball programs with more flexibility in their non-conference scheduling,” BSC Commissioner Tom Wistrcill said in a press release. “I applaud our schools’ leaders for striking the right balance between providing opportunities for our student-athletes to compete while recognizing the need to make changes for the upcoming year.”
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Each BSC school for men’s and women’s basketball will play six teams twice and four teams once for the conference season0. “Geographic proximity,” or where schools are located among each other, will determine which schools each team will face once or twice.
CenturyLink Arena in Boise will host the BSC Basketball Championships for men’s and women’s basketball for the third straight year. It is scheduled from March 8-13, 2021.
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