Quote Originally Posted by UTEopia View Post
We now play 18, so it would also give us one more quality home game. I wonder if it would cause coaches to eliminate some of the better OOC competition. Ideally, I would like to see an OOC basketball schedule that has 4 high quality opponents, 4 mid-level opponents and 4 games you should never lose.
I wouldn't mind going even further - go to 22 conference games for a true round robin.

Coaches/ADs would be afraid the extra losses would hurt them in selection. But (1) selection relies less and less on W/L record and more and more on other things, and (2) if all P5s play more conference games, there are fewer quality games for mid-majors. The P5s can hurt the mid-major SOS while boosting their own.