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Big Ten Sticking With 20-Game Conference Schedule, Tournament Going to 15 Teams With Additions of Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington
Big Ten conference schedules will remain at 20 games but the league will move forward with a 15-team conference tournament after its expansion next season.
BIG TEN STICKING WITH 20-GAME CONFERENCE SCHEDULE, TOURNAMENT GOING TO 15 TEAMS WITH ADDITIONS OF OREGON, UCLA, USC AND WASHINGTON
Changes are coming with the Big Ten's expansion to 18 teams, but one thing that will remain the same is the number of conference games played by the league's teams.
With Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington all joining the Big Ten basketball ranks starting in the 2024-25 season, each Big Ten team will continue to play 20 conference games each year, per College Hoops Today.
One thing that is changing, however, is the Big Ten Tournament, which will move to a 15-team bracket starting with the 2025 tourney.
A 15-team bracket would mean that the bottom three teams in the conference are excluded from conference tournament action. No seed lower than the No. 8 Michigan State men's team in 2017 has ever won the Big Ten Tournament.
Just sayin': With 15 teams only the #1 seed gets a bye in the 1st round.
