How are non-conference schedules arranged?

RedStormNC

RedStormNC

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Outside of special holiday tournaments where I assume its more by school interest/invite, how are most non conference games arranged?

I'm sure sometimes coaches who know each other or long standing match ups are lesser frequent methods.

Could have sworn i read a few years ago there may be some software or web portal where teams put in there availability (date, travel or not) and or financial needs etc.  

Anyone know how the bulk of OOC is done these days?
 
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No insight in answer to your question.

I think in the old days, Looie and pre-Looie, we and a lot of schools played early season games close to home to keep down travel expenses. Subway tokens, baby.
 
I'm sure that the better the team, the more you have to commit to a home and home over 2 years.

Sometimes a coach will help out a coach or program he is friends of.  I think Lavin did that with St. Mary's of CA.

Sometimes it's a long standing strong relationship between the OOC program (St. Francis or LIU) 

You also need several revenue producers to fill the Garden (Syracuse, ND, Duke).  Guessing there is a gate share there.

Some D1 programs willfully will get shellacked in the better team's home court to gain exposure (Miss State).

I think the head coach has a lot to say as to how competitive the OOC schedule is.

 
 
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