SEC approves future scheduling....

[Duke Humphrey]

.... men's and women's basketball, tennis, soccer and softball.

Men's Basketball

• Regular season: Each season a team will play two permanent opponents home and away, one rotating opponent home and away, plus the 12 remaining teams in single contests either home or away, for a total of 18 conference games.
• SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: All 16 teams will compete in a single-elimination format, consistent with the current format but with two additional games. The top four seeded teams will continue to receive a bye through the first two rounds of the tournament.

Women's Basketball

• Regular season: Each season a team will play one rotating opponent home and away, plus the 14 remaining teams in single contests either home or away, for a total of 16 conference games.
• SEC Women's Basketball Tournament: All 16 teams will compete in a single-elimination format, consistent with the current format but with two additional games. The top four seeded teams will continue to receive a bye through the first two rounds of the tournament.

Soccer

• Regular season: Soccer will continue to compete in a two-division format. Each season a team will play seven divisional opponents plus three cross-divisional opponents on a rotating basis, for a total of 10 conference games.
• SEC Soccer Championship: 12 teams will compete in a single-elimination format, with the top four seeded teams receiving a first-round bye.

Men's and Women's Tennis

• Regular season: Each team will play a single round robin against all other teams in the conference, consistent with the current format.
• SEC Men's and Women's Tennis Championships: All teams will compete in a single elimination format with the top four seeded teams receiving a bye through the first two rounds of the tournament.

Softball

• Regular season: Each season a team will play a three-game series against eight rotating opponents, for a total of 24 conference games.
• SEC Softball Tournament: All teams will compete in a single-elimination format, consistent with the current format but with two additional games.

https://www.secsports.com/article/34032021/six-sec-sports-future-scheduling-formats-approved

 

[patdog]

So, basically every sport except the two most of us care about. Interesting that basketball is going with a 13-year rotation instead of just going with 3 permanent home-and-home opponents.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

And no permanent opponents for WBB

 

[Cooterpoot]

Well it sucks not being able to play your rival every year in a sport. Let's continue to kill the **** out of college athletics.

 

[Go Budaw]

Why would they not just keep the same format for Mens and Women’s basketball? I realize it isn’t the same even now, but never understood why not. I get that they don’t want the conference tournaments going on at the same time, but they can always just start the women’s season earlier.

 

[WilCoDawg]

It’s just dumb.

 

[Smoked Toag]

Well it sucks not being able to play your rival every year in a sport. Let's continue to kill the **** out of college athletics.

Here's one thing I agree with you on. They'll already started the slippery slope of killing rivalries, and now people are trying to make it professional. It's only going to suck worse and become just side-glance TV entertainment.