SAN ANTONIO -- Conference USA has altered its scheduling model for men’s and women’s basketball in 2020-21 and will now feature contests typically played on back-to-back days in an effort to promote health and safety protocols for the Covid-19 impacted season.
The new model announced on Thursday will have teams play back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday, instead of Thursday and Saturday as originally decided. C-USA also implemented a requirement of at least 21 hours in between tipoffs to provide appropriate rest periods.
In addition to reducing the amount of travel, moving to this Friday-Saturday format will allow teams to play and efficiently complete their testing protocol each week.
The men’s basketball Roadrunners will now open conference play at Rice on Fri., Jan. 1 and will then face the Owls on Jan. 2. UTSA hosts home two-game matchups with North Texas (Jan. 8-9), Southern Miss (Jan. 22-23), Florida Atlantic (Feb. 12-13) and UAB (Feb. 26-27), and will travel to face Rice, Louisiana Tech (Jan. 15-16), FIU (Feb. 5-6) and Charlotte (Feb. 19-20). UTSA’s travel partner, UTEP, will face UTSA in San Antonio on Thursday, Jan. 28, before the Roadrunners venture to El Paso on Sat., Jan. 30.
The new model announced on Thursday will have teams play back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday, instead of Thursday and Saturday as originally decided. C-USA also implemented a requirement of at least 21 hours in between tipoffs to provide appropriate rest periods.
In addition to reducing the amount of travel, moving to this Friday-Saturday format will allow teams to play and efficiently complete their testing protocol each week.
The men’s basketball Roadrunners will now open conference play at Rice on Fri., Jan. 1 and will then face the Owls on Jan. 2. UTSA hosts home two-game matchups with North Texas (Jan. 8-9), Southern Miss (Jan. 22-23), Florida Atlantic (Feb. 12-13) and UAB (Feb. 26-27), and will travel to face Rice, Louisiana Tech (Jan. 15-16), FIU (Feb. 5-6) and Charlotte (Feb. 19-20). UTSA’s travel partner, UTEP, will face UTSA in San Antonio on Thursday, Jan. 28, before the Roadrunners venture to El Paso on Sat., Jan. 30.
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