With the basic framework for the 2020-21 college basketball season now (sort of) in place, the primary task for programs across the country is how to fill their newly allotted number of non-conference games before the Nov. 25 start of the campaign.
The most commonly tossed around idea has been a bunch of bubbles — like the ones successfully utilized by both the NBA and the NHL to wrap up their seasons — where a number of teams hole up, play a handful of round-robin games over the course of a couple of weeks, and then move on with their seasons.