The Southwestern Athletic Conference’s men’s basketball teams have, year after year, traveled west to play Pac-12 Conference schools. A twist is coming in 2022: Pac-12 teams will start to travel to play the SWAC’s historically Black colleges and universities.
Under a four-year scheduling arrangement that the leagues are expected to announce on Monday, Pac-12 and SWAC programs will stage home-and-home games beginning next year. The partnership is unusual because Power 5 programs usually build their nonconference schedules around neutral site matchups that are made-for-TV showdowns against big-name brands, or home games that involve paying less wealthy and prominent schools to play.