Conference USA last season adopted a new format for men’s basketball in an effort to boost its chance of placing two teams in the NCAA Tournament and improve the seeding of said teams.
The plan didn’t produce the desired outcome in its first year. League champion Old Dominion was the lone representative in the NCAA Tournament and played as a No. 14 seed.
When the formula was presented, conference athletic directors put a two-year testing window on the project. Western Kentucky AD Todd Stewart told the Daily News last week it’s too early to call whether it was the right change or not, but did offer the second year should be different from the first to validate moving forward with it.