[ColoradoTree]

I would imagine that USC no UCLA will lobby hard to minimize conference matches in the Big-Ten they can maximize their flexibility of scheduling non-conference opponents.

BC

Oh, absolutely. They are now joining a conference with a lot more dead weight, tennis-wise, then the conference they're leaving. Their own prospects for NCAA success go down with a full round robin, because they'll have fewer high-quality matches. So, they're absolutely incentivized to reduce the number of Big Ten conference matches.

Whether they'll be successful is another question, as a lot of Big Ten tennis programs are probably excited about a trip out to Southern California and the recruiting opportunity it gives them, so they'll be disinclined to give up an every-other-year trip out west. And even if USC/UCLA are able to push the Big Ten to rotate conference matches, there will be years where they miss out on one of the few consistently decent-to-very-good teams in the Big Ten, like Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern. But at least they'd probably get one of those in the latter rounds of the Big Ten tournament.

[ColoradoTree]

I would imagine that USC no UCLA will lobby hard to minimize conference matches in the Big-Ten they can maximize their flexibility of scheduling non-conference opponents.

BC

Oh, absolutely. They are now joining a conference with a lot more dead weight, tennis-wise, then the conference they're leaving. Their own prospects for NCAA success go down with a full round robin, because they'll have fewer high-quality matches. So, they're absolutely incentivized to reduce the number of Big Ten conference matches.

Whether they'll be successful is another question, as a lot of Big Ten tennis programs are probably excited about a trip out to Southern California and the recruiting opportunity it gives them, so they'll be disinclined to give up an every-other-year trip out west. And even if USC/UCLA are able to push the Big Ten to rotate conference matches, there will be years where they miss out on one of the few consistently decent-to-very-good teams in the Big Ten, like Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern. But at least they'd probably get one of those in the latter rounds of the Big Ten tournament.