This year's schedule is weird.

[Kamkaizen]

Is the basketball scheduling done randomly?  How is it determined which teams will be played once vs. twice in the regular season?  How is the location of the games determined?  I was under the impression that if we played a team on the road the previous year, and we only play them once this year, this year's game would be a home game for us.  Not so.  We played at Florida last year and again this year, despite the fact that we only play them once.  Also, I have never seen a non-conference game on the schedule after conference play has started.  This year's schedule just seems weird to me, on many levels.  Anyone know how it is determined?

[ChicoHog]

I have no idea either.  It was much easier to determine with 2 divisions. Played home and home against your division and one game against the other rotating home and home each year.  Does anyone know how the Big 10 and ACC do their schedules? 

[intelligence]

Is the basketball scheduling done randomly?  How is it determined which teams will be played once vs. twice in the regular season?  How is the location of the games determined?  I was under the impression that if we played a team on the road the previous year, and we only play them once this year, this year's game would be a home game for us.  Not so.  We played at Florida last year and again this year, despite the fact that we only play them once.  Also, I have never seen a non-conference game on the schedule after conference play has started.  This year's schedule just seems weird to me, on many levels.  Anyone know how it is determined?

Florida has $EC protection from playing road games @ Arkansas. last time they played at Arkansas they were nationally ranked and we stomped the dog stuff out of those weaklings. When it comes to Florida vs Arkansas, we've been consistently slighted by the league in the major sports. This scheduling oddness is just a continuation of that trend.

[Mick Hogger]

It's not random. This is why we play KY at home one year, then away, then a home and home every 3rd year.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/06/sec_announces_schedules_tourna.html

In a press release, the SEC announced that beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year, the league's 14 members will play an 18-game schedule that features at least one game against each conference opponent.  Teams will play one permanent  rival, four rotating opponents that will played home-and-home each season and eight teams that will be played once each year (four at home and four on the road). Each school will play its permanent rival home and away each season.

The permanent rivals will be Alabama-Auburn, Arkansas-Missouri, Florida-Kentucky, Georgia-South Carolina, LSU-Texas A&M, Ole Miss-Mississippi State, and Tennessee-Vanderbilt.

[Kamkaizen]

It's not random. This is why we play KY at home one year, then away, then a home and home every 3rd year.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/06/sec_announces_schedules_tourna.html

In a press release, the SEC announced that beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year, the league's 14 members will play an 18-game schedule that features at least one game against each conference opponent.  Teams will play one permanent  rival, four rotating opponents that will played home-and-home each season and eight teams that will be played once each year (four at home and four on the road). Each school will play its permanent rival home and away each season.

The permanent rivals will be Alabama-Auburn, Arkansas-Missouri, Florida-Kentucky, Georgia-South Carolina, LSU-Texas A&M, Ole Miss-Mississippi State, and Tennessee-Vanderbilt.

Yes, I know about that aspect of the schedule, but this still doesn't explain the reason for playing Florida on the road two years in a row.  I haven't seen anything that explains that.  Have you?

[MountieDawg]

It's not random. This is why we play KY at home one year, then away, then a home and home every 3rd year.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/06/sec_announces_schedules_tourna.html

In a press release, the SEC announced that beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year, the league's 14 members will play an 18-game schedule that features at least one game against each conference opponent.  Teams will play one permanent  rival, four rotating opponents that will played home-and-home each season and eight teams that will be played once each year (four at home and four on the road). Each school will play its permanent rival home and away each season.

The permanent rivals will be Alabama-Auburn, Arkansas-Missouri, Florida-Kentucky, Georgia-South Carolina, LSU-Texas A&M, Ole Miss-Mississippi State, and Tennessee-Vanderbilt.

If its home one year, away the next year and home the next year, I am pretty sure that is the home game every 2nd YEAR

[Kamkaizen]

If its home one year, away the next year and home the next year, I am pretty sure that is the home game every 2nd YEAR

  I don't understand.  Are you saying the 8 teams we play once per year will be played in the following manner:  Away, Away, Home, Home?  That hasn't been the case with the other teams on our schedule.

[DeltaBoy]

I just stopped trying to figure that type of stuff out. It makes my brain hurt.

[Jborohog09]

Yes, I know about that aspect of the schedule, but this still doesn't explain the reason for playing Florida on the road two years in a row.  I haven't seen anything that explains that.  Have you?

Well Vanderbilt had to come here for the second straight year.  I think this year they added two more permanent "rivals" so Arkansas will be playing Missouri, A&M, and LSU home-and-home every year.  Probably why Arkansas goes to UF two years in a row and Vandy came here again.  Start of a new schedule rotation.

[MountieDawg]

  I don't understand.  Are you saying the 8 teams we play once per year will be played in the following manner:  Away, Away, Home, Home?  That hasn't been the case with the other teams on our schedule.

Its every other year which is every 2 years....   Simple math

[BadHog]

It's more convoluted than a congressional bill.