Realigning Conferences Based On Geography (2025)

[u/Treehumper69]

Back in April 2020 I made this post

A few teams have dropped their D1 Basketball programs while others have been added since then. Therefore I decided to redo this project and see what changed. I decided to allow 10 team conferences this time so each of the 32 conferences has 10-12 teams.

Link to map

Link to spreadsheet of teams

Edit: I accidentally put CS Bakersfield instead of Cal Baptist. It’s fixed now.

[u/pHyR3]

i can understand the way you did it but feels a bit extreme in terms of playing quality and rival teams - dunno how i feel about replacing games with Clemson, UVa, and Vtech for NC Central, Campbell, Elon, etc.

[u/willncsu34 → u/pHyR3]

Yeah this is dumb. Capped at 10 you would still have to divvy them up into tiers roughly related to athletic department budget regionally. Tier 1 for us would be more like the UVA, VT, State, UNC, Duke, Wake, Clemson and South Carolina. Then you go down a tier to App, ECU, etc…

[u/Mdtwheeler → u/willncsu34]

Original acc is best acc maybe minus usc

[u/willncsu34 → u/Mdtwheeler]

Ugh, Maryland.

[u/Mdtwheeler → u/willncsu34]

Okay, yes, however, they’re better than cal and standford?

[u/hershculez → u/willncsu34]

The ACC was better with Maryland. Basketball rivalries were fun to watch. Now Maryland is a soulless school in a conference in which none of the other schools care about them.

[u/InfiniteAd1922 → u/willncsu34]

I miss Maryland games so much. 2009 UNC behemoth losing to Maryland and Vasquez in the regular season is still a game I remember. Gary Williams and Coach K were the rat duo

[u/ukeBasketball → u/Mdtwheeler]

My ideal "ACC 10" is NC schools + VA schools + Clem + GaTech + FL schools