It took Adia Barnes seven months to schedule 11 nonconference games; what goes into this task and why has it gotten harder for Barnes and other coaches?
It seems like everyone wanted to play the Wildcats back in the 2016-17 season. Barnes said she could have booked her nonconference schedule in three days.
Arizona has climbed from the Pac-12 depths to become a top-25 program. In 2021, the Wildcats advanced to their first-ever Final Four and played in the national championship game. Stanford has had the most trouble booking games. This year's schedule wasn't finished until Sept. 7, less than two months before their home opener against San Diego State.
“I think a lot of time it is geographic because expenses of travel and then it puts a burden on the West Coast teams to pony up guarantees,” VanDerveer said. In order to continue the series with Stanford in 2024, and justify another trip west, Staley asked UCLA’s Cori Close if she would push their scheduled game in Los Angeles from 2023 to 2024. Close said yes, and so South Carolina will play both Stanford and UCLA during the same week two years from now.
“We tried to play the best teams to measure ourselves,” Staley said. “They would always play us and they gained nothing. … They did it for the greater good of the sport and women's basketball.”In the opening week this season, 71 of the 207 games scheduled were between Division I and non-Division I teams; 34% of the games were between Division I and either Division II or NAIA teams, 21% were between Division I and Division III teams, and 8% were between Division I and NCCAA teams.
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