The Bowling Green Daily News reports a Conference USA source as saying the league presidents have passed a measure to reduce the fields in conference tournaments for the 2020-21 season. C-USA will reduce its men’s and women’s basketball tournament from 12 teams to eight. In addition to the change of basketball seeding, the bonus play format will not be used moving forward.
Among other changes, the Conference USA volleyball tournament will be reduced from eight teams to four with the top seed hosting. Soccer, softball and baseball tournaments will remain at eight teams, but the number of their conference regular-season games will be less. The conference source also says this is being done to cut costs for the 2,000 mile league.