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SEC includes KC in possible hoops tourney rotation
COLUMBIA – When Missouri athletic director Mike Alden meets with top Kansas City officials on Wednesday he will be able to assure them Kansas City has been and will be discussed as a possible future site of the Southeastern Conference men’s basketball tournament.
“We took that up in a rotation,” Larry Templeton, head of the transition team to welcome Mizzou and Texas A&M into the SEC, said at Mizzou Arena on Monday.
“We do move it around,” Templeton said, noting the tourney will be in New Orleans at the end of the 2012 season, will be in Nashville in 2013 and in Atlanta in 2014. “We’ve played our tournament in Tampa. We’ve played our tournament in Memphis.
“We have a history of moving the basketball tournament.”
That said, Templeton said he did not see the SEC ever moving its football championship game from Atlanta. Nor is the SEC baseball tournament likely to move out of Birmingham, Ala.
Of course, football was the prime mover and shaker in the SEC taking Missouri and Texas A&M – hoops opponents Monday afternoon at Mizzou Arena – away from the Big 12 Conference.
But Templeton, former long-time athletic director at Mississippi State, said the league transition team – which will meet in Birmingham with members of the Missouri executive staff next Monday – indicated basketball scheduling is high on the docket of things that have to be done in the coming months.
For next year, Templeton said, each one of the 14 SEC teams would play a 16-game league schedule with the plan being to move to an 18-game schedule the following season.
Certain traditional matchups – Kentucky versus Florida – would be guaranteed to be staged twice each year.
“The big issue we have is (Commissioner Mike Slive) assigned all future scheduling for all sports to the transition team,” Templeton said.
“We just got the football for 2012 done and we’ll start the process next month for the next 13 years.”
Missouri, for the time being, would remain in the SEC East, with Texas A&M competing in the SEC West.
That might well change to a four-team, four-pod system should the SEC expand to 16 teams. However, Templeton did not engage in any speculation in that regard.
“There are some big decisions the athletic directors have to make,” Templeton said. “And we have not had that meeting.
“They will put anything on the table, but having been an AD in that league for 21 years, it’s going to be hard to give up the old, traditional, way we play.
“Until the NCAA changes the championship game rules, it would be hard to do anything but divisional play.
“Now, we would like the NCAA to look at that because we feel pretty strongly - we have some cross-over games division to division – (and) we would like to play more of them.
“Then the other decision we have to make, are we going to stay with one permanent opponent in the other division. That is a huge question that has not been answered.”
As for whether the SEC would stay with an eight-game conference game format or change that to nine, Templeton was adamant.
“We’re not going to nine,” he assured. “It would be an easier scheduling format, but I don’t think it would be fair to our players or our coaches.
Templeton said that although Missouri and Arkansas are not scheduled to play in football in 2012, that the possibility of the Tigers and Razorbacks was another item that was “on the table.”
He added the SEC was talking about adding more conference bowl affiliations as well as trying to help Missouri finalize its 2012 non-conference football schedule.
Alden – set to meet in Kansas City with the mayor, the head of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and other city officials on Wednesday – will likely have more specifics to discuss on Wednesday in what is scheduled to be a closed-door meeting.
Alden previously told The Star that Missouri likely could not play a football game in Kansas City in 2012.
But Alden can at least pass along to Kansas City interests Templeton’s assurance that the SEC wants to help Missouri maintain a basketball presence in the city, including the possibility of Kansas City being in the rotation for the SEC Tournament.
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we believe everything SEC tells us, don't believe anything b12 or Texas says.
St. Louis will get the SEC tournament before KC is ever considered. I'm sure Gov. Jay Nixon and Mizzou have had talks with the SEC about it before Mizzou defected. Just another example of the continued slant of the state agenda towards St. Louis. KCMO would be better served seceding to Kansas.
The folks that settled Kansas couldn't think of a name so they just stole it from Kansas City, Missouri which was incorporated as a city (1853)a year before the Kansas Territory was incorporated in 1854 and 8 years before Kansas became a state. So maybe you should change the name of your state. Maybe along the lines of the state of Remax. After all, kansas can't get anybody to live there so they offer free land and tax incentives. Good luck on that Kansas.
It's a disgrace we use their name. But even I learned in school growing up that we were the City of Kansas, named after the river and the Indians who lived along it long before we got here. We took there name
Your high quality, much publicized Missouraah education is just bubbling over.....you should pat yourself on the back, BTW, the word is THEIR (possessive) not THERE, (location)......but again, why bother a Tiger fan with facts, it just doesn't soak into the moonshine, meth saturated cavity in the skull. Notice I did't use the word brain.
And the correct answers are:
. . . high-quality, much-publicized . . . .
Use spaces between the ellipsis, and use only 3 periods unless it is the end of a sentence.
Use a period after "back" and "facts."
. . . moonshine-, meth-saturated.
And finally, I noticed that you didn't spell "didn't" correctly.
In other words, do not criticize a person's abilities unless yours are above reproach--which they are not.
Finally, try to stick to the topic at hand, which is the possibility of a SEC basketball tournament being held in KCMO.
Just ignore the fact that the SEC is referring to KC in this article. Also ignore the fact that St. Louis doesn't have a nice, new basketball arena. We get it. You ku fans have to try to keep the whole "MU abandoned KC" myth going.
Sour grapes from the KU Whinery - again.
Tourney would do well in KC w/ Missouri, Kentucky, Florida, Arkansas... could have NCAA regional feel to it.
Another dumb comment from a beaker fan who's obsessed with anything connected to Mizzou..
never happen. the SEC is playing Kansas City/MU as fools
Do they really believe anyone in KC area will give a damn about SEC tournament? Won't be able to give tickets away, especially since MU will be lucky to be there.
So your saying that it may be a similar situation to KU and its inability to sell tickets at Arrowhead? Heck, you could compare it to KU home football games as well. I never will forget the KU homecoming game on ESPN and the stands completely empty. KU fans... either really dumb or great comedians.