By Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News: In the middle of summer, when many are thinking about sunshine, beaches and maybe 18 holes, and those who follow sports either are going to soccer or baseball games or getting psyched for NFL training camp, the core of the college basketball season is being constructed by telephone.
The nonconference scheduling process receives only a modest amount of attention even among those who follow the sport — save perhaps for the regular tweets from Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports about who will play whom. When the full schedules are complete, usually around the time college football teams are taking the field, then we might hear some discussion about which coaches are cowardly because of the meager competition assembled.
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