On Wednesday, news broke that the 2020-21 NCAA basketball will begin on Nov. 25, with teams permitted to begin practicing on Oct. 14, and it's likely that many if not all conferences will adopt at least a modified league-only model for the most part, much like football.
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, which includes 11 schools in the Tri-State Area, has revealed its 2020-21 schedule plan, which does indeed take a mostly league-based schedule.
Per the Tweet below from the New York Times' Adam Zagoria, the MAAC will have two weeks to schedule non-conference games at the open of the season, and then, starting Dec. 8, 13 weeks of mostly conference play with two games a week: Tuesdays and Fridays for men, and Wednesdays and Saturdays for women.
Within that 13 weeks, there will be one other non-conference slot on either Dec. 22 or 23 and one week left open (the final week of February) for any games postponed due to COVID-19 concerns, and then the MAAC Tournaments will run March 9-13.
Zagoria also notes that fans will not be allowed at games until at least Dec. 23.
