Yeah, especially as winter gets going. Although they do tend to travel a lot in non conferences to get good matchups, so they haven’t been afraid to do that to this point.
Gonzaga to join the Big 12?
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My gosh I hope this happens. Leaning into basketball might not bring home wads of cash, but it'd be a solid way to grow our visibility, which could pay dividends down the line.
If we can't dominate resource-wise in football, than let's take pride in doing so on the hardwood. How great would it feel to have the Big 12 be seen as a goliath in something for a change?
If we can't dominate resource-wise in football, than let's take pride in doing so on the hardwood. How great would it feel to have the Big 12 be seen as a goliath in something for a change?
This might be a smart move, but I hate where college sports are headed. UCF and Gonzaga in the same conference is just stupid.
Given how much Yormark has leaned into New York City as an important market, and his obvious connections there, along with his push for the Big 12 to gain national appeal, I expect that he will call St. John’s to see if they will join the league as well. (Either alone as a team #14, or perhaps as a group with some combination of two of UConn, Villanova, Georgetown.)
St. John’s home games against Gonzaga, Kansas, Baylor, whoever else is a top Big 12 team at that time would be marketed as major New York sporting events at MSG or Barclays Center.
St. John’s home games against Gonzaga, Kansas, Baylor, whoever else is a top Big 12 team at that time would be marketed as major New York sporting events at MSG or Barclays Center.
Maybe now we can get a conference winI don't see it but I am good with whatever the conference wants.
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If basketball-only then absolutely. It would certainly jibe with Yormark's repeated statements of thinking outside the box and going national. If we add Gonzaga, getting one more to even it out makes sense, and UConn could fill that nicely.
Yeah, but we still wouldn't be able to run on them. (I know, that was a cheap shot. I take it back.)
It will be way harder for them to get a 1 seed, but they'd be more dangerous with the 2 and 3 seeds they get because as we saw last year, the NCAA tournament can be quite a bit easier than the Big 12 tournament.
Biggest money making conference was totally fine at 11 for a long time. If 13 or 15 or 17 makes sense just figure out the scheduling later.
ACC has been at 15 for hoops for a while now and manages to stay #2 in basketball most years.
There have been a LOT of times I wish we could clone JP as conference commissioner.
It'll trace back to Pennsylvania to Los Angeles trips . Those two together are like a gigantic X across the country about as far as you can go without going to Alaska or Hawaii.
But unless the money is dramatically different, would they leave the big east? A lot harder sell to pull them out of there when the big east is already a high-major and they have a bunch of their competition right in their backyard. If I were a UConn fan I'd hate that move.
Arizona is packing their bags thinking about a Big Monday with Kansas and Big Saturday on FOX against Baylor. Utah is gonna be left in the dust because of their elitist attitude. Once Arizona leaves Colorado is gone in 24 hours.
Wish we could do Arizona, Arizona State and Utah plus add the Zags. I want to punish Colorado for leaving back in the day
