Creighton, Dayton, and St. Louis to join in 2014.

Just reported on ESPN/Twitter.

The new Big East, in 2014:

Butler
Creighton
Dayton
DePaul
Georgetown
Marquette
Providence
Seton Hall
St. John's
St. Louis
Villanova
Xavier

Thoughts, Georgetown and Villanova fans?

As long as Duke goes where Carolina goes, I could care less.

the rivalry will go to 1 game a year. but that's basically the endgame.

duke and wake are assed out.

Because there will be very very very bad blood over it.

like every basketball school does. sure, it might take ten years or so, but basketball schools can't be spitting on revenue streams.

Not to sound like the all-too-typical Duke snob, but I'm really not too concerned about money as far as Duke goes.

Though I agree that after a period of time (and once K has retired), a reunion seems plausible. Not with K there though. He holds a grudge and holds the power in his pocket.

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Whether you want to or not
Some of us gon' end up holy
Some of us gon' end up hot.....

or did i miss some update there?

they have raided the A10 lol.

good move for butler and creighton, i suppose, although they and the zags have earned huge reps without a huge conference.

With Old Dominion.

I believe Temple's still joining the soon-to-be-former-Big-East. The one with South Florida in it.

The Big East would have been palatable next year with Temple and Memphis joining, but with that would have come Central Florida, Houston, and SMU, so...woof.

Also the TV deal for the Catholic Big East is going to be more lucrative than what the remaining football schools are getting, which is pretty rad.

Is there any word on what kind of tv deal they'll have?

Fox is switching the Speed Network to an all-sports channel (kind of like what NBC did with Versus) and indications are that they're the lead bidder at this point.

It would make more sense for them to do it.

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Since I've been back in Omaha, it's been fun having the opening rounds here although I didn't get to check a lot of the games. I've always wished Creighton would consider stepping it up so I could take a 10 minute walk to some dope games.


Also exciting because Omaha Central recently beat Oak Hill and is getting some national eyes on it...I'm feeling real basketbally right about now.

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I was hoping for this:

Marquette
Georgetown
Villanova
St. John's
Providence
Seton Hall
DePaul
Xavier
Butler
Creighton
Temple
Memphis
UConn
Cincinnati

...but it looks like the Catholic schools have had it with football altogether (even programs that aren't any good). Plus, you know Nova would throw a total bitch fit on Temple being involved.

Cats might want to stay home to play in the Big East.

I was hoping they could get St. Joe's for the Philly market. I am glad they are adding Creighton and SLU to the mix to create more midwest regional rivalries (I'm a DePaul alum).
I also hope they don't add Gonzaga and St.Mary's in the future because it just doesn't make sense to add those 2 west coast schools.

But they absolutely SHOULD try to add Gonzaga, as the one trip a year out west per school would absolutely be worth while for the overall prestige of the league.

>But they absolutely SHOULD try to add Gonzaga, as the one
>trip a year out west per school would absolutely be worth
>while for the overall prestige of the league.

Earlier this week, West Virginia was complaining about all of the long trips they have to make in the Big 12, where all of their trips are 840-1200 miles away. The Zags' shortest road trip would be a 2 1/2 hour flight to Omaha, which isn't terrible on its own, but it's about 5 hours from Spokane to the East Coast.

There's also the issue of scheduling. How are the 4 pm Pacific weeknight games at Georgetown, Villanova, et al. going to go over with their fans? Similarly, I don't think the rest of the teams in the league would be thrilled about games starting at 9 or 10 pm on a Wednesday night. Certainly there are ways around this, but why should the other however many teams make a bunch of concessions for one outlier?

and not necessary for the league.

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Granted, that's not exactly "easy" in the traditional sense, lol. But it'd be easy to schedule. That way, they only need to make a literal cross country trip a couple of times. Have games on the East Coast at 9, West Coast games at 6.

They don't travel that much right now, but that's because they hold all the power... but their program revenue could increase dramatically with games against big basketball schools.

never.

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Doesn't quite make up for the history of losing UConn and 'Cuse, but since G'Town beat em this year they can GTFO the conference.

Been a down year for Xavier, but with this news the year hasn't been a total bust. Kind of feel bad for the A10, this has been a great year for it but next year they lose X, Butler and Temple.

This has the potential to be a powerhouse conference.

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I was looking forward to be able to see my Huskies play down here in Florida more often.

They want the name that G'Town, Cuse, and UCONN maintained....besides the Hoyas, the only schools in this new league that gave anything to this are Nova and Seton Hall.

I hope Coach Ollie runs the score up on these schools everytime we play them in the future.