What if Basketball Had Driven Conference Re-Alignment?

[IthacaMatt]

The premise of this article, from The Athletic, is this - "What if basketball earned as much money as football, and was self-sustaining? How could we reorganize conferences to make them more logical geographically, and being grouped with schools of similar economic commitments to their programs."

What if college basketball ran conference realignment? We sorted all 364 teams to find out

Let us imagine a world where football is no longer the bullying juggernaut dictating every move in college sports.

www.nytimes.com

They put us back in the Old Big East, and they also rate the relative strength of each conference. They cut down on the over-expansion (the Big 10 is back to 10 teams, here), and created 2 new G5 leagues to provide landing spots for good teams among relative peers.

 

[Yeti]

It's beautiful and i don't wanna think about it.

 

[bevosu]

It's beautiful and i don't wanna think about it.

Am I missing something? I don't see Boston College.

 

[Yeti]

Am I missing something? I don't see Boston College.

As far as I’m aware they don’t have a basketball team.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

So, just go back to how it was before??

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Am I missing something? I don't see Boston College.

Gave Boston back to the British.

 

[orange79]

5 team football league. Double round robin each year. Cool.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

5 team football league. Double round robin each year. Cool.

Double Round Robin?

That's what Batman and Superman said.

 

[PeteCalvin]

Double Round Robin?

That's what Batman and Superman said.

 

[phreddie]

The premise of this article, from The Athletic, is this - "What if basketball earned as much money as football, and was self-sustaining? How could we reorganize conferences to make them more logical geographically, and being grouped with schools of similar economic commitments to their programs."

What if college basketball ran conference realignment? We sorted all 364 teams to find out

Let us imagine a world where football is no longer the bullying juggernaut dictating every move in college sports.

www.nytimes.com

They put us back in the Old Big East, and they also rate the relative strength of each conference. They cut down on the over-expansion (the Big 10 is back to 10 teams, here), and created 2 new G5 leagues to provide landing spots for good teams among relative peers.


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Lol! Why are Cincy & Xavier in a conference with a bunch of Florida teams?

 

[jncuse]

If football didn't exist, basketball powers would still have made decisions based on greed even if less money was involved. They would not have stayed at 10.

Schools like Gonzaga, Marquette, Creighton, Xavier, Memphis, that have had success and would have found their way into the biggest conferences.

 

[phil77]

If they did it like football for TV markets etc... I think we would be in the Big 10

 

[orangefog]

If they did it like football for TV markets etc... I think we would be in the Big 10

If it were for TV markets, the Big East would be king above all.