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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 634788, member: 652"]
Hopkins is going to join a conference I am pretty sure they will unless the tournament expands in the near future at-large bids won't be as easy as they were even 5 years ago. The B1G is a real player for JHU because of CIC and the fact they and Maryland can own that conference. Hopkins played Michigan this year which isn't a coincidence in my opinion. Hopkins could be had by the ACC as well as the B1G its just which conference will Hopkins prefer Duke, Syracuse, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia or Michigan, Ohio State, Rutgers, Maryland, and Penn State.
 
If I was Swofford I would play the ESPN loyalty angle to Hopkins and hope they prefer playing obvious power teams in the ACC over playing programing building schools in the B1G. Hopkins has a deal with ESPN/ESPNU where almost all their home games are on TV, and unless Hopkins alums want to watch their games on BTN over ESPN then staying out of the B1G and in the ACC could happen.
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