Washington State and Oregon State have long been college hoops also-rans, so adding Mountain West teams could boost the conference’s relevance.
, set to send more than half of its men’s basketball teams to the NCAA tournament and outpacing the Big East, ACC and dying Pac-12 in the process.set to join Oregon State and Washington State in attempting to reconstitute the Pac-12
The Mountain West as currently constituted has its flaws, particularly as a football conference. In the current revenue above all climate of college sports, it won’t be particularly hard to spin this decision as a necessary one for the departing MWC programs.
What the rest of this remade Pac-12 looks like is still to be determined. One imagines they’d swing at other leagues first before circling back to poach more of the Mountain West, but it’s certainly possible that’s the square the league ends on. Regardless, it seems inevitable the remaining slots in the new Pac-12 will be given to whichever programs can add the most value to its TV deal or more simply, whichever programs boost the football product.
And for those left behind, the Mountain West likely targets teams from Conference USA or the FCS ranks to backfill, none of whom are likely at-large bid contenders in basketball.
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