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When the catholic basketball schools separated themselves from the Big East, taking the Big East name with it, the new look 12 member league needed a new name. The league, which features Tulane University, will be called...

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Is Duke still a #1 seed?  Did Georgetown lose its chance at a #1 or #2 seed?  Is Kentucky even going to make the field.

That's some of the questions being asked after a crazy evening in college basketball on Friday

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The Boise State Broncos are perhaps the most well known and successful mid-major football program in the Country. Six months ago they announced their decision to join the Big East, a BCS conference. However, with the current college football landscape in limbo, could Boise State remain in the Mountain West Conference? They still haven't officially...

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As the realignment reality in college athletics rages on, most fans have focused on what it means to their preferred conference in the sport of football. What about basketball? Several big time college basketball conferences will take a big time hit as a result of realignment, including the likes of...

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The Atlantic Coast Conference evidently doesn't want to rock the boat.

The Conference announced midway through 2011 that Pittsburgh and Syracuse would be leaving the Big East conference for the ACC

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West Virginia was invited by the Big 12 to join their conference on Friday, but the Big East said it would hold the Mountaineers to a provision that requires notice of 27 months before a school can withdraw. The Mountaineers aren't too happy about that, and they are now suing the Big East, seeking immediate withdrawal from the conference without penalty.

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West Virginia University was formally invited to join the Big 12 today. WVU, a member of the Big East conference for the last 16 years, will accept the Big 12's invitation.

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Last year, Nebraska left the Big XII to join the Big Ten, while Colorado left the Big XII to join Utah, who left the Mountain West Conference, to join the new Pac-12.

Recently, Texas A&M announced they will leave the Big XII, and are expected to join the SEC, and recent reports say that Missouri may be headed from the Big XII to the SEC as well.

We're still not done.

Pittsburgh and Syracuse are leaving the Big East, and going to the ACC.

Meanwhile, the remaining teams in the Big East and the Big XII are trying to salvage something their respective leagues.

All of this movement...is it a smart thing for all these conference, and schools, to do?

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With speculation that the Big 12 and Big East are going to cease to exist as we know them, the schools that could be left behind in conference realignment are talking about coming together.

Sources close to the situation say that the two conferen

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Egos would be out. Geography would (for the most part) rule

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