HuskerFever

Two Nebraska basketball players drafted in the 2000's. All in the last 2 years. Expect more to come soon.

Need another reason to follow the team (or buy tickets to a game)? #1 halfway through the season! The bandwagoner grace period is currently open

That would be a good idea; the kids would love it.

Yeahhhhhhh...........

You sound like British people complaining about the Super League. Oh, wait. That was all greed too, at the expense of community.

This was the U-18 league though, right? I kid, I kid...

Very true, people like to pile on, but the power of the “N” is still REAL... We can't take that for granted though.

Not a Brian Rosenthal tweet, but it should count as official:

Cold wars just aren't the same anymore with global warming...

My guess is that the odds of a 20-team conference are just as high as a European Super League forming.

Meanwhile at Oklahoma State:

To make it more clear on my end, I don't think this is about getting a 16th member in a conference. I see it as more of putting pressure on the NCAA. So to me, the result is either status quo or breaking of the power of the NCAA, not some strategy of a 16 team conference.

It's not a matter of instability within a conference (unless you're the Big 12), it's instability of the NCAA that some people should be worried about. There's a good possibility this is smoke and mirrors to put some pressure on the NCAA.

Agreed. And my "at least consider" list is very short. That's the sad part about it. Either the Big Ten will have to take some big swings from P5 schools or they'll end up with some fairly underwhelming adds.

I highly doubt Kentucky would entertain leaving the SEC. Like it or not, the SEC is putting a lot more investment into their basketball programs, coaches, and facilities. Even then, why move into a conference where you're going to have to compete harder for a conference title? As for football, it's niche but growing. I know some Kentucky fans and they're paying more and more attention to it and other SEC schools who are starting to pay more attention to that opponent. That said, most SEC fans don't want Vanderbilt in their conference. So that's an option.

If I'm putting on my Big Ten glasses, here's the teams that initially pop out to me as options. Not necessarily "MUST" schools, but options (based on current market or adjacent market): Kansas Syracuse Iowa State Notre Dame Cincinnati Pittsburgh

Rutgers and Maryland were strictly for the media revenue and increasing the market size of the conference. I'm not sure that's necessarily the best move going forward.

Here's how it looks if we open it up to existing Big Ten markets: Nebraska (FBS) Nebraska (N/A) Creighton (N/A) Nebraska-Omaha Minnesota (FCS) St. Thomas (FBS) Minnesota Iowa (FBS) Iowa State (FBS) Northern Iowa (FCS) Drake (FBS) Iowa Wisconsin (FBS) Wisconsin (N/A) Green Bay (N/A) Marquette (N/A) Milwaukee Illinois (FBS) Northern Illinois (FCS) Eastern Illinois (FCS) Illinois State (FCS) Southern Illinois (FCS) Western Illinois (FBS) Illinois (FBS) Northwestern (N/A) Bradley (N/A) Chicago State (N/A) DePaul (N/A) Illinois at Chicago (N/A) Loyola-Chicago (N/A) SIU-Edwardsville Indiana (FBS) Ball State (FBS) Notre Dame (FCS) Butler (FCS) Indiana State (FCS) Valparaiso (FBS) Indiana (FBS) Purdue (N/A) Evansville (N/A) IUPUI (N/A) Purdue-Fort Wayne Michigan (FBS) Central Michigan (FBS) Eastern Michigan (FBS) Western Michigan (FBS) Michigan (FBS) Michigan State (N/A) Detroit Mercy (N/A) Oakland Ohio (FBS) Akron (FBS) Bowling Green (FBS) Cincinnati (FBS) Kent State (FBS) Miami Ohio (FBS) Ohio (FBS) Toledo (FCS) Dayton (FCS) Youngstown State (FBS) Ohio State (N/A) Cleveland State (N/A) Wright State (N/A) Xavier Pennsylvania (FBS) Pittsburgh (FBS) Temple (FCS) Bucknell (FCS) Duquesne (FCS) Lafayette (FCS) Lehigh (FCS) Penn (FCS) Robert Morris (FCS) Saint Francis (FCS) Villanova (FBS) Penn State (N/A) Drexel (N/A) La Salle (N/A) Saint Joseph's Maryland (FBS) Navy (FCS) Towson (FBS) Maryland (N/A) Coppin State (N/A) Loyola-Maryland (N/A) Maryland Eastern Shore (N/A) Mount St. Mary's (N/A) UMBC New Jersey (FCS) Monmouth (FCS) Princeton (FBS) Rutgers (N/A) Fairleigh Dickinson (N/A) NJIT (N/A) Rider (N/A) Saint Peter's (N/A) Seton Hall

The list isn't very appealing. Especially if you can't go after any of the current P5 schools.

Also, the SEC as a whole has come a long long ways in the last decade to improve the basketball conference.