Who’s playing where? A cheat sheet on college sports realignment

The Power Four (Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12 and Southeastern conferences) go into the 2026-27 football season with no ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

How NCAA Tournament expansion will impact access (and cash) for the Pac-12, Mountain West and WCC

NCAA Tournament expansion has been lambasted by everyone except the executives running college basketball. Even prominent ...
CNN

The Big East used to have college basketball’s marquee conference tournament. It’s starting to find that old juice again

On the day that Georgetown signed Patrick Ewing, Dave Gavitt memorably turned to Mike Tranghese, his right-hand man, and declared, “We’re going to New York.’’ It was 1981 and the Big East, the league ...
CNN

Val Ackerman transformed basketball and the Big East. Now the conference faces a critical juncture

In 2013, Val Ackerman was teaching a leadership course at Columbia University as the Big East scraped its way back to existence after being left for roadkill amid college football realignment.

What Geno Auriemma said about the NCAA Tournament expansion plan: 'Strictly a money grab'

The Miami of Ohio men went 31-0 in the regular season but lost in the Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinals to ...