An alternate College Basketball universe

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Fun Summertime article in the Athletic today. Not sure how shared articles work, so let me know if it can’t be read.

Jim Root broke everything down into a max of 11 teams per league to get true home and home and took history and geography into account. Fun to see what happened to the A10 teams.

www.nytimes.com

What if college basketball ran conference realignment? We sorted all 364 teams to find out

Let us imagine a world where football is no longer the bullying juggernaut dictating every move in college sports.
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They have us in an "Eastern" conference that's in a group of five "Power-ish" conferences that sit below the Power Five. These conferences would have a high likelihood of multiple bids.

Eastern: Cincinnati, FAU, Florida State, Miami, Richmond, South Carolina, South Florida, UCF, VCU, Xavier
 
The Eastern is a strange assortment of schools from a historical basketball perspective and like @sman I was surprised to see UR in the second level tier. The Eastern looks to be the weakest of the second tier groupings to me though.

I thought it was interesting where other A10 teams went as well.

The “Central” is another second tier grouping just below the new P5 and would definitely get multiple teams in:

Butler, Creighton, Dayton, DePaul, Loyola Chicago, Marquette, Memphis, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Saint Louis

Davidson got pushed back to the CAA, which I am sure those fans would not be happy.

The “new” A10 becomes:

Boston College, Duquesne, Fordham, George Mason, George Washington, La Salle, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Saint Joseph's, St. Bonaventure, Temple
 
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