We’re still early in the rumor phase but several CUSA schools have been reported to have submitted paperwork to conference USA. The names out there are Marshall, ODU, and Southern Mississippi. There is also some skuttlebut that JMU is on the menu for the Belt.
This takes two teams I talked about earlier this week off the menu.
This leaves the following teams, kind of stuck: WKU, Lousiana Tech, UTEP, FIU, & MTSU.
Two of these teams pair nicely, and happen to bend, but not break, the MAC footprint into the south.
That would be a pairing of WKU and Middle Tennessee State.