Brett Yormark of the Big 12 has stopped the dialogue for conference realignment with Gonzaga and UConn. “I did have conversations with UConn and Gonzaga. Those conversations are no longer. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out only because the dream scenario (of adding Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State & Utah) unfolded for us.”
The reason for this has to be due to Gonzaga being a “basketball-only” school and the WCC just signing a new TV multi-year, multi-platform deal with ESPN. Football will always be king in college sports.
With this news, the Big East and UConn remains intact and is the “silent winner” in all this chaos in college basketball.