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The enormous impact on men's basketball as the Pac-12 nears extinction

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For a brief moment Friday morning, the college sports world looked like it might remain stable. Word coming out of the Pac-12 was one of optimism that the league would stick together, with the realignment of Colorado last week from the Pac-12 to the Big 12 being the only move.

Within five hours, the landscape of college sports was forever changed. The Pac-12 was essentially finished as a power conference -- and perhaps as a conference, period -- and the Big Ten and Big 12 had added multiple schools to their membership, while questions about what's next for nearly every major conference were asked all weekend.