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Message: [QUOTE="Kolumbo, post: 5192202, member: 4613"] [HEADING=2]Rick Pitino adamant Big East will ‘miss the boat’ if it doesn’t expand into mega conference[/HEADING] “I’ve been trying to get [the Big East on board], and obviously I jumped on your bandwagon with the suggestion that you had about combining with the ACC, because I’ve been trying to get them to start a super league basketball league,” Pitino said before [URL='https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/sports/st-johns-beats-uconn-to-continue-magical-run-in-road-win/']St. John’s 68-62 road win over UConn[/URL]. “And get up to 18 teams, 16 teams. Eleven is just not enough. And right now, a little bit like the ACC, we are not typical of the Big East of the past that was getting eight or nine, 10 teams in the NCAA tournament. So I think we are missing the boat if we don’t expand.” "Pitino has also suggested adding schools like Dayton and Saint Louis of the Atlantic 10 and Memphis of the AAC." “Now the presidents, most of the presidents and probably including mine, who’s a very knowledgeable basketball fan, they think about money, they think about the bottom line,” Pitino said. “And it’s like a company like Uber starting out and they’re losing, you know, $500 million a year, but they understand 10 years down the road they’re gonna be making a billion dollars. We just can’t see that. We can’t see that there’s a lot of money to be made down the road if we form a super league.” “The coaches I think are in favor of a super league,” he added, “and I just think the presidents are against it.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/sports/rick-pitino-adamant-big-east-will-miss-the-boat-without-an-expansion/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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