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[QUOTE="Drew, post: 1485076, member: 3723"]
The point isn't that they'd take KU alone, but that if KU came with OU they'd make much more sense than saying "we want to pluck OU and UConn"

I obviously want UConn in regardless of who the other school is but there's other factors at play here. Nebraska/Wisconsin/Iowa are pissed as is because they don't get to play the B1G brands from the East enough. Do you think they'd be happy adding Indiana to their division so UConn can play those schools more? "How is Indiana different than playing Kansas"? Same thing that someone could ask here: "How is playing Rutgers different than playing SMU"?

People from those schools think of KU differently than they do UConn, in the same way we view KU differently than we view UConn. KU has a history with the midwestern B1G schools and if OU says "we'll come if you take KU as well" the B1G isn't going to say "no we want UConn instead".

If there is an eastern partner as 15, then UConn makes sense as 16. The only current B1G school that UConn really has a history with is Rutgers and I'm not sure how much that helps/hurts our case.
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