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[QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4924996, member: 549"]
Folks on here have been through this exercise many times before (you can use the search function in upper right). To quote Yogi… it’s deja ve all over again for the veterans on this forum. Hell, [USER=296]@ZooCougar[/USER] started this thread 11+ years ago!)

[URL='https://archive.ph/oZ0EU']There was interest but also significant resistance to UConn[/URL] - nothing was a gimme.

-> But a report out of Oklahoma this week indicates resistance to such a plan from within the conference.

Barry Tramel, a well-connected columnist for The Oklahoman, reported that there is “little interest” in adding UConn or Gonzaga among “campus decision-makers.”

Tramel quotes an [URL='https://archive.ph/o/oZ0EU/https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/big-12/2023/06/05/big-12-conference-expansion-brett-yormark-faces-resistance-on-adding-gonzaga-uconn/70289562007/']unnamed Big 12 athletic director[/URL] saying,  “I don’t see any movement for a non-Power Five. I do not think there’s enough support to get them across the finish line.” <-
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