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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4202135, member: 11664"] The only real incentive right now is additional TV money which the BE has been searching for the right team to invite into the conference that will earn it more TV money, instead of less money per school if more TV money doesn't result. The purpose for the conference fielding WBB teams at all is to meet title IX for women's sports in general, and also so that the teams have the opportunity to qualify for the NCAAT which the BE already meets those requirements. Any discussion about a stronger conference has to include finances since UConn just rejoined the BE in 2019-20 for financial reasons. Otherwise a conference is just a conference, and a school can make a tougher OOC schedule if they want, or join another conference. Right now, Creighton ranks #31, DePaul #48, Marquette is #61, and BC of the ACC is #57 in NET rankings, and BC didn't play any OOC games against a ranked team this year. The BE already announced that it wanted to invite a new member school if possible by 2025 or so. There's really nothing else to ask the conference about since it's already been in the news that it's a long term consideration. There's only so many schools that might qualify to join and can improve the BE TV revenues. Other factors include geography and academics, No school wants to lose money to join the BE compared to their current conference income. [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/New_Big_East_Locations.png[/IMG] [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_East_Conference[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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