Yeah, it is ridiculous. Soon we'll be in a world of 16 and up.
The new Big 12 of twelve is going to be absolutely brutal for basketball, though.
Oklahoma and Texas are traditionally-strong programs. Oklahoma might take a step back after the Kruger retirement (and seems to have done so so far) and Texas has never quite lived up to its talent (as is typical with Texas, though we'll see how Beard does when he has some time to rework things).
So those are losses but... Houston has it rolling right now. Cincinnati and BYU have good tradition. The only tomato can being added is UCF, but I bet they step up their game in a better conference.
So instead of having to fight nine homicidal maniacs... you might have to fight 11.
And there's still only 6-7 spots to go around.
Good luck us.
I view OU as kind of similar to Missouri basketball before they switched and think their basketball will not benefit the same way Missouri has not. Texas is hard to predict, they've always had talent and it seems incredibly random when it translates to success or not.
Frankly I hope some of the new schools suck from the perspective of how easy college basketball wins seem to be everywhere but the Big 12.
Houston is coming in as a stronger program than either we are losing. Cincy and BYU could easily have seasons typical to a decent OU or Texas year. If we add Arizona I really hope whatever other Pac school comes with them sucks. My neighbor is dialed in w Arizona and they'd be B12 today if it were up to their fans/alumni/boosters.