Tigers or Pirates, Pirates or Tigers?

smkeeley posted 5/15/2008 from nunesmagician.blogspot.com [flag]

Looks like that message board chatter from a few days ago was more than just idle chit-chat. According to Matt Stark over at WHBQ in Memphis, the Tigers are "in serious talks with the Big East about joining the conference." What that means beyond that is still up in the air. It presents an interesting dilemma for the conference. The last thing we need is more basketball teams, yet you're ... [link]

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Is Memphis really headed to the Big East?
Published 5/15/2008 at The Dagger
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smkeeley posted 5/15/2008 from nunesmagician.blogspot.com

So are we really going to have 17 teams in the Big East Basketball Conference? If that's the case, I guess we can fight it or we can work with it. There's a very specific issue that need to be considered. The scheduling. In any given season, Syracuse may play Georgetown, Villanova or UConn once. That's as many times as we play Colgate and 1/3 of the amount of times we play UMass. Unacceptable.

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