They might have to wait longer than that. 10 teams is ideal for basketball (18 games, true home and home with everyone). Yeah, I hope the new Big East sticks with 10. They won't, of course. SLU and Dayton are probably going to the Big East in '14-'15. I wonder why they preferred Creighton over SLU for the 10 team league. Creighton's been much better over the past forever and is the best program in their state compared to SLU FWIW, I've read fans from a SLU forum say the President of Creighton is on the board at Marquette and Marquette pushed for Creighton. (Not sure how true that is). But obviously Creighton does have a better resume even if it was in the MVC and even if they've mostly just made the tournament and not won much recently. SLU was also a much better fit from a media standpoint, so its hard to totally understand the decision even when you look at history of success. No arguing SLUs recent history is pretty awful though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Creighton's president is the ex-president of St. Joe's in Philly so he has east coast connections and had a desire for the university to have a bigger presence eastward. Also, Creighton was apparently instrumental (not sure how or why) in getting Marquette into the Big East and so Marquette was pushing hard for Creighton as a gesture of brotherly love. I think something else that really played into Creighton's favor is that they had no exit fee from the Valley, whereas Butler and Xavier likely had some nominal fee which probably applied to SLU as well. And then the decision is SLU or Creighton, and given their respective track record's, Creighton was the better choice for now. I hope SLU will eventually join the conference in the interest of rivalry and distance.