Folks, you're not going to believe this one. After months of speculation and rumors it would add Cincinnati, Brigham Young, Connecticut and Houston, the Big 12 conference will announce Monday night it plans to add.... nobody.
Filed to ESPN. No expansion. No candidate could generate supermajority.
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) October 17, 2016
The conference will instead turn its attention to innovative ways to ply more coins out of TV networks:
Source: Status quo in the Big 12. No members added. League still discussing adding more TV revenue from ESPN and Fox.
— Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel) October 17, 2016
Good luck with that, Big 12.
Source: @SIPeteThamel
