08-06-2023, 03:32 PM
NCAA conferences are organized around basketball. Despite the term getting tossed around liberally, there is no such thing as a basketball-only member. Wherever your basketball teams go, your other non-football sports go too, provided that the basketball home conference sponsors those other sports.
Arrangements like ND hockey in the B1G and the various sports Stanford has in the MPSF come about whenever the home basketball conference (ACC in ND's case and the Pac in ours) don't offer some of the sports carried.
Arrangements like ND hockey in the B1G and the various sports Stanford has in the MPSF come about whenever the home basketball conference (ACC in ND's case and the Pac in ours) don't offer some of the sports carried.