Welcome Butler, Creighton, and Xavier to the Big East!

[marquette]

Welcome home guys! Good luck to Butler in the NCAA, we'll see you in the second round. If you guys at Creighton could do us all a favor and send Cincinnati home that'd be nice too.

[yorost]

Welcome home guys! Good luck to Butler in the NCAA, we'll see you in the second round. If you guys at Creighton could do us all a favor and send Cincinnati home that'd be nice too.

Easy now, we haven't even played Davidson, yet.

[jkc_dawgs]

Does anybody have the video for the announcement? I wasn't able to watch it earlier today.

[marquette]

Welcome home guys! Good luck to Butler in the NCAA, we'll see you in the second round. If you guys at Creighton could do us all a favor and send Cincinnati home that'd be nice too.

Easy now, we haven't even played Davidson, yet.

Quit being so practical, we have a rivalry to create!

[yorost]

Hopefully not with Davidson.

[JohnT]

I was told at the beginning that exactly this would occur. XU, Butler, and Creighton in 2013. SlU and Dayton in 2014. So far, exactly as planned.

UD and SLU fans - relax.

[Omaha1]

Good article today about Creighton lobbying and then being invited to the Big East.

Marquette's president, the Rev. Scott Pilarz, described Lannon as one of his closest friends and pointed out they were both presidents in Pennsylvania at the same time — Lannon at St. Joseph's and Pilarz at the University of Scranton. But Pilarz downplayed any suggestion that Creighton was a tough sell to the rest of the conference.

“I would always stick up for Creighton —- it's another Jesuit school,” Pilarz said. “But really Creighton was a favorite for all of us from the very beginning.”

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130321/B ... -beginning

[pitchersduel]

I was told at the beginning that exactly this would occur. XU, Butler, and Creighton in 2013. SlU and Dayton in 2014. So far, exactly as planned.

UD and SLU fans - relax.

i hope you're right.

were you told by any chance why it would be setup that way? i mean if they know its SLU/dayton...why wouldnt they go ahead and either a) include them now or b) announce their intention to add both next year?

[Xaveriana]

If you guys at Creighton could do us all a favor and send Cincinnati home that'd be nice too.

I'll second that!!
Anything to anger the Troll.

[Xufanintennessee]

Is there a way to watch the press conference online?

If you'd I like Xavier's point of view on the announcement see it here http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/30120062

Scroll to 17 minutes in.

Campus network got really taxed so bear with the quality.