Shortly after the Big Ten schools’ presidents reached a unanimous agreement to add UCLA and USC to the league last week, the Pac-12 released a statement saying they were "extremely surprised and disappointed" by the news.
Good thing for the Bruins and the Trojans, elite basketball prospects around the country don’t share their soon-to-be-former league’s sentiments. After all, the Big Ten ranked fourth in RPI this past season, while the Pac-12 checked in at No. 6. And neither the Bruins nor the Trojans are strangers to consistently landing elite talent, as both schools were in the top 10 of the SI All-American Top 25 team rankings for 2022.
Both schools will begin Big Ten conference play in 2024.
