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Big 12 won't expand after all, SI reports. Was it a play for TV money?

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The Big 12 won't expand and will remain with its 10 members, according to SportsIllustrated.com's Pete Thamel. The league's decision figures to lead to more money from its TV partners, though the league won't officially close the door on expansion until coming to a deal with its TV partners.

"Nonetheless, this marks the end—for now anyway—of a protracted and public three-month period in which the league engaged with 20 potential schools, interviewed 11 of them and concluded at the end it was best off with no new members, Thamel writes.

Tulane was one of the schools under consideration.