Conference realignment spurts up every so often in college athletics. Nothing’s been quite like the summers where it seemed the entire Big 12 might blow up and the Pac-12 would own west of the Mississippi.
In basketball, moves are more subtle. Wichita State leaving the Missouri Valley for the American, for example.
Well, we just might have ourselves a basketball move — and it could involve BYU.
The Mountain West Conference commissioner — ol’ Craig Thompson himself, the only commish the MW has ever known — told the San Diego Union Tribune he’s had direct discussions with Gonzaga about leaving the West Coast Conference for the Mountain West.