TBI's Conference Calling 2014-15 College Basketball Conference Previews (Part 2)

Back for more, eh? Expecting that the new guy over at BT Powerhouse, SB Nation's finest stop for all your Big Ten basketball needs, will mindlessly anoint his favorite conference as America's best?

If you expect that a guy who's glossed himself The Professor for the better part of a decade will do anything mindlessly, you obviously haven't passed through here much.

So let's check out Part 2 of TBI's conference rankings and see if the Big Ten does, in fact, reign supreme once more. (BTW, this is also post No. 100 in the sporadic history of this slightly-above-mediocre college basketball repository. So, yay me, I guess.)

Conference Calling: Players to Watch for Championship Week (Part III)

Yeah, it's Tuesday, not Saturday. I get it. Anyway, let's get into the final batch of conference tournaments and the players that might make some impact therein.

More after the jump.

Conference Calling 31 in 31 Series: 2012-13 Big West Preview

The Conference Calling 31 in 31 preview series will examine each of the NCAA Division I auto-bid conferences (so no Great West or independents), one per day, leading up to college basketball's opening day on November 9.

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The Big West Conference is about to experience some major sea changes. Hawaii has joined the league this season, and Pacific is leaving after the season ends. The big power move comes after this season's over, when Boise State (not too big a deal in hoop) and San Diego State (major deal in hoop) arrive and deposit all their athletic baggage in the BWC, except football. Football takes a right turn instead of a left and heads for the Big East.

(Incidentally, we have the Big East, West and South; would it be too much to ask for the Summit or Horizon to call itself the Big North?)

Losing Pacific in exchange for Hawaii, Boise and SDSU is a definite net positive, but before we get to 2013-14, what happens in 2012-13? Read on for predictions on TBI's No. 24 conference.