Conference Expansion: CAA and Atlantic-10 Getting Involved?

While conference expansion in the NCAA has been mainly focused on the major conferences, there will undoubtedly be an effect on the mid-major conference as well once all the shuffling stops.

And it sounds like there may be some potential movement taking place with the Colonial Athletic Conference and the Atlantic-10 Conference.

CBSSports.com’s Matt Norlander discusses his thoughts on this story by Pete Thamel of the New York Times which reveals that the CAA has reached out to A-10 teams about joining their conference.

According to the story, those schools are Charlotte, George Washington, and Richmond, who have all boasted pretty good basketball teams in the past.

And let’s keep in mind that the CAA isn’t exactly a bad hoops conference anymore. VCU and George Mason have put that conference on the map with their success in the NCAA Tournament, and adding teams like Richmond would add even more spice to that league.

It would essentially be THE mid-major conference to watch.

But of course, as the story also mentions, the A-10 could reach out to VCU and George Mason and change everything. As we’ve said all along during this conference expansion process, anything can and will happen.

So until there are some concrete details as to who is planning on going where, we’ll have to wait and see which of these conferences makes the big move first.

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