Oregon State and Washington State are the only two remaining members of the Pac-12, which has lost 10 schools in 2024. According to a rep for the conference, the separation agreements allow the two leftover members to divvy up the money that schools like UCLA, Arizona and USC earned for the conference in recent tournaments prior to their departures. This year, according to Sportico's calculations, they'll both evenly split about $15.4 million.

Oregon State and Washington State themselves earned only six of the Pac-12's 43 active units, but they'll share in the spoils from a much larger haul, and that will continue for the next few years. While the Pac-12 is rebuilding around seven new members starting next season, their agreements also state the two legacy schools will continue to share units earned by the prior Pac-12 until they fully burn off in three more years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/2026-march-madness-oregon-state-and-wazzu-cash-in-despite-not-playing/ar-AA1YZGqe

Just another reminder of how horrible the Judge Libey decision was.

So are they REALLY going to steal

all that money they did not earn?

If they're smart they will invest it into their programs and eventually leverage it into getting themselves into a real conference by showing how they take sports serious.

The reality... they probably will fail to do this and find themselves stuck in irrelevancy.

Well, if anyone is still wondering why the organization is still called the Pac12, instead of the Pac8, Pac9, the Pac, the Best of the Rest, etc. the NCAA unit payments on the books to the Pac12 is the answer.

The WSU Board granted $20 million earlier this month (March 2026) to WSU athletics, while the Oregon Legislature granted $10M to OSU athletics in March 2024. But, little has been revealed about how OSU and WSU are using the bag they got from the December 2023 Judge Libey decision. Would like to see more transparency from both institutions on that.

I couldn't care less about anything that has to do with the "Pac Dead-To-Me".

Yes, they won a few short term accounting battles and turned it into absolutely nothing.

Classic lotto winner tale.

2 hours ago, HDuck said:

Oregon State and Washington State are the only two remaining members of the Pac-12, which has lost 10 schools in 2024. According to a rep for the conference, the separation agreements allow the two leftover members to divvy up the money that schools like UCLA, Arizona and USC earned for the conference in recent tournaments prior to their departures. This year, according to Sportico's calculations, they'll both evenly split about $15.4 million.

Oregon State and Washington State themselves earned only six of the Pac-12's 43 active units, but they'll share in the spoils from a much larger haul, and that will continue for the next few years. While the Pac-12 is rebuilding around seven new members starting next season, their agreements also state the two legacy schools will continue to share units earned by the prior Pac-12 until they fully burn off in three more years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/2026-march-madness-oregon-state-and-wazzu-cash-in-despite-not-playing/ar-AA1YZGqe

Just another reminder of how horrible the Judge Libey decision was.

The CS President's folded far too early. A state court judge's ruling should have been moved to federal court and appealed.

Perhaps this is the reason for the B1G coming up small in the tourney?

9 TCU 66 - 8 Ohio State 64

12 Highpoint 83 - 5 Wisconsin 82 - Lots of Ole' defense.

We do have a winner! 4. Nebraska 76 - 13 Troy 47.

Since 1985, there have been 58 times that the #12 seed has defeated the #5 seed. Here are a few examples.

2026 #12 High Point 83 #5 WISCONSIN 82

2024 #12 James Madison 72 #5 WISCONSIN 61

2019 #12 Oregon 72 #5 WISCONSIN 54

2013 #12 Ole Miss 57 #5 WISCONSIN 46

2009 #12 WISCONSIN 61 #5 Florida State 59 (OT)

2013 #12 Oregon 68 #5 Oklahoma State 55