In the course of a little over 12 months, the SCAC has lost Rose-Hulman and gained Austin College and Colorado College. This doesn’t represent much of a change in basketball terms, but then again, this process probably isn’t done yet. The conference probably isn’t done at 11 schools.

Although the conference hasn’t said whether it will play basketball in divisions, here’s the breakdown that would seem to make the most sense.

East Division
Centre: Danville, Ky.
DePauw: Greencastle, Ind.
Hendrix: Conway, Ark.
Oglethorpe: Atlanta
Rhodes: Memphis
Sewanee: Sewanee, Tenn.

West Division
Austin: Sherman, Texas
Colorado College: Colorado Springs
Millsaps: Jackson, Miss.
Southwestern: Georgetown, Texas
Trinity (Texas): San Antonio

That West Division is a team short. Many options have been debated, but the perfect 12th school might be someone nobody (well, except for Pat Cummings, who first brought it to my attention) is talking about: Nebraska Wesleyan. This is Colorado College’s travel partner. Lincoln, Neb., and Colorado College are a little over eight hours apart by car. They wouldn’t be particularly close but they wouldn’t be as far apart as, say, Case Western Reserve (Cleveland) and Emory (Atlanta) in the UAA.

Is this conference better? No, probably not. But it’s siginificantly more interesting, especially if it can rescue Nebraska Wesleyan from NAIA/NCAA dual membership.