There are loads of changes across many conferences of division 1 basketball, and they are pretty much all being driven by college football's big $$$.

If you can get access to ESPN Insider, Jay Bilas has written a pretty good summary of all the changes and goes into a bit more depth across all of the college conferences that have or will experience change.

Syracuse and Pittsburgh are two well known teams moving to the ACC as an example.

Hey guys as a novice I am interested in the womens conferences.Do you know what confereneces are considered the strongest couple and also the weaker ones.As you seem the most informe Aussies I read thought I would start here
Thank You if you can help

Thanks Anon...that's the article I was referring to that obviously someone has cut and pasted!

I honestly have no idea about women's D1 basketball as I do not follow it. Apart from noting that UConn has dominated in recent years.

womens confrences - the ones that have uconn, tennessee, stanford, duke.

baylor are on the up this season with griner and notre dame are breaking records.

Duke - ACC
uconn- big east
tennessee - south eastern
stanford - pac 12

most of the big programmes have good men and womens teams

here are the past womens champion teams and coaches - just look them up



2011 Texas A&M (33-5) Gary Blair 76-70 Notre Dame Indianapolis, Ind.
2010 Connecticut (39-0) Geno Auriemma 53-47 Stanford San Antonio, Texas
2009 Connecticut (39-0) Geno Auriemma 76-54 Louisville St. Louis, Mo.
2008 Tennessee (36-2) Pat Summitt 64-48 Stanford Tampa, Fla.
2007 Tennessee (34-3) Pat Summitt 59-46 Rutgers Cleveland, Ohio
2006 Maryland (34-4) Brenda Frese 78-75 (OT) Duke Boston, Mass.
2005 Baylor (33-3) Kim Mulkey 84-62 Michigan State Indianapolis, Ind.
2004 Connecticut (31-4) Geno Auriemma 70-61 Tennessee New Orleans, La.
2003 Connecticut (37-1) Geno Auriemma 73-68 Tennessee Atlanta, Ga.
2002 Connecticut (39-0) Geno Auriemma 82-70 Oklahoma San Antonio, Texas
2001 Notre Dame (34-2) Muffet McGraw 68-66 Purdue St. Louis, Mo.
2000 Connecticut (36-1) Geno Auriemma 71-52 Tennessee Philadelphia, Pa.
1999 Purdue (34-1) Carolyn Peck 62-45 Duke San Jose, Calif.
1998 Tennessee (39-0) Pat Summitt 93-75 Louisiana Tech Kansas City, Mo.
1997 Tennessee (29-10) Pat Summitt 68-59 Old Dominion Cincinnati, Ohio
1996 Tennessee (32-4) Pat Summitt 83-65 Georgia Charlotte, N.C.
1995 Connecticut (35-0) Geno Auriemma 70-64 Tennessee Minneapolis, Minn.
1994 North Carolina (33-2) Sylvia Hatchell 60-59 Louisiana Tech Richmond, Va.
1993 Texas Tech (31-3) Marsha Sharp 84-82 Ohio State Atlanta, Ga.
1992 Stanford (30-3) Tara VanDerveer 78-62 Western Kentucky Los Angeles, Calif.
1991 Tennessee (30-5) Pat Summitt 70-67 (OT) Virginia New Orleans, La.
1990 Stanford (32-1) Tara VanDerveer 88-81 Auburn Knoxville, Tenn.

Thanks guys..just found a site that ranks all colleges and worked some sort of rankings out.I appreciate the answers.Through my limited basketball experience it amazes me how many players are in the college system and receive no recognition and no one seems to rate them unless they went to the AIS first(and we all know that systems selection policy certainly has it downfalls)