COVER STORY

If the latest spasm of conference realignment in college sports was supposed to spell doom for the Big 12 or Pac-12 — or for any other conference, for that matter — somebody forgot to tell the basketball coaches. In college hoops, where virtually all success is measured by how a team, or conference, fares in March’s hoops celebration, the 2022-23 campaign about to tip off looks a lot like business as usual.