Duke, UVA, Pitt, GTech, and UNC are AAU members, so the B10 could heavily consider them along with Stanford, Oregon, Washington, and Cal who are also AAU members. See if the B10 adds all these schools they are considered the Athletic Ivy Conference. Thats not to say schools like Rutgers and like Northwestern still shouldn't be in there because they bring little to the table athletic wise...Same with Vanderbilt in the SEC - but they are AAU too. Virginia Tech and Miami could probably earn AAU membership as we both have larger Research budgets according to NSF and NIH than at least like 10% of the current AAU members - and much more than Notre Dame.
And from the SECs perspective I'm sure they'd love to add UNC too with UVA and Duke tagging along with them. FSU, Miami, and Clemson are the top dawgs of the ACC though, and would get stolen first.
I think BC, Syracuse, Louisville, Wake, NCSt, and Maybe GTech are in the no-mans-land area where the B10 and SEC may just not want to go to 24 or something, and therefore don't add them.. Especially since the B10 naturally fits a lot more schools than the SEC like Stanford, ND, Oregon, Washington, Cal, etc. That would bring them up to 21 along with USC and UCLA. Not too many spots would be left. I'd say the final 3 (Unless like a Rutgers is kicked out) the B10 would want is Duke, UNC, and UVA. The rest is offered to the SEC...
