Missouri, you’ll have to wait to find out your Big Ten fate

This is getting awkward. Big Ten expansion is still “months away” if not

a year, according to an ESPN report

on Tuesday, leaving Missouri hanging and the Big 12 feeling bitter.

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Ten commissioner Jim Delany — the most popular (and hated) man

in college sports — broke hearts in Columbia when he announced that the

conference wouldn’t be extending any invitations to new members and the

league’s presidents and chancellors wouldn’t be voting on new members

at the June 6 meeting.

“There will be no vote,” Delany said.

“That’s not in our time frame. …

We’re months away.”