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Butler, Creighton and Xavier are moving to the new Big East.

If the Big East loses two more schools to conference realignment, the league's seven-year media rights deal can be terminated, industry sources told ESPN.

The new Big East will play with 10 members in 2013-14, sources told ESPN.com Friday night. The 10 members will be DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's and Villanova, Xavier, Butler and Creighton.

The presidents of the Big East's seven Catholic schools met with their athletic directors in New York on Wednesday and will announce new membership for the new Big East within 7-10 days, according to a source.

Notre Dame's athletic department sits in a more challenging position Friday than it did Thursday. As athletic director Jack Swarbrick sees it, things probably will not be getting easier any time soon.

The Catholic 7 schools are expected to start their own league next season and will keep the Big East Conference name, sources told ESPN. Joining the Catholic 7 schools in the new "Big East" this fall will be Xavier and Butler, sources said.

The Big East is hoping to resolve its divorce with the seven departing Catholic-based basketball schools within the next few weeks in time for a summer 2014 departure, according to a source.

The seven Catholic schools that plan to leave the Big East to form their own basketball conference expect a windfall from a new television deal, writes ESPN's Darren Rovell....

The seven Catholic schools that plan to leave the Big East to form their own basketball conference expect to double their money off a television deal, according to sources.

The seven Catholic schools that have decided to leave the Big East and form their own league continued to plot the future Friday, retaining Proskauer Rose LLP and Pilson Communications, Inc., to aid in their defection.

CINCINNATI -- Xavier's president, the Rev. Michael Graham, led the Atlantic 10's effort to add Butler and VCU. And if it was up to him, he would seek to add the seven Catholic schools leaving the Big East. "It's always been important for us to be a...

It's been a strange week in the Big East. Basketball finally found its voice in conference realignment but in doing so wrecked what had been college basketball's best league. The seven Catholic schools announced they would leave the Big East in 2015,...

The seven Catholic schools in the Big East have agreed to leave the conference and are debating the process of departing the league, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. How DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, ...

The seven Catholic schools in the Big East have agreed to leave the conference, but Georgetown is not on board with the process of departure, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

The presidents of the Big East's seven Catholic, non-Football Bowl Subdivision schools are expected to decide on their future in the Big East in the coming days, and it "would be an upset" if they remained in the league, sources told ESPN.

Finally, the Big East -- the true essence of the league, not the ramshackle Ellis Island it has currently become -- is doing something. After years of having their fate decided for them, the seven Catholic basketball-playing schools gathered with ...