The more I look at the map, Creighton is just too much a geographical outlier by itself for an eastern-based conference. That kind of makes me lean towards there being a CU/WSU package, or neither.
Either that, or we're truly getting some kind of 20-24-30 team national blob of a conference that spans coast-to-coast.
Here's the other problem: TV contracts. TV money is going to be a big, big factor if the Catholics want to break away. They need the money to be there. So the TV folks are going to have a say in who to add, because the Catholics need every dollar to make this work.
So it's Creighton (Omaha) vs. St Louis, Butler (Indianapolis), Richmond (yes, Richmond over VCU), Xavier (Cincinnati), Dayton, Detroit, etc etc....Omaha is behind all of them on value to the television network. And Wichita for that matter.