AAU Conference?

Major sports schools eligible:

North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Oregon
Tulane
Rice
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Berkeley
Stanford
Virginia
Washington
Georgia Tech
Colorado
Arizona
Kansas

That's fourteen, a great size for a conference! The AAU would re-affiliate six schools from the PAC and four from the ACC. It would cover all time zones and could be divided easily into East and West divisions:

East

North Carolina
Tulane
Rice
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Virginia
Georgia Tech

West

Oregon
Berkeley
Stanford
Washington
Colorado
Arizona
Kansas