What could UCLA and USC's moves from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten mean for college basketball?

Just when you thought the conference realignment carousel might have come to rest, the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins sent it spinning out of control again. Thursday's report revealing USC and UCLA's intention to join the Big Ten Conference by 2024 sent another round of shockwaves through the college sports landscape, an impact potentially similar to the fallout of the announced departure of Oklahoma and Texas from the Big 12 to the SEC last summer.

Though football will undoubtedly be the main focus in the USC-UCLA story, the movement of the two Los Angeles-based universities will have a significant impact on other sports, including men's and women's basketball. In UCLA, the Big Ten would be gaining the school with the most national titles in NCAA men's basketball history (11). USC, which won the 1983 and 1984 national titles in women's basketball, was one of the first major brands of the NCAA women's game. And that's before you get to the impact on the schools left behind, including outstanding programs at Arizona (men's and women's) and Stanford (women's) that look set to watch their conference become weakened.

ESPN's team of Jeff Borzello, Joe Lunardi, Myron Medcalf, Alexa Philippou and Mechelle Voepel discussed the high-level basketball implications of the moves for the schools, the conference they're reportedly leaving, and the league they intend to join.

Simply put, there is no Pac-8, Pac-10 or Pac-12 without UCLA (and, to a lesser extent, USC). The Wooden dynasty built West Coast basketball and can never be replicated in the modern era. The history, the championships and the geography are so unique as to be irreplaceable.

Think about it this way: The coming hole in the Big 12 from the departure of Texas and Oklahoma