Actually, it's apparently less $$$ for KSU/Big XII the next couple of years...
yeah, this is what will be the huge sticking point to getting this done.
Not sure how strong the "federalism" balance is with conferences vs. NCAA, but there is zero way UT, ku, probably k-state and every perennial tourney team at every other d1 conference doesn't hate this.
A coalition of mid-majors and SLTHs does not get this done once the big boys hear that revenue will fall. Can't see the motivation for the NCAA either if revenue goes DOWN.
The smartest thing would be for home court for the top 8 teams or something and then make the regionals way more ridic in terms of catering to closest market/big city, but it would be kind of hard to do that, would only be a marginal difference and would probably still lose tv/ticket money for the NCAA.