Is Big East Basketball over as we know it?

With the news of Syracuse and Pittsburgh exiting the conference in 2014 and teams like Connecticut, Rutgers, and West Virginia shopping conferences will Big East basketball be left in the dust? Commissioner John Marinatto has been criticized by some coaches for his lack of leadership during the realignment. Despite this the Big East is rumored to be interested in adding Xavier and back to back Final Four runner-up Butler as basketball-only programs. Another question that has arose among pirate fans is how Seton Hall will be affected during the shake-up. Seton Hall is one of 6 Big East schools that does not have a Division 1 football program or a football program at all. Talk has been that the 6 schools may leave the Big East to create a new conference with one or two other schools. As of now Big East fans are just going to have to wait and see how the realignment shakes out.