This is potentially very good news for us. I doubt that anybody wants to play more than 8 league games. So if the MVFC expanded to 12, how would you fairly decide which 8 teams a school played in a given year? The only feasible way is by forming divisions. Six schools on each side of the Mississippi.
YSU, Indiana State, Illinois State, Western Illinois, Southern Illinois, Murray State
NDSU, SDSU, South Dakota, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, Missouri State
Each year you play the 5 teams from your own division and then 3 from the other. Rotate the 3 after a 2-year cycle.
For reasons of geography and rivalries, the Dakota schools always play each other. Likewise, the Illinois schools and Indiana State always play. Murray would just be happy to be in a much better basketball conference. YSU obviously would be pleased.
The two losers, UNI and Missouri State. Who cares.