The university holds R1 research status in the Carnegie Classification and is a national leader in health care and administration, including the No. The University of Alabama at Birmingham was founded in 1969 and enrolls more than 22,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The league will have four teams in the state of Texas, two each in Florida and North Carolina and one each in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma and Kansas. The American will have a presence in four of the top 10, seven of the top 25 and 12 of the top 51 Nielsen media markets. Additionally, we increase the value in live content options for CBS Sports, which features selected men’s basketball games from the conference.” And we will continue to provide valuable inventory to our major media rights partner, ESPN, which will feature our members on the most prominent platforms in sports media. We have enhanced geographical concentration which will especially help the conference’s men’s and women’s basketball and Olympic sports teams. We are adding excellent institutions that are established in major cities and have invested in competing at the highest level. “This is a strategic expansion that accomplishes a number of goals as we take the conference into its second decade. “I am extremely pleased to welcome these six outstanding universities to the American Athletic Conference,” said Aresco. “I am confident that we have not only added fine institutions that share our collective ambition for national success, but we have done so in a deliberate and sensible way that will contribute to the long-term future of the conference.” “On behalf of the American Athletic Conference presidents, I look forward to years of healthy competition with our six new members,” said Michael Fitts, President of Tulane University and Chair of The American’s Board of Directors.
The American will compete as a 14-team league in football and in men’s and women’s basketball, among other sports. The six universities will join the nine continuing members – East Carolina, Memphis, Navy (football only), South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa and Wichita State (basketball and Olympic sports only) - to bring The American’s membership to 15 schools. The University of Texas at San Antonio – San Antonio, Texas The University of North Texas – Denton, Texas The University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Charlotte, North Carolina The University of Alabama at Birmingham – Birmingham, Alabamaįlorida Atlantic University – Boca Raton, Florida The six new institutions, whose membership in The American will begin on a date to be determined, will be: Story Links IRVING, Texas – The American Athletic Conference Board of Directors and Commissioner Mike Aresco announced today that six universities have had their applications for membership in The American approved by the conference’s nine continuing members.
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