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Memphis, TN (Sports Network) - The ongoing game of musical chairs in college
athletics has its newest player.
Memphis is set to announce in a press conference Wednesday that it will join
the Big East Conference in all sports for the 2013-14 season, according to
several reports.
The school has called a press conference for 1 p.m. (et). Emails to several
contacts in the athletics department were not immediately returned Tuesday
night.
The Big East, of course, has been adding members to offset the eventual exits
of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia and to reach its goal of having 12
football teams.
Memphis, in leaving Conference USA, would be the 12th.
The Big East had already announced the additions of Central Florida, SMU and
Houston as full members and Boise State, San Diego State and Navy for football
only.
It hopes to create two divisions and stage an annual conference championship
game.
Syracuse and Pittsburgh announced in September that they were leaving for the
ACC and West Virginia is moving to the Big 12. TCU, which had agreed to leave
the Mountain West for the Big East, decided instead to join the Big 12.
In 2015, the football-playing teams in the Big East would be Boise State,
Central Florida, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, Navy,
Rutgers, San Diego State, South Florida and SMU.
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