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East Carolina isn’t a school that comes to mind when you think “football powerhouse,” but it’s acting like one by officially signing not one, not two, but three graduate transfers from Power 5 schools. The Pirates, members of the American Athletic Coast Conference (AAC), have signed running back Tyshon Dye (Clemson), defensive end Gaelin Elmore (Minnesota)…
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The American Athletic Conference voted unanimously on Friday to add Wichita State to the league starting with the 2017-18 season. Wichita State announced it accepted the AAC's invitation and will leave the Missouri Valley Conference. The Shockers have been members of the MVC since 1945. Wichita State will join the AAC in all its sports --…
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South Florida gave Brian Gregory the task of rebuilding its program after announcing the hiring of the former Georgia Tech and Dayton coach Tuesday. The school in Tampa reportedly gave Gregory a six-year contract. He inherits a team that went 7-23 in 2016-17. "I am very excited to get to work, to talk with the players…
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The rubber match became a mismatch. With four starters scoring in double figures, No. 12 SMU led wire-to-wire against No. 15 Cincinnati on Sunday in a 71-56 win in the championship game of the American Athletic Conference Tournament at XL Center in Hartford, Conn. In upping its record to 30-4, the top-seeded Mustangs registered a second…
Cincinnati and Connecticut played an American Athletic Conference tournament semifinal Saturday more worthy of the Big East Conference both programs once inhabited. In a bare-knuckle, back-alley street fight of a game at XL Center in Hartford, Conn., the No. 15 Bearcats emerged as survivors, thanks to 25 points from Gary Clark and some unusually good foul…
Cincinnati didn't mess around in the quarterfinals of the American Athletic Conference Tournament Friday night. Kyle Washington scored 21 points and Jacob Evans added 20 as the No. 15 Bearcats breezed into Saturday's second semifinal with an 80-61 beating of Tulsa at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. Both Washington and Evans canned 8-of-10 shots from…
