All six incoming schools are reportedly planning to start AAC play in 2023-24.įuture look: Charlotte, East Carolina, FAU, Memphis, North Texas, Rice, SMU, South Florida, Temple, UTSA, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, Wichita State ASUN (The football side of the league will also have 14 programs, minus non-football Wichita State and including affiliate member Navy, which will continue to serve as a core member of the Patriot League for other sports). In October, the American announced it would add six former members of Conference USA: Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA, bringing the basketball membership of the conference to 14 schools, pending the departure of the Big 12 defectors. Conference realignment tracker: Remaining questions, next steps after latest shake-up.
It should be noted that like Stony Brook, Albany, Maine and New Hampshire are current America East members who play football as part of the CAA.īryant, a member of the NEC, was officially named as a member of America East on March 29 and will begin play in the 2022-23 season.įuture look: Albany, Binghamton, Bryant, Maine, UMBC, UMass Lowell, New Hampshire, NJIT, Vermont AmericanĬurrent AAC members Cincinnati, Houston and UCF accepted invitations to the Big 12 in September, and will depart the American "no later than" the 2024-25 season (it's still possible that an exit could be negotiated in time for the 2023-24 season). The CAA, also adding Monmouth (MAAC) and Hampton (Big South) in 2022-23, is reportedly still considering further expansion. 25, the CAA announced that it would be adding Stony Brook, already a member of the football side of the conference, to further reduce the size of the America East footprint.( The America East subsequently banned Stony Brook from winning its automatic bids for the rest of 2021-22, joining the CAA as the only leagues to take such a measure in this round of realignment). Although Hartford's move to D-III is not expected to be completed until 2025, outgoing America East commissioner Amy Huchthausen told the Lowell Sun in July that 2021-22 would be the school's final year in the conference after a 38-season affiliation. Hartford announced in May that it was departing Division I, with the school planning to apply for reclassification into Division III in January 2022. This page will be continuously updated as further changes occur. Future league footprints for each affected conference are included, as well as the latest on the timetable for the forthcoming moves. To keep track of the changes, ESPN put together a conference-by-conference guide to the pending movement throughout Division I. The biggest moves - all driven by football - will occur in the Big 12, SEC, AAC, Conference USA and the Sun Belt, but frequent multibid basketball conferences including the Atlantic 10, Missouri Valley and WCC will also be undergoing alterations to their footprints.
Of college basketball's 32 Division I conferences, 20 have pending membership changes on the horizon. While realignment in college sports has largely been centered on the earth-shaking moves to come in college football, men's and women's college basketball have hardly been immune to imminent change. Another wave of NCAA conference realignment is upon us, and college sports fans have begun readying themselves for major changes across the Division I college basketball conference landscape as they have known it.
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