Wichita State Joins The American

The American Athletic Conference took a giant step toward upgrading its men’s basketball Friday when conference Board of Directors voted unanimously to add Wichita State as a conference member.

Wichita State has been one of the storied programs in the Missouri Valley Conference, making the NCAA tournament for the past six years and advancing to the Final Four in 2013. The Shockers had Louisville on the ropes in the national semifinals that year before losing,72-68.

Wichita State should be congratulated for realizing that while there is great nostalgia from playing in the Valley since 1945, the Shockers are ready to move forward in the ever changing landscape of college athletics…

Read the full article at American Athletic Conference (http://theamerican.org).