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Cincinnati: Big East a Big-Time Move



Big East a Big-Time Move: Cincinnati is among five schools joining the Big East on Friday, and it brings the school plenty of benefits. The school expects to earn more revenue from the conference than they did from Conference USA, while expecting increasing ticket sales and overall national exposure. It also gives the school some stability; it was an independent for five years starting in 1970, then spent 16 years in the Metro Conference as a charter member before helping to form the short-lived Great Midwest Conference. In 1995, it became a charter member of Conference USA, and now joins the biggest basketball conference in the country as the Big East will have 16 schools. [7/1/05]

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