American Athletic Conference votes unanimously to add Wichita State

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(Brett McMurphy – ESPN – Please click to read the full story. Here is an excerpt.) The American Athletic Conference unanimously voted Friday morning to add Wichita State as a league member for the 2017-18 season. Wichita State announced it would accept the AAC’s invitation and leave the Missouri Valley Conference, where the Shockers have been members since 1945. Wichita State will join the AAC in all sports, except football, giving the AAC both a 12-team football and basketball league. The AAC has 11 all-sports members (Cincinnati, UConn, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa and Central Florida) and Navy is a football-only member. Wichita State has not had a football team since 1986.