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Published: Nov. 28, 2012 at 12:05 a.m. PST
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T he Western Athletic Conference is adding Grand Canyon University to replace the University of Denver, which is bolting for the Summit League after just one year in the WAC. But the WAC must find another school in order to keep its automatic qualifying berths in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. … The Big East moved quickly to replace Rutgers, getting Tulane and East Carolina to agree to join the re-invented conference in 2014. Tulane and East Carolina will make it six Conference USA schools to join the Big East in the last two years.

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