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UMass will be part of the MidAmerican Conference as a full member beginning within the 202526 educational 12 months, MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher stated Tuesday.
CLEVELAND: UMass will be part of the Mid-American Conference as a full member beginning within the 2025-26 educational 12 months, MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher stated Tuesday.
Steinbrecher confirmed that the MAC’s council of presidents voted Monday to confess UMass. The league will make a proper announcement on Thursday and there will likely be a information convention on the varsity’s campus subsequent week.
Steinbrecher didn’t supply every other particulars on the convention’s settlement with UMass, which was a football-only member of the MAC from 2012-15.
“We look forward to the relationship,” stated Steinbrecher, who spoke to The Associated Press after a information convention for the upcoming Women’s Final Four in Cleveland.
The Minutemen at the moment are an impartial in soccer and compete within the Atlantic 10 in most different sports activities, excluding males’s hockey, which is a part of Hockey East.
UMass is the one A-10 college that performs soccer on the highest tier of Division I, often known as the Bowl Subdivision.
The Minutemen had a football-only membership within the MAC when the varsity first moved up from the Championship Subdivision to FBS from 2012-15. They gained solely eight video games throughout that point and have been primarily booted from the convention.
They have operated as a soccer impartial since however have but to win greater than 4 video games in a season. The addition of UMass offers the MAC 13 full members, principally situated in Ohio and Michigan, and can now give the convention attain into the Northeast.
With Army set to affix the American Athletic Conference in 2024, UMass’ transfer would lower the variety of FBS independents to 2: Notre Dame and UConn.
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AP College Sports Writer Ralph D. Russo contributed to this report.
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AP school soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
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