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UConn AD waiting, preparing pitch to Big 12
- Updated: July 22, 2016
3:25 PM ET
STORRS, Conn. — UConn’s new athletic director says he’s waiting to hear from the Big 12 about its interest level in the school before reaching out with an official pitch to join the conference.
The Big 12’s school presidents on Tuesday moved closer to expansion, directing commissioner Bob Bowlsby to begin evaluating schools interested in joining.
UConn’s David Benedict, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press on Friday, acknowledged the Huskies are interested in being evaluated.
“At this point in time the Power 5 conferences certainly are looked to as the most competitive conferences,” he said. “They derive the most money from their multimedia agreements, their television agreements. And therefore, certainly we aspire to be in those conferences and compete at that level.”
UConn currently competes in most sports in the American Athletic Conference.
Benedict was hired in March to succeed Warde Manuel after he left for Michigan. Benedict said of all possible candidates, UConn is the most similar to the Power 5 schools, with a $71 million athletic …
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