AAC asks former Big East commissioner to help elevate AAC profile
In this Oct. 26, 2005, file photo, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese talks to reporters during Big East NCAA college basketball media day at Madison Square Garden in New York. Tranghese is now going to advise the AAC on its basketball strategy and growth. (AP File Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)
The American Athletic Conference will work with one of the most respected minds in college basketball to improve its basketball product with the goal of becoming a consistent multi-bid league in the NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments.
The AAC has engaged former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese to advise the conference on its basketball strategy and growth, a league spokesperson told The Daily Memphian on Tuesday morning.
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Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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