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Table Of Contents 15 Park Row West • Providence, RI 02903 • (401) 244-3278 • [email protected] ContentsC t t 2014-15 Notebook . 2-4 Conference Office Staff Directory About the American . 5 STAFF E-MAIL: @theamerican.org Commissioner Mike Aresco . .6 American Athletic Staff . 7-8 2014-15 Composite Schedule . 9-10 Commissioner Assistant Commissioner (Sport Digital Communications Coordinator 2014-15 Television Schedule. 11 Michael L. Aresco Administration & Championships) Jamie L. Corun Digital Media Services. 12 commissioner@ Robert A. Weygand, Jr. jcorun@ 2015 Tournament Schedule/Bracket . 13 Senior Associate Commissioner bweygand@ Administrative Assistant Tournament Site – Mohegan Sun Arena . 14 (Administration/SWA) Senior Director of Compliance Wanda L. Factor Donna DeMarco Andrea C. Smith wfactor@ Meet The Teams ddemarco@ asmith@ Administrative Assistant UCF . 16-19 Senior Associate Commissioner Director of Football and for Officiating Cincinnati . 20-23 (Broadcasting & Digital Content) Video Administration Linda M. Yates UConn . 24-27 Thomas R. Odjakjian Michael A. Costa lyates@ East Carolina . 28-31 todjakjian@ mcosta@ Houston. 32-35 Receptionist Memphis. 36-39 Chief Financial Officer Director of Business Affairs Kathy M. Kirkpatrick USF . 40-43 John R. Larson Karen M. Giblin kstone@ SMU. 44-47 jlarson@ kgiblin@ Administrative Fellow Temple. 48-51 Associate Commissioner (Football) Director of Communications Alvin B. Hines, II Tulane . 52-55 Scott A. Draper Chevonne M. Mansfield ahines@ Tulsa . 56-59 All-Time Coaches’ Records. 60 sdraper@ cmansfield@ Compliance Assistant Associate Commissioner Director of Communications Andrew Kappers (Governance & Compliance) Charles V. Sullivan akappers@ Records Individual Conference Records . 62-70 Ellen M. Ferris csullivan@ Communications Assistant Team Conference Records. 71-76 eferris@ Assistant Director of Sport Miles McQuiggan Associate Commissioner Administration & Championships mmcquiggan@ History (Women’s Basketball) Patrick B. Colbert Digital Network Assistant The American in the NCAA Championship. 78-81 Barbara Jacobs pcolbert@ Hali Oughton bjacobs @ The American in the WNIT . 82 Assistant Director of houghton@ The American Players in the WNBA. 83 Associate Commissioner Broadcast Scheduling Communications Assistant The American Players in the (Men’s Basketball) Michael A. Coyne Rebecca Viscomi Olympics/National Team . .84 Dan Leibovitz mcoyne@ rviscomi@ dleibovitz@ Assistant to the Commissioner Men’s Basketball Officiating Credits Associate Commissioner Lisa S. Zanecchia Consortium (Current Coordinator) Editor: Chevonne Mansfield (Communications) lzanecchia@ Curtis Shaw Special Assistance: Ashley Bryant, Miles Megan A. Morgan McQuiggan, Chuck Sullivan, Rebecca Viscomi Executive Assistant Coordinator of mmorgan@ for Administration Designed by The ON3 Group, Greenwich, Conn. Football Officiating and Jim Murphy. Printed by Integrity Graphics. Associate Commissioner Lois A. DeBlois Terry McAulay (Sport Administration & Championships) ldeblois@ Special thanks to Ben Solomon and the Coordinator of school athletic communications departments James A. Siedliski Branding & Sport for their valuable assistance and cooperation. jsiedliski@ Women’s Basketball Officiating Administration Coordinator Debbie Williamson Assistant Commissioner (Digital Media) Catherine W. Carmignani Mark A. Hodgkin ccarmignani@ mhodgkin@ 2014-15 Media Guide 1 Notebook 2014-2015 2015 Final Four to be Held in Tampa Tampa Bay will serve as host to the NCAA Women’s Final Four for the second time when it comes to the Tampa Bay Times Forum on April 5 and 7, 2015. The NCAA, Tampa Bay Local Organizing Committee, Tampa Bay Sports Commission and USF will host the event. 2 Women’s Basketball Notebook 2014-2015 Welcome Home Three new teams are joining The American. East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa joined the league in July 2014 from Conference USA. East Carolina and Tulane appeared in the Women’s NIT tournament last season. Auriemma and Stewart Earn FIBA World Championship Gold UConn head coach Geno Auriemma and junior forward Breanna Stewart both were part of the USA Basketball Women’s World Championship Team that went undefeated in the FIBA World Championship in Turkey. Auriemma coached several of his former players including Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Diana Taurasi. Stewart was the only college athlete to make the team. Winning the FIBA title automatically qualifies Team USA for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro. Tulane Alum Impacts WNBA Former Tulane standout Barbara Farris will serve her second straight season with the New York Liberty as an assistant coach. Farris, a Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame member, was drafted No. 3 overall by New England Blizzard, an American Basketball Association team, in 1998. She joined the WNBA in 2000 and played with the Detroit Shock. She spent 10 years playing in the WNBA. Televised Midnight Madness to Feature Defending National Champions ESPN tipped off the 2014-15 college basketball season with Midnight Madness coverage from 11 campuses, including the 2014 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division I National Champion UConn Huskies. ESPNU Midnight Madness combined studio and remote coverage and brought fans a three-hour start of the season celebration. ESPN3 also provided Midnight Madness coverage and carried UConn’s “First Night.” ESPN3’s content is available on-demand. 2014-15 Media Guide 3 Notebook 2014-2015 Gobble, Gobble, Tournament Time In late November when some of us will be at home enjoying a Thanksgiving feast, many of The American basketball programs will be competing in tournaments all over the country and the Caribbean. Cincinnati – Cal Thanksgiving Classic (Berkeley, Calif.) UConn – Gulf Coast Showcase (Estero, Fla.) East Carolina – Junkanoo Jam (Freeport, Bahamas) Houston – San Juan Shootout (San Juan, Puerto Rico) USF – Paradise Jam (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands) SMU – SMU Thanksgiving Classic (Dallas, Texas) Tulane – Hofstra Thanksgiving Tournament (Hempstead, N.Y.) Tulsa – Miami Thanksgiving Classic (Miami, Fla.) Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, UConn Courtney Williams, USF Two Conference Teams Featured in ESPN Big Monday games UConn will appear in two Big Monday games on ESPN2 this season. The Huskies will face South Carolina in their first Big Monday matchup on Feb. 9 (8 p.m. ET). On March 2, USF hosts UConn at 7 p.m. Eastern. 4 Women’s Basketball About The American THE AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ot entirely unlike the The American Athletic Conference holds television nation that provides its partnerships with ESPN and CBS Sports which will give the Nnamesake, the American conference unprecedented national exposure. The football Athletic Conference was born portion of the contract, which begins in the 2014 season, from an ideal in which members calls for nearly 90 percent of conference-controlled games with ambitious goals are provided on national broadcast or national cable platforms. The first with the means to succeed in American Athletic Conference Football Championship, which their quests for excellence. will be played in 2015, will be carried either on ABC or ESPN on Championship Saturday. With roots that extend to three conferences, the American In men’s basketball, the television deal calls for all Athletic Conference membership conference-controlled games to be televised, with more than in 2014-15 consists of 11 63 percent slotted for national broadcast or national cable – a institutions: the University of minimum of 107 games. The entire postseason tournament Central Florida, the University will be televised, including the championship game, which of Cincinnati, East Carolina University, the University of will be either on ABC or ESPN. Sixty percent of the American’s Connecticut, the University of Houston, the University of women’s basketball games will be carried on either national Memphis, the University of South Florida Southern Methodist cable, regional sports networks or ESPN3. University, Temple University, Tulane University and the University of Tulsa. American Athletic Conference teams will have access to the pinnacle of college football’s postseason structure. An The 2015-16 season sees the U.S. Naval Academy join the American representative would be chosen for the College ranks in football only. Football Playoff semifinals if it is among the top four teams following the regular season. Otherwise, the league would Under the leadership of commissioner Mike Aresco, The place its champion in either the Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl American, which operated as the Big East Conference from or Peach Bowl if it is ranked higher than the champions of 1979 to 2013, has immediately taken a place at the forefront Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, the Mountain of Division I athletics, with schools that have played in four West Conference and the Sun Belt Conference. Bowl Championship Series games, won four NCAA men’s basketball titles since 1999, and won nine NCAA women’s Additionally, The American has announced primary or basketball championships since 1995. secondary partnerships with 12 bowls for the next six- year cycle, ensuring multiple annual matchups against the Two American Athletic Conference football teams were nation’s top conferences and providing desirable postseason ranked in the top 15 of the final 2013 Associated Press poll. destinations to member institutions and their fans. Five were selected for bowl games, including UCF, which won the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and finished the season ranked The American Athletic Conference administers