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Established
  
1990

Association
  
NCAA

Members
  
7

Dissolved
  
1995

Division
  
Division I

Great Midwest Conference

Region
  
Midwestern United States

The Great Midwest Conference was an NCAA Division I athletics conference which existed from 1991 to 1995.

Contents

It was formed in 1990 with six members--Cincinnati and Memphis State (now Memphis) from the Metro Conference; UAB from the Sun Belt Conference; Marquette and Saint Louis from the Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now the Horizon League), and independent DePaul. Dayton joined in 1993. Cleveland State and Detroit-Mercy were also strongly considered.

In 1995 six of the schools in the Great Midwest (except for Dayton, who joined the Atlantic 10 Conference) joined with UNC Charlotte, Louisville, Southern Mississippi, Tulane, and South Florida of the Metro and Houston of the dissolving Southwest Conference and formed Conference USA.

Members

Notes: Dayton and Saint Louis are in the Atlantic 10 Conference; Following the July 2013 split of the original Big East Conference into two leagues, DePaul and Marquette moved to the non-football conference that retained the Big East name, while Cincinnati moved to the football-sponsoring American Athletic Conference. At the time of the Big East split, Memphis moved from C-USA to The American.

Championships

The following were the locations of the GMC men's basketball tournament.

  • 1992: Chicago Stadium; Chicago, Illinois
  • 1993: The Pyramid; Memphis, Tennessee
  • 1994: Shoemaker Center; Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 1995: Bradley Center; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • References

    Great Midwest Conference Wikipedia


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