The American Athletic Conference released league pairings for the 2016-17 college basketball season, helping bring some clarity to the path the Cincinnati Bearcats and the rest of their conference brethren will take next winter/spring. The non-conference slate still needs to be finalized, but for now, we can look forward to 18 games that are locked in.
While no dates were set for these matchups, UC will be playing UCF, UConn, East Carolina, Houston, USF, SMU, Temple and Tulane in home-and-home series. That will make up 16 of the 18 games of the schedule, with a home matchup against Memphis and an away test against East Carolina filling things out.