Wichita State’s official entrance into the American Athletic Conference will come off quietly on July 1.
The school and conference will save its splash for late September when American commissioner Mike Aresco and other conference officials are scheduled to visit Wichita.
“They wanted to do it a time when people are starting to pay attention to universities again,” Wichita State president John Bardo said. “Kids are starting to think about basketball season coming up. The community is starting to think about it. It’s a good time to do that.”
WSU expects the American to pay for a downtown billboard welcoming the Shockers to the conference as July 1 nears.