The University of Cincinnati and five other...

The University of Cincinnati and five other schools have agreed to form a new conference for basketball and other sports, according to the Cincinnati Post. The league, tentatively referred to as the Big Midwest, is to begin play in 1991-92 and will include Cincinnati and Memphis State from the Metro Conference, Alabama Birmingham from the Sun Belt Conference, St. Louis and Marquette from the Midwestern Collegiate Conference and independent DePaul, the newspaper said.