The Atlantic Coast Conference announced yesterday its presidents and chancellors unanimously voted to add Louisville as the replacement for Maryland.
ACC Commissioner John Swofford said Louisville was the best fit for the league following Maryland’s announcement last week that it would join the Big Ten in 2014.
“When you look at Louisville, you see a university and an athletic program that has all the arrows pointed up — a tremendous uptick there, tremendous energy,” Swofford said on a teleconference. “It’s always an overall fit in every respect and I think that’s what we found.”
Louisville is the fourth school in 15 months and seventh in the past decade to leave the Big East for the ACC following Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Notre Dame.