East Carolina has been left out of the latest round of Big East Conference expansion after Memphis accepted a bid to the league on Wednesday.

Memphis is the seventh school, and fourth from Conference USA, to sign up since December for future membership in the Big East. The Tigers will compete in the Big East in all sports.

The Pirates, who applied for Big East membership last September, join Marshall, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulsa, Tulane, UAB and UTEP as the remaining teams in Conference USA.

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