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NCAA Atlantic 10 Conference

The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio: Dayton and Xavier, located in Dayton and Cincinnati, respectively. Another member, St. Louis is also located in St. Louis, Missouri It participates in the NCAA's Division I-AA for football and Division I for all other sports, but will disband its football division after the 2006 football season.

Despite the name, there are 24 partial or full-time members; 12 schools play football, 14 basketball and other sports, and one affiliate member participates in women's field hockey only. Only three schools—UMass, Rhode Island, and Richmond—are members in both football and basketball. This odd conference construction is because the A-10 Football Conference was created in 1997 by a takeover of the football-only Yankee Conference, due to NCAA rules changes that significantly diminished the legislative input of single-sport conferences. The members of the Yankee Conference narrowly chose the A-10's merger proposal over that of the Colonial Athletic Association; this decision was later revisited by the football-playing members of the A-10, as explained below.

Xavier University

Xavier University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Today, Xavier University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. It educates over 4000 undergraduate and 2500 graduate students annually. Xavier is primarily a liberal arts institution. Graduate programs include education, psychology, and business.

Xavier competes at the NCAA Division I level in the Atlantic Ten Conference, and their mascot is the Musketeer. Xavier sponsors eight intercollegiate sports for men, and eight sports for women. Xavier sports teams have several traditional rivalries with local universities, including Cincinnati and the University of Dayton.

The Xavier men's basketball team is perhaps the best known of the sports sponsored at Xavier. The team has enjoyed considerable recent success, reaching the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament in 2004. Several Xavier alumni have gone on to play in the NBA. The annual basketball competition between Xavier and Cincinnati is called the Crosstown Shootout, while Xavier and Dayton play for the Blackburn/McCafferty Trophy, named for former coaches at the respective universities.

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