Fertile ground for turnarounds, who is next to surge in AAC?
(World News USA)

Nobody saw Cincinnati coming in the American Athletic Conference last year. Not even Luke Fickell, who guided the team to a seven-victory improvement in his second season as Bearcats coach. `As you go through it in your head did you really imagine yourself winning 11 games in Year 2?,` Fickell said. `The progression throughout the entire year is what you remember most.` Best to expect the unexpected in the AAC. The league has been fertile ground for fast turnarounds since it rose from the ashes of the old Big East in 2013. Starting in 2014, when Memphis jumped from three victories to 10 and a share of the conference championship, the American has had at least one team each season that...