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The Mountain West Conference extended an invitation Wednesday morning and Nevada officials accepted just before calling a news conference on the Reno campus, school president Milton Glick said.
"This is a momentous day for the University of Nevada," he told reporters.
"I think it has long been the goal of our athletic department at the university, this community and the Board of Regents to have the traditional rivalry between UNLV and Nevada be enhanced and that we should be in the same conference," Glick said.
"I think people have been waiting a long time for this day. We think it is really a game changer for us."
Nevada and UNLV played together in the Big West Conference before UNLV went to the WAC in 1996, then became a founding member of the Mountain West in 1999. Nevada left the Big West for the WAC in 2000.
Glick said the move also will keep intact a growing rivalry between the Wolf Pack and Boise State, which announced in June it was leaving next year for the Mountain West. He said it has yet to be determined whether Nevada will join the Mountain West in 2011 or 2012.
