The shakeup of Conference USA is not over yet.

Charlotte and Saint Louis will be leaving the conference in 2005 to head to the Atlantic 10. The moves come just a week after the league lost five members to the revamped Big East and added five new members of its own from the Mid-American and Western Athletic conferences.

Graduation Rates

Conference USA had the biggest gains in the classroom from the recent wave of expansion in college sports. The graduation rate for football players in the conference will improve from 42 percent to 57 percent after replacing Cincinnati, Louisville and South Florida with Rice, Tulsa and SMU. The ACC remained first with a 59 percent football graduation rate after adding Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech. The graduation rates were compiled by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. The data is based on students graduating from the 1993-94 academic year through 1996-97. Athletes are given six years to graduate. The Pac-10 joined Conference USA with a 57 percent graduation rate, followed by the Big Ten, Mid-American, Southeastern, Big 12, Big East, Western Athletic, Sun Belt and Mountain West.

Charlotte is expected to officially announce the move Monday afternoon, while Saint Louis should make its decision official Tuesday.

"The landscape has changed and the Conference USA that we have known and loved will no longer exist," Charlotte athletic director Judy Rose said. "We needed to find a new home and the Atlantic 10 was a perfect fit."

Last Tuesday, shortly after losing five schools to the Big East, C-USA added Central Florida, Marshall, Rice, SMU and Tulsa.

Conference commissioner Britton Banowsky said at the time that those changes may have forced Charlotte and Saint Louis to look elsewhere, as they were the only non-football schools remaining in the conference.

"We hope this concludes the restructuring but realize that there may be more change," he said last week.

Cincinnati, DePaul, Louisville, Marquette and South Florida all are headed to the Big East. DePaul and Marquette will join in all sports but football. The Big East made its move after Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College bolted to the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Atlantic 10 commissioner Linda Bruno said there is no plan to change the name of the conference.

"There hasn't been 10 schools since 1990,'' Bruno said. "We have a lot of equity in that name and we just redid our logo."