Question: What was a predecessor of the Atlantic 10 which is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division?
Context: The Big West Conference (BWC) is an American collegiate athletic conference whose member institutions participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I.  The conference was originally formed in 1969 as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) and in 1988 was renamed the Big West Conference.  The conference stopped sponsoring college football after the 2000 season. The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States.  It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Men's National Collegiate Athletic Association is an athletic association in the Philippines, and is the direct counterpart of the older Women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (founded in 1970).  The Men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (MNCAA) is exclusive for men.  The MNCAA was founded in 2004.  Competition is divided into three divisions: Seniors for college students, Juniors for high school students, and Midgets for grade school and first year high school students.  The competing sports of the tournament are Basketball, Volleyball, Futsal, Table Tennis, Badminton and Streetdance. The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).  Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports except football, which competes in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA).  Participating schools are located in the Northeastern United States. The American Lacrosse Conference (ALC) was a women's lacrosse-only college athletic conference whose members competed at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).  All of the ALC's members throughout its history were located in the eastern half of the United States.  The conference was founded in 2001 in advance of the 2002 NCAA lacrosse season with seven members; nine schools were members at one time or another during its history. The Saint Louis Billikens are the collegiate athletic teams from Saint Louis University of St. Louis, Missouri.  The Billikens compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (where they are the westernmost member, and both the first member located west of the Mississippi and in the Central Time Zone).  SLU is heavily rumored to be joining the Big East Conference, which would include more geographically relevant rivals like Creighton (Nebraska), Marquette (Wisconsin), and DePaul (in Chicago).  The school has nationally recognized soccer programs for men and women.  The school has heavily invested in its on-campus athletic facilities in the past twenty years with the creation of Hermann Stadium and Chaifetz Arena.  Chris May is the current director of athletics of the St. Louis Billikens. The Centenary Gentlemen baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.  The team is a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III.  Prior to 2011, Centenary was a member of the NCAA Division I, and competed in the Summit League.  The Gentlemen are coached by Mike Diaz.  In 2013, the Gents won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season, the school's first regular season championship since 1988.  The Gents repeated as SCAC regular season champions in 2015. The Boston University Terriers football program were the American football team for Boston University located in Boston, Massachusetts.  The team competed in the NCAA Division I-AA and were members of the Yankee Conference and later the Atlantic 10 Conference.  The school's first football team was fielded in 1884.  Boston University participated in football from 1884-1997, compiling an all-time record of 323–390–34.  Boston University terminated their DI-AA football program on Homecoming Weekend 1997 during a one-win season in the Atlantic 10.  The players at the time were allowed to keep their 4-year scholarships or transfer without NCAA penalties.  The University has used the former-football scholarships to comply with Title IX requirements. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States of America in which its fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I, with its football teams competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest levels for athletic competition in US-based collegiate sports.  The ACC sponsors competition in twenty-five sports with many of its member institutions' athletic programs held in high regard nationally.  Members of the conference are Boston College, Clemson University, Duke University, Georgia Tech, Florida State University, North Carolina State University, Syracuse University, the University of Louisville, the University of Miami, the University of North Carolina, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest University. The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I.  The A-10's member schools are located in states mostly on the United States Eastern Seaboard, as well as some in the Midwest – Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Ohio, and Missouri as well as in the District of Columbia.  Although some of its members are state-funded, half of its membership is made up of private, Catholic institutions.  Despite the name, there are 14 full-time members, and two affiliate members that participate in women's field hockey only.
Answer: Yankee Conference