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Big East Men’s Basketball Preview: Is UConn in Position For Three-Peat?

On paper, this conference should send at least five and possibly more teams to the Big Dance this season.

Sports Illustrated

Rick Pitino, Dan Hurley Return Spice and Competition to Big East Tournament

A pair of technicals in the tournament semifinals by the big-personality coaches evokes throwback to conference’s heyday in 1980s.

Sports Illustrated

‘Trending’ Coach Kim English Gives Providence a Laugh After Upsetting Creighton

The No. 7-seeded Friars reached the Big East Conference tournament semifinals with a 78-73 victory.

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Men’s Bracket Watch: No. 1 Seed Line Changes, Two Big East Teams Join Field

Conference tournaments are underway with the first automatic bid available on Saturday.

Sports Illustrated

15 Thought Leaders on Esports

Make way Big East Conference, there's a fairly new collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in 10 men’s sports and 12 women’s sports. It's esports.

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Dom Amore: If Big 12 calls, UConn will have to choose between Big East love and Power Five money

HARTFORD, Conn. — The head follows the money. The heart wants what it wants.

Tribune News Service

Mike Sielski: Jay Wright is becoming the TV face of college hoops. He’d be nuts to coach again.

Halftime of Connecticut-St. Mary’s on Sunday night in the NCAA Tournament’s second round, UConn up one, and if you left your television tuned to TNT during the break, you saw and heard Jay Wright in his sweet spot. He knew the coaches and teams well — the Huskies’ Danny Hurley…

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Tracking each major hire during the 2023 men’s college basketball coaching carousel

Some major shakeups in the Big East kicked off the 2023 men's college basketball coaching carousel.

USA Today Sports Media Group

How the Big East Rose From the Ashes of Its Doomed Predecessor

Wednesday marks the beginning of the Big East men’s basketball tournament—and the 10-year anniversary of a bold move that saved the conference from extinction.

Sports Illustrated

Xavier vs. UConn, live stream, TV channel, time, odds, how to watch college basketball

The Xavier Musketeers and the Connecticut Huskies will face off in a Big East college basketball battle on Thursday night.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Villanova claws back to .500 fueled by a 57-49 win over Big East foe St. John’s

NEW YORK — Brandon Slater’s birth name is James, and when he’s playing well, Villanova coach Kyle Neptune calls him “Jimmy.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Providence vs. Marquette, live stream, TV channel, time, odds, how to watch college basketball

The 20th-ranked Marquette Golden Eagles will host the 22nd-ranked Providence Friars in a Big East college basketball matchup.

USA Today Sports Media Group

No. 3 UConn surges late, opens Big East play with 68-46 win at Butler

INDIANAPOLIS — Dan Hurley had a feeling entering conference play that his UConn men’s basketball team coasting to double-digit victories would come to an end against Big East opponents. Despite the 68-46 final score against Butler in the conference opener on Saturday, he was right.

Tribune News Service

UConn men jump to No. 8 in latest AP poll, Clingan earns Big East weekly award after claiming Phil Knight Invitational

The UConn men’s basketball team jumped 12 spots in the latest AP Top 25 rankings released Monday after an impressive run to the Phil Knight Invitational title. The Huskies defeated Oregon, new-No. 11 Alabama and Iowa State, now ranked No. 23, to win the tournament.

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Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist is a Big East prime-time attraction

NEW YORK — Maddy Siegrist, reigning Big East player of the year, answers most questions with a kind of wry half-smile, game for most any query, strange or straightforward.

Tribune News Service

ACC helped kick start the conference expansion race which now threatens its survival

On the other end of the phone, Mike Tranghese sighed quietly. It was a sound that conveyed a sense of empathy, if not resignation. The emotions returned, almost 20 years later. Back then, as the commissioner of the original Big East Conference, Tranghese watched with a sense of helplessness while…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Villanova takes out Butler in last regular-season game, 78-59

An early Villanova defensive lockdown decided things Saturday as the Wildcats closed out their regular season with a 78-59 takedown of Butler inside historic Hinkle Fieldhouse, traditionally a tough Big East stop for Villanova.

Tribune News Service

No. 24 UConn falls to No. 25 Xavier, 74-68

CINCINNATI — The UConn men’s basketball, looking for a second straight win over a ranked conference opponent, ran into a desperate Xavier team and dropped a 74-68 Big East decision at the Cintas Center on Friday night.

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