Well, it’s finally official. The ‘Board of Trustees’ at the University of Connecticut have voted on allowing the UConn Huskies to re-join the Big East Conference (minus their football team). While this news doesn’t really come as a shock, it does come in a moment where not a lot of people were expecting it. After all, with Villanova taking home
Ahh, the Big East. THE best pure basketball conference in the entire country. Physicality, history, and players that aren’t obsessed with one-and-done. That’s what makes up this conference. It is the grittiest conference in America, and year after year outperforms pre-season expectations. What’s not to love? I had the privilege to chat with Coach Ed Cooley of the Providence Friars
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The defending National Champions, Vilanova, escaped Saint Mary’s Thursday evening 61-57 to keep their hopes alive to repeat as National Champions. Saint Mary’s earned the #11 seed in the NCAA tournament by taking down Gonzaga in the WCC tournamnet but was unable to do do the same to the Big East champions. In a low scoring afair Malik Fitts and
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#11 Arizona State advance to play #6 Buffalo in the round of 64 after a 75-64 victory over St. John’s. Luguentz Dort led the way for the Sun Devils with 21 while Zylan Cheatham added 14 in a game where Arizona State won the battle of ugly play. The Sun Devils as a team turned the ball over 21 times
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As the First Four tips tonight in Dayton, the 2019 NCAA Tournament is upon us. Here are the top 5 first round match-ups to watch: 5. #4 Virginia Tech vs. #13 Saint Louis Friday 9:57 PM ET TruTV An East region first round match-up, as the automatic qualifier from the A-10 Saint Louis meets a hungry Virginia Tech team. The
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New York, New York. Madison Square Garden. Basketball’s most famous arena. The Big East Finals between the Villanova Wildcats and Seton Hall Pirates. Villanova is searching for their fourth Big East tournament title in the last five years and their third straight while Seton Hall looks to get back on top of the Big East for their first tournament title
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In a chippy heated game that saw three ejections, eight technicals and, multiple flagrant fouls, Marquette and Seton Hall fought it out to the end in what brought back memories of the old Big East. It’s their third meeting of the season with both teams winning their matchup at home. Marquette came out of the gates quickly with Markus Howard
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Xavier and Villanova meet in the first semifinal of the Big East tournament in what looks to be a must-win game for the Musketeers. Xavier and Villanova split their previous meeting in the regular season and the rubber match of the two dominate Big East programs will decide who plays for the Big East Championship. In the first meeting, Villanova
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It has been a season of unpredictability in the Big East and much of that looks to remain the same moving forward into the Big East Tournament. The Big East looked like an unfiltered MMA brawl throughout the year and nothing is going to stop that moving forward. The Big East finished as the only conference in the NCAA with
Read moreNo one has been a bigger fan of the Georgetown Hoyas this year more than I. I may have some partiality to the Hoyas since one of our former players is now playing there and performing at a high level. I also do not see through rose colored glasses at how the Hoyas are as a team. One day they can
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