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In March 2013, the new conference purchased the Big East Conference name, logos, basketball records, and the rights to the men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden from the football-playing members of the old Big East, who formed the American Athletic Conference (AAC), which is the old conference's legal successor. [4]
The 2024–25 Big East men's basketball season is the current season for Big East Conference basketball teams that began with practices in October 2023, followed by the start of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season which will begin in November 2024. Conference play will begin in December 2024 and ended in March 2025.
The original Big East Conference began play in the 1979–80 season. After the end of the 2012–13 season, seven schools left that conference to join three other schools in forming a new Big East Conference which began play in the 2013–14 season, while the old conference renamed itself the American Athletic Conference , marketed as "The ...
Seeding for the Big East Tournament 2024. UConn, the third-ranked team in country, enters the conference tournament as the top-seed after going 28-3 with an 18-2 conference record.
The Big East, often referred to as the Classic Big East, was founded in 1979 after new NCAA basketball scheduling requirements caused the athletic directors of independent schools Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse to discuss the creation of a conference centered in the Northeast. [5]
The 2023–24 Big East men's basketball season began with practices in October 2023, followed by the start of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November 2023. Conference play began in December 2023 and ended in March.
The final Big East tournament held by the original Big East Conference, which took place in 2013, saw only 14 teams compete—West Virginia had left the Big East for the Big 12 Conference after the 2011–12 season, and Connecticut was barred from the tournament due to an NCAA postseason ban for academic reasons. In that tournament, the teams ...
The 2024 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big East Conference held March 13–16, 2024, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. [1] The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Tournament.