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- | ====== Big East Conference ====== | ||
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- | About a decade after the conference' | ||
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- | This had long led to rumors of instability, | ||
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- | The addition of the three football schools, along with Big East non-football member Connecticut moving up to the Big East football conference, ensured that the league would keep the minimum eight teams needed to keep its BCS bid. In addition two traditional basketball teams, DePaul and Marquette, were added to gain the Chicago and Milwaukee television markets and help the already solid basketball status of the conference.[citation needed] | ||
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- | Currently, the Big East represents the majority of the large, athletically competitive private Catholic schools, while public schools UConn, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Rutgers, South Florida, West Virginia and Cincinnati are located in areas with large Catholic communities.[citation needed] Five of the founding seven schools are Catholic schools — Providence, St. John' | ||
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- | In January 2006, Loyola University Maryland (then Loyola College in Maryland) joined as an associate member in the sport of women' | ||
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- | Big East schools compete in Division I in basketball and Olympic sports. Football members of the conference participate in Division I FBS. Notre Dame remains an FBS independent, | ||
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- | The eight schools that play football in the conference are all state-supported (or in the case of Pittsburgh, state-related) with the exception of Syracuse (a private but secular institution), | ||
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- | Beginning in 2010, the Big East sponsored a men's lacrosse league with Georgetown, Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s, Syracuse and Villanova participating. | ||
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- | Texas Christian University will join the conference as an all-sports member beginning in the 2012–2013 academic year. | ||
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- | ===== Big East Members ===== | ||
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- | ===== Big East Tournament ===== | ||
- | After being held in Providence, Hartford, and Syracuse in its first three years, the conference tournament moved to its seemingly permanent home, Madison Square Garden in New York, in 1983. The tournament has been held there ever since, and will be held there at least through 2011. | ||
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- | Big East Tournament tickets are sold on a per-session basis; you do not need to buy a booklet for the entire tournament. | ||
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- | If you can't procure your tickets in advance, you'll be buying on the street. | ||
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- | Keep in mind that some schools do not qualify for the conference tournament; many fans from these schools will not be using their tickets. | ||
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- | === Big East Tournament Dates === | ||
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- | The Big East Tournament is always held in early March, and runs from Wednesday afternoon through Saturday night' | ||
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- | 2008 - March 13-16 | ||
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- | 2009 - March 12-15 | ||
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- | 2010 - March 11-14 | ||
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- | 2011 - March 10-13 | ||
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- | 2012 - March 8-11 |