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-====== Big East Conference ======
-{{:men_s_basketball:conf_bigeast.jpg?175  }}The Big East was founded in 1979 when [[Providence]], [[St. John's]], [[Georgetown]], and [[Syracuse]] invited [[Seton Hall]], [[Rutgers]], [[Connecticut]], [[Holy Cross]], and [[Boston College]] to form a conference primarily focused on basketball, with [[Rutgers]] and [[Holy Cross]] declining to join. [[Villanova]] joined a year later in 1980 and [[Pittsburgh]] joined in 1982. In 1985, [[Penn State]] applied for membership, but was rejected, with only five schools in favor ([[Penn State]] needed six out of eight). It was long rumored that [[Syracuse]] cast the deciding vote against [[Penn State]], but Mike Tranghese confirmed that this was not the case and that [[Syracuse]] had, in fact, voted for [[Penn State]]'s inclusion.
-About a decade after the conference's inception, Big East members decided to become a major football conference and thus added five schools including four-time champion [[Miami]], [[Temple]], [[Virginia Tech]], [[West Virginia]], and [[Rutgers]]. [[Penn State]] joined the Big Ten Conference. The inaugural Big East football season launched in 1991.  [[West Virginia]] and [[Rutgers]] were football-only members until 1995, [[Virginia Tech]] was a football-only member until 2001, with [[Temple]] remaining a football-only member until 2004, after failing to attract enough consistent fan support. The Big East offered [[Notre Dame]] a non-football membership effective 1995. This led to an unusual conference structure with some schools competing in Division I basketball only.
-This had long led to rumors of instability, and in 2003, ongoing press reports of tensions between the football schools and the basketball schools finally exploded into a months-long public tug-of-war between the Big East and the Atlantic Coast Conference over several Big East members. The end result was that three Big East schools — [[Virginia Tech]], [[Miami]] and [[Boston College]] — moved to the ACC, while five teams moved to the Big East from Conference USA — [[Louisville]], [[Cincinnati]], [[South Florida]], Marquette, and [[DePaul]].
-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.
-In January 2006, Loyola University Maryland (then Loyola College in Maryland) joined as an associate member in the sport of women's lacrosse.
-[[TCU|Texas Christian University]] will join the conference as an all-sports member beginning in the 2012–2013 academic year.
-===== Big East Members =====
-[[Cincinnati|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_cin.gif|}}]]
-[[Connecticut|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_uconn.gif|}}]]
-[[DePaul|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_depaul.gif|}}]]
-[[Georgetown|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_georgetown.gif|}}]]
-[[Louisville|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_lou.gif|}}]]
-[[men_s_basketball:start|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_marquette.gif|}}]]
-[[Notre Dame|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_nd.gif|}}]]
-[[Pittsburgh|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_pitt.gif|}}]]
-[[Providence|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_pc.gif|}}]]
-[[Rutgers|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_rutgers.gif|}}]]
-[[St. Johns|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_stjohns.gif|}}]]
-[[Seton Hall|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_sh.gif|}}]]
-[[South Florida|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_usf.gif|}}]]
-[[Syracuse|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_syracuse.gif|}}]]
-[[TCU|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_tcu.gif|}}]]
-[[Villanova|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_villanova.gif|}}]]
-[[West Virginia|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_westvirginia.gif|}}]]
-===== Photos =====
-{{men_s_basketball:big_east_teams.jpg}}

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