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 ====== Big East Conference ====== ====== Big East Conference ======
-{{:men_s_basketball:conf_bigeast.jpg?150  }}The Big East Conference was formed in 1979, and originally consisted of seven schools The league has since grown to 16 member institutionsconcentrated in the northeast but located as far west as Marquette and as far south as South Florida \\ +{{:men_s_basketball:conf_bigeast.jpg?175  }}The Big East was founded in 1979 when [[Providence]][[StJohn's]], [[Georgetown]], and [[Syracuse]] invited [[Seton Hall]], [[Rutgers]], [[Connecticut]], [[Holy Cross]], and [[Boston College]] to form a conference primarily focused on basketballwith [[Rutgers]] and [[Holy Cross]] declining to join[[Villanova]] joined year later in 1980 and [[Pittsburgh]] joined in 1982. In 1985[[Penn State]] applied for membershipbut 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.
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-The Big East has always been basketball-first conference; in factthe league did not sponsor football until 1991the year before football power Miami was added to the league.  The league's basketball tournament has been one of the nation's most important conference tourneys since the inaugural event in 1980.+
  
 +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.
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 +{{  men_s_basketball:big_east_teams.jpg?200}}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.
  
 ===== Big East Members ===== ===== Big East Members =====
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 [[West Virginia|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_westvirginia.gif|}}]] [[West Virginia|{{:men_s_basketball:teams_westvirginia.gif|}}]]
  
-===== 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. 
  
-The Big East Tournament format has changed over the years as schools have been added to the league.  The current format involves only 12 of the 16 schools; the top four teams receive a bye into the quarterfinals, while the bottom four teams do not qualify for the tournament.  The first round doubleheaders are held on Wednesday at 12 noon and 7 pm.  The quarterfinals are held on Thursday, also at 12 noon and 7 pm. 
  
-The quarterfinal winners meet in Friday night's semifinals beginning at 7 pm.  On Saturday night, the last two survivors meet at 8 to decide the championship. 
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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.  Prices escalate as the tournament progresses; first round tickets are cheap, championship game tickets are not.  2006 marked the first time the entire tournament was sold out to the member schools without a public sale. 
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-If you can't procure your tickets in advance, you'll be buying on the street.  Most Big East schools are within driving distance of New York, and teams like Connecticut, Syracuse, St. John's, and Notre Dame have huge fan bases in New York City.  Therefore, tickets to the semifinals and championship can be hard to find, depending on who is playing.  As with any basketball tournament, if you're buying on the street we recommend buying tickets early, as soon as you find a price you're willing to pay. 
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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's championship.  The tournament is always contested at Madison Square Garden in New York. 
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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 
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