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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 All-Big East men's basketball team is an annual Big East Conference honor bestowed on the best players in the conference following every college basketball season. [ 1 ] Players are listed by number of votes, with the player who received the most votes listed first.
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 American." Both the new Big East and The American claim the history and ...
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]
This category is for individual men's basketball seasons of the Big East Conference. It includes seasons from the original Big East Conference (1979–2013) as well as its new structure (2013–present).
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 ...
This category is for men's basketball of the Big East Conference. It includes articles and subcategories pertaining to the original Big East Conference (1979–2013) as well as its new incarnation (2013–present).
Programs that remained in the American Athletic Conference, the football-sponsoring conference that inherited the original Big East's charter and structure, after the 2013 split. Any programs that have left the current Big East since the conference split, or will do so in the future. (No full members have yet departed, but some associate ...