The Big East Conference is a college athletic conference consisting of 16 universities in the eastern part of the United States from 1979 to 2013. The conference members participated in 24 NCAA sports. The conference has a history of national success in basketball throughout its history, while its shorter football program (1991 to 2013), created by inviting one college and four other "association members" (only their football program) to the conference, produced two national championships.
In basketball, the Big East teams made 18 Final Four appearances and won seven NCAA Championships (UConn with three, Villanova, Georgetown, Syracuse, and Louisville with one each). Of the full members of Big East, all except South Florida attend the Final Four, most of the conferences, though Marquette, DePaul, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh do all their journeys before joining Big East. In 2011, Big East set a record for most teams sent to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship with one conference with eleven of their sixteen qualifying teams.
In football, Big East entered the competition as a conference in 1991, after inviting five football colleges to become a Big East member, joining three teams from Big East whose soccer teams compete as independent Division I (Boston College, Pittsburgh and Syracuse) for forming the new Division I soccer league. This league force generated the Big East auto berth in the Bowl Championship Series, when the series was made in 1998. The Big East won two national soccer championships, both by the University of Miami. Between 2005 and 2012, four more successful football schools left Big East for another conference, initiating a process that led to a complete rearrangement of the Big East in 2013.
On July 1, 2013, non-soccer playing schools (also known collectively as secular Catholic 7 ) formed a non-football playing conference that retained the name of the Great Eastern Conference. The remaining six football members, three of whom just joined the Big East in 2005 when the previous exodus began, joined four schools from another conference to become the American Athletic Conference (The American), which is the Big East law of successors. The Americans maintain the Big East football structure and inherit a single automatic bed in the Bowl Championship Series. However, both conferences claimed 1979 as the date of their establishment, and the same history until 2013.
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History
Establishment: Initial years
The Big East, often referred to as the Big East Classic, was founded in 1979 after the requirements of the new NCAA basketball schedule led to the athletic director of the independent school Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse to discuss the creation of a conference centered in the Northeast. Other schools invited were Seton Hall, Connecticut, Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College, with Rutgers and Holy Cross refusing to join. Villanova joined a year later in 1980 and Pittsburgh joined in 1982. Prior to the formation of the conference, many of these schools participated in the ECAC Men's Basketball Tournament to receive an automatic bid for the NCAA I Men's Basketball Championship Division.
In 1982, Penn State applied for membership, but was rejected, with only five schools in support (Penn State needed six of eight). It has long been rumored that Syracuse voted decisively against Penn State, but Mike Tranghese insisted that this was not the case and that Syracuse had, in fact, opted for Penn State's inclusion. Penn State will overshadow the conference during a future rearrangement round because Nittany Lions has the potential to support the conference once the soccer members start joining. Following a decision by Georgetown, St. John's and Pennsylvania schoolmates Villanova voted against Penn State's confession, Big Ten's administrator and future commissioner Big East Mike Tranghese said the conference would "regret the day" they rejected Nittany Lions.
Football expansion
About a decade after the start of the conference, Big East members decided to become major football conferences and thus added five schools including Rutgers, Miami, Temple, Virginia Tech and West Virginia - though only Miami would offer full membership of all sports immediately. The first Big East football season was launched in 1991. West Virginia and Rutgers were offered entry into the Big East as full members started in the 1995-96 academic year, and Notre Dame, committed to football independence, was offered an effective non-football membership in the same year. Virginia Tech will be forced to wait until 2000-01 for full acceptance, and Temple remains a ball-only member until 2004, when elected out of the conference due to poor attendance numbers, lack of playing success, and inadequate facilities.
Fluctuations and alignment
The unusual structure of the Great East, with the schools of "football" and "non-soccer", led to instability in the conference. In 2003, ongoing press reports of tensions between football schools and basketball-only schools eventually exploded into a month-long public attraction between the Great East and the Atlantic Coast Conference over several Big East members. The end result was three major Eastern schools - Virginia Tech, Miami and Boston College - moved to ACC, while five schools moved to the Big East from the USA - Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Marquette and DePaul Conference.
The addition of three football schools, along with non-football members Big East Connecticut move to the Big East football conference, ensuring that the league will keep the minimum eight teams necessary to maintain its BCS offer. In addition, two traditional basketball teams, DePaul and Marquette, were added to get the Chicago and Milwaukee television markets and help the solid basketball status of the conference.
Meanwhile, Loyola University Maryland (later Loyola College in Maryland) also joined Big East as an associate member in lacrosse women for the 2005-06 academic year.
Subsequent instability
In 2010, Texas Christian University accepted an invitation to join the conference as an all-sporting member that begins in the academic year 2012-13. The Great Eastern schools compete in the First Division. Most football schools play in Division I FBS, while Georgetown and Villanova have Division I FCS (formerly I-AA) football programs. Georgetown football competes in the Patriot League. Villanova has competed in the Colonial Athletics Association football conference since 1988, since then as a completely separate conference known as the Yankee Conference, which joined the 10th Atlantic Conference in 1997, then in 2007 the CAA took over the management of A Conference soccer -10 (which occurred after Northeastern University joined the CAA in 2005, giving them six football members needed to start sponsoring football, which was eventually canceled by Northeastern after 2009). In September 2010, behind a reorganization of the Division I that affected a number of conferences across the country, Big East asked Villanova to consider becoming a member of football. The school once considered the offer, which required the school to substantially expand its football budget, and expand its stadium to meet FBS requirements or find another suitable place in the Philadelphia area. Villanova presented plans to Big East soccer members on April 10, 2011, including the use of PPL Park as a soccer stadium, but the league refused to schedule a vote to offer membership over Pittsburgh, West Virginia, and Rutgers objections. plan. On September 17, 2011 Syracuse, a charter member of the conference, and Pittsburgh announced that they would leave the Great East for the Atlantic Coast Conference. Both schools were originally intended to fulfill their commitment to wait for 27 months. TCU also reversed its decision and accepted an invitation from the Big 12 Conference to move there.
On October 28, 2011 was announced by the Big 12 Conference that West Virginia accepted his invitation to join, with membership starting in 2012. The timeline was challenged by Big East, and countersuits were launched by schools and conferences. Finally, the settlement was achieved with the allowed departure of West Virginia for 2012 in exchange for substantial compensation. Syracuse and Pittsburgh then used the approval of the Big East to West Virginia's departure to challenge the validity of their own commitments, and the Great East agreed to a settlement with both schools in July 2012 to allow their departure for the academic year 2013.
In December, after the regular season of 2011 football finished announcements made that Boise State University and San Diego State University, both from the Western Conference Mountain, will join the Big East in football only; and that members of the University of Central Florida, Southern Methodist University, and University of Houston Universities will join in all sports for the academic year 2013.
On January 24, 2012, the Midshipmen Navy accepted an invitation to join Big East for new football starting in 2015.
On February 9, 2012, Big East invited the University of Memphis to join as a full member in all sports to start playing in 2013.
On March 7, 2012, it was announced that Temple University would return to the conference for football in the 2012 season, filling the void left by West Virginia. Temple will join for all sports in 2013. The temple basket will move from Conference 10 Atlantic, where they have become a lasting powerhouse.
On August 29, 2012, Loyola and the Patriot League announced that all Loyola athletics teams, including the Big East school team in lacrosse women, will join the conference on 1 July 2013.
On September 12, 2012, Notre Dame announced it will follow Pittsburgh and Syracuse to ACC, joining the league in all sports except football. Notre Dame and Big East reached an agreement on March 13, 2013; the exit takes place July 1, 2013.
On November 20, 2012, Rutgers announced it would leave Big East to join the Big Ten Conference as a full member, effective with the start of the 2014-15 school year. Rutgers' announcement came one day after the University of Maryland left the ACC to join the Big Ten. One week later, on November 27th, Tulane University accepted the Big East invitation to join as an all-sport member. East Carolina University's football program also joins the Big East in 2014; the two previous schools with the USA Conference. The following day the ACC decided to invite Louisville to join in 2014, making them the seventh school since 2004 to leave the Great East in support of the ACC. On 27 March 2013, East Carolina's future membership in the renamed conference was officially upgraded to all sports membership.
Conference sharing
New Big East
Less than two weeks after Louisville announced his departure for the ACC, several media reports indicated that the remaining seven remaining non-FBS schools, all Catholic institutions, were considering mass exits from the conference. On December 13, it is likely that non-FBS schools will actually leave to form a new conference, and on December 15, seven schools (soon to be called <7> Catholics 7 by the media) made their official departure, effective with school year 2015-16. Many details are still to be worked out, with one big problem is whether the name "Big East" will remain at FBS school.
On December 31, Boise State announced that it had decided to stay at the Mountain West conference, leaving Big East, like TCU, without ever playing a game in it. With Boise State living in Mountain West, it is noted that the State of San Diego will indeed try to rejoin Mount West as well. On January 16, 2013, reports emerged that SDSU was indeed going to live on the West Mountain. The rumors about MWC saw potentially adding Houston and SMU as members of soccer 13 and 14, both of which stated they would join the Big East in 2013, continue to circulate as well.
In February 2013, media reports indicated that Catholic 7 will depart in July 2013, two years earlier than originally planned. On March 5, the Associated Press reported tentative details of the financial agreement: Instead of selling Big East names and contracts with Madison Square Garden (MSG) to host men's basketball tournaments to Catholic 7, and $ 10 million, the football school will receive $ 100 million from a pool of $ 110 million that has accumulated from entrance fees, outgoing fees, and results gained from appearances in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. On April 3, the football schools, which retain the old structure of Big East and their automatic BCS offer, announced that they will be operating as an American Athletic Conference starting July 1st.
Timeline membership
Full member Full member (non-football) Assoc. members (only for football) Assoc. member (sports list) Other Conference American Athletic Conference
Maps Big East Conference (1979-2013)
Commissioner
Mike Tranghese retired at the end of the 2008-09 academic year, which he announced in June 2008, and was replaced by former senior commissioner John Marinatto. On May 7, 2012, John Marinatto resigned as commissioner. He was succeeded by Joseph Bailey for a while. Mike Aresco, Executive Vice President of CBS Sports' Programming, was named Commissioner of The Big East on August 14, 2012. After the old Big East changed its name to the American Athletic Conference, Aresco continued to be a commissioner. The new Big East named Val Ackerman as commissioner on July 1, but considers him his fifth commissioner.
Member institutions
At the beginning of the academic year 2012-13, there are 15 full members and two associate members from the Great East. On July 1, 2013, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and Notre Dame joined the ACC. DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, and Villanova joined the new Big East. Cincinnati, Connecticut, South Florida, and Temple remained in the old Big East, which changed its name to the American Athletic Conference.
Full member
Complete member except in football
Associate Member
Previous member
Former full members
* Virginia Tech is an associate member of the Big East 1991-2000. ** West Virginia was an associate member of Big East 1991-1995. Note: Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Louisville leave Big East and join the ACC. Syracuse and Pittsburgh leave the Great East on 1 July 2013; each paid Big East $ 7.5 million to depart on that date. Notre Dame joins ACC on July 1, 2013, while Louisville leaves for ACC on July 1, 2014. Rutgers leaves for the Big Ten on July 1, 2014.
Former member of association
Rutgers and West Virginia joined Big East as full members in 1995. Virginia Tech joined Big East as a full members in 2000. Temple was removed from the Great East as a ball-only member after the 2004 football season. Temple was invited to Big East as a full member in March 2012. , with football back in July 2012 and all other sports joining in July 2013.
Invited members
Here is a list of institutions that plan to join the Great Eastern Conference but then reneged.
* TCU will join Big East as a full member in 2012 before accepting an invitation to the Big 12. ** Boise State and San Diego is set to join Big East as an associate member for football only in 2013 before deciding to stay on the Western Mountain.
Sports
Great championship competition sponsored by the East East Conference in eleven NCAA sports comprising 11 men and thirteen women. Temple is an Associate member for football, and Loyola, Maryland is an Associate member for lacrosse ladies.
NOTE: Under the NCAA rules that reflect the large number of male scholarship participants in football and try to address the issue of gender equality (see also Title IX), any playing footballing institution is required to provide two more sports university women. than men.
Men's basket
The Big East was founded by seven charter schools in 1979 (Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, Syracuse, Seton Hall, Connecticut, and Boston College). Villanova joined the following year, followed by Pittsburgh in 1982.
Georgetown, led by senior Sleepy Floyd and new student Patrick Ewing, made the NCAA Championship Game in 1982. Just two years later, in 1984, Georgetown won the first NCAA Big East basketball championship with a victory over the University of Houston.
The following year the three big East teams (Villanova, St. John's and Georgetown) all advanced to the Final Four, culminating in Villanova's amazing championship victory over the well-liked Hoyas Georgetown. The success of the conference in 1985 was almost duplicated in 1987, when the surprising Syracuse and Providence both made the Final Four, followed by the disappearance of the Little Persons at Indiana University in the final of the tournament. Two years later, Seton Hall Pirates also boarded the NCAA Championship Game, but was defeated by Michigan Wolverines for a very long time.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, and Syracuse are the main forces in the conference. UConn became a force in 1990 with # 1 seed and a trip to Elite 8 before being defeated by Duke. Georgetown is led by John Thompson Jr., who was named three times as Coach of the Conference of the Year. They won five regular conference championships and six Great East Tournaments to go with their 1984 national titles. Villanova was trained by Rollie Massimino, who led them to the 1985 NCAA Championship in a 66-64 historic win over No. 1. 1 Georgetown where Ed Pinckney's forward was crowned the Most Extraordinary Player. In their first 11 seasons in the Great East, Villanova made 9 trips to the NCAA Tournament including advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight in 1982, 1983 and 1988 as well as their 1985 Championship season. Massimino trained for 19 seasons at Villanova, collecting a record of 357-241 (.596). In the NCAA Tournament, Massimino has an incredible 20-10 record (.667). St. John's was led by Lou Carnesecca, who won the National Coach of the Year award in 1983 and 1985. He led Redmen (now Red Storm) to the 1985 Final Four, and made a post-season appearance in each of the 24 years at the helm. Syracuse has been led by Jim Boeheim alumni since the 1977 season. He was named Coach of the Conference of the Year in 1984 and 1991. During this period, the Orangemen won five regular conference championships, three Great East Tournaments, and was invited to the NCAA Tournament every year but two 1981 and 1982), lost the 1987 National Final to Indiana. Syracuse finally won its first national title in 2003, led by Boeheim coach and freshman Carmelo Anthony.
Starting with their first Big East championship in 1990, Connecticut has become a superior force in the Great East. Over the past two decades, UConn has done a lot of things in the NCAA tournaments, playing on Elite 8 nine times and making four appearances in the Final Four. The Hall of Fame program coach Jim Calhoun, led by stars like Ray Allen, Richard "Rip" Hamilton, Caron Butler, Emeka Okafor and Kemba Walker, averaged almost 26 wins per year over that span, winning many regular seasons Big East and championship tournaments, and claimed the National Championships in 1999, 2004 and 2011.
The conference earned eight teams which later became the record in the NCAA Putra Tournament in 2006 and again equaled their own record in 2008 and 2010. At the beginning of the 2008-2009 season, many sports analysts predicted that the conference would surpass the record by sending 10 teams to the Tournament NCAA Basketball Division I 2009. When the parenthesis was revealed, seven succeeded, but three of them (Louisville, Pittsburgh and Connecticut) obtained the No. 1 seed. 1, and Louisville get the main seed as a whole. Connecticut and Villanova (seeded No. 3) both reached the Final Four. At the end of the 2010-11 season, Big East beat his record, sending 11 teams to the 2011 Division I NCAA Boys Basketball Tournament.
The conference features a number of former players currently playing at the National Basketball Association with some of the latest being Ray Allen, Caron Butler, Carmelo Anthony, Ryan Gomes, Austin Croshere, Richard "Rip" Hamilton, Ben Gordon, Emeka Okafor, Troy Murphy, Judge Warren, Quincy Douby, Dante Cunningham, Randy Foye, Kyle Lowry, Rudy Gay, Matt Carroll, Jake Voskuhl, Etan Thomas, Samuel Dalembert, Charlie Villanueva, Dontà ©  © Greene, Ron Artest, Chris Quinn, Jason Hart, Tim Thomas, Aaron Gray, Daniel Ochefu, Sam Young, DeJuan Blair, Wilson Chandler, Jeff Green, Joe Alexander, Marcus Williams, Jonny Flynn, Terrence Williams, Earl Clark, Roy Hibbert, Wesley Johnson, Wesley Matthews, Lazar Hayward, Jimmy Butler, Steve Novak, Jae Crowder, Maalik Wayns, and Darius Johnson-Odom.
Female Women's basket
Big East women's basketball is almost as powerful as the men's program at the conference. Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma has led his women's team to eight national championships (including four between 2000 and 2004) and four unbeaten seasons (1995, 2002, 2009, and 2010). Connecticut set the longest winning streak in all the women's NCAA basketball history with 70 consecutive wins that stretched from 2001 to 2003. This streak ended in 2003 when Villanova beat Connecticut for the title of the Great East tournament, in what was considered to be the biggest distraction in basketball woman (Villanova will continue to reach the Elite Eight that year). The Huskies broke their own record with consecutive unbeaten championship seasons in 2009 and 2010, and stretched their streak to 90, a Division I record for both genders, before losing to Stanford during the 2010-11 season.
Due to the strength of the Connecticut program, the 2001 and 2011 national champions and 2012 Notre Dame national runner-up, and the 2007 Rutgers national runner-up, Big East has emerged as one of the main strengths in women's college basketball. In 2009 two Big East schools met in a national championship game (Connecticut and Louisville) and a South Florida women's basketball team beat Kansas to become WNIT champions. In 2011, UConn and Notre Dame both made the Final Four; Ireland beat Huskies in their semi-final but lost to Texas A & amp; M at the NCAA Championship Game. Ireland returns to a championship match in 2012, losing there to an unbeaten Baylor.
Last season under the original conference structure, 2012-13, saw three Big East teams make Final Four - UConn, Notre Dame, and Louisville. UConn first beat Notre Dame in the semi-finals and, in a rematch of the 2009 final, beat Louisville for the national title.
Football
Big East started soccer during the 1991-1992 season with the addition of Miami and was a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series.
In the early years of the league the University of Miami dominated, winning nine of the first thirteen championships and two national championships in 1991 and 2001. Virginia Tech also did well, won the conference in 1995, 1996, and in 1999, when they also obtain a national 2nd Rank. West Virginia and Syracuse are the only other teams to win a conference title during the league's original alignment.
The conference underwent a major reconstruction when Miami and Virginia Tech left for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004, followed by Boston College in 2005. Initially, Syracuse University was in place to make the leap instead of Virginia Tech, but in 2003, Virginia governor Mark Warner putting pressure on the ACC (by vote from the University of Virginia) to ensure that Virginia Tech was not left out of the conference expansion. Syracuse, then, was not invited to the ACC and left to remain in the Great East. Temple has joined Big East for football only in 1991, but it is difficult to compete with other league teams and attract a very bad presence for his game. The conference was forced to repel the owl voluntarily in 2004 (after playing two seasons as an independent, Temple joined the MAC in 2007).
The universities that replace them are Louisville, South Florida and Cincinnati from Conference USA. The League also invited the University of Connecticut to play football a year earlier than planned. At around this time, BCS announced that it would adjust the automatic bid given to six founding conferences based on results from 2004 to 2007, and that there would be five, six or seven such offers starting in 2008. The obvious conclusion is that soon Big East will lose its offer.
The fortunes of the conference increased in 2005. Three new teams from Conference USA began playing that year, recovering the league to eight teams. West Virginia won the conference title and Sugar Bowl, and finished 11-1 and finished No. 5 in an AP poll. Newcomer Louisville is also ranked Top 20.
In 2006, West Virginia, Louisville, and Rutgers all entered November unbeaten. However, they did not stay that way, because in an exciting trio of games over the next month, Louisville defeated West Virginia 44-34, Rutgers beat Louisville 28-25, and West Virginia beat Rutgers 41-39 in three overtimes. Louisville won the conference title in the end. In the bowl action, Big East won 5-0, including a victory of Orange Bowl for Louisville over Wake Forest and a victory by West Virginia over Georgia Tech at Gator Bowl. Louisville will finish the 6th season, West Virginia 10, and Rutgers 12th in the final AP Poll.
In 2007, USF rose to 2nd in BCS rankings. They lost the next three games, however, to get out of the rankings. They finally finished the 21st season in the final BCS election. The Connecticut Huskies, getting as high as No. 13, and West Virginia remained above 25. Cincinnati also rose as high as No. 1. 15 in the rankings finally finished the season with 10 wins and 17th rankings. Connecticut lost the next game and dropped substantially in the rankings, eventually finishing 25. On the last day of the season, Pittsburgh upset no. 2 WVU 13-9 in the 100th edition of Brawl Backyard to give Huskies a share of the conference championship, while WVU is halted at the doorstep of the BCS National Championship Match. In a bowl game, WVU disappointed Big 12 Champion Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, despite losing their highly-praised coach Rich Rodriguez to Michigan less than a month before the game. West Virginia finished the season ranked 6th and Cincinnati was ranked # 17.
The 2009 season saw Cincinnati finish an unbeaten regular season at 12-0 and climb to No. 3 in the final BCS standings. After completing his fourth-quarter comeback to beat Pittsburgh on the final day of the season, the Bearcats narrowly missed a place in the BCS national championship game, because No. 2 Texas pulled out a second win in the Big 12 Championship Game. The Bearcats will go on to lose the Sugar Bowl to No. 5 Florida and finish 12-1 years.
On September 18, 2011, Pittsburgh and Syracuse were accepted as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference even though the exact date of the move is uncertain. ("ESPN".) There are also rumors that UConn also wants to leave the Great East and join Pittsburgh and Syracuse in the ACC. ("ESPN".) On October 28, 2011, West Virginia announced it would leave Big East to join Big 12 in 2012. TCU, who has accepted an invitation to join Big East in the 2012 season, recalled his acceptance and instead received invitation to join Big 12.
In 2011, in response to major changes in the college football conference landscape, the conference added five new members to help offset the loss of Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and West Virginia. On December 7, 2011, the conference officially added University of Houston, Southern Methodist University, and University of Central Florida as an all-sport member. In addition, Boise State and San Diego State of the West Mountain Conference were added as football-only members, but Boise State finally decided not to join the Big East, allowing San Diego State to withdraw without penalty.
Champions
* No official championship was awarded in 1991 and 1992, as the conference did not start full league games until 1993.
** Louisville accepts BCS bids as they are the highest ranked team in the final BCS poll.
BCS Bowl Games
The Big East has an 8-7 record in a BCS bowl match, including a 1-2 record in a National Championship game.
- East Big Team in bold
Bowl Games
- Note about bowl selection
- The BC East Big East representative is not tied directly to a particular BCS Bowl. It was chosen to bowl in the same way as the big team. BCS can choose a second team to play in other BCS bowl games. Beginning in 2008, Big East champions played between the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and the Fiesta Bowl (in that order).
- Notre Dame is eligible to be chosen as a substitute for the Big East team for the Russell Athletic Bowl once over a four-year period. In a separate rule specific only to Notre Dame that does not affect the BCS Big East representative, Notre Dame is eligible to receive BCS auto places if they are completed in 8 BCS rankings.
Lacrosse
Men
In 2010, Big East created a men's lacrosse league with Georgetown, Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, St. John's, Syracuse, and Villanova participated. The men's Lacrosse is the 24th sport sponsored by the Big East Conference and is a sport of 11 men. Both teams play six regular round-robin matches. No tournament championship lacrosse big east men in 2010 and 2011. In contrast, the Big East champion is determined by the percentage of match winners at the end of the regular season. This winner receives an automatic league offer to the Lacrosse Division I NCAA 16 Team Division. The first major East championship tournament was played from the 2012 season. Syracuse dominated the sport until it switched to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
From a large lacrosse school of Eastern men in the 2013 season, the last season under the original conference structure:
- Georgetown, Providence, St. John's, and Villanova are members of the new Big East. Marquette, who announced plans to add sport for the 2014 season, was also in a new conference.
- Notre Dame and Syracuse join the ACC, who has sponsored this sport.
- Rutgers spent the 2014 season at The American before joining the Big Ten. Because Rutgers is the only current full member or future of an American sponsoring a men's lacrosse, it will remain in Big East lacrosse until the Big Ten starts a lacrosse competition in the 2015 season.
Female
The Big East has been sponsoring lacrosse women since the 2000-01 season. Georgetown and former Syracuse members have dominated, winning ten championships (including one shared) in the 2012-13 season.
Cross country
The Great Eastern Conference first crowned the male cross country champion in 1979 and the cross country champion in 1982. During the original Big East history, six different women's teams won the Great East Championships: Boston College, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Providence, Villanova and Virginia West. On the male side, six teams won the Great East Championships as well: Georgetown, Louisville, Notre Dame, Providence, Syracuse, and Villanova.
Both in the 2009 and 2010 seasons, the Villanova women captured the NCAA Cross Country Team Championship as they have dominated the Great East for years with various Conference Degrees. Led by Sheila Reid, a junior from Pasar Baru, Ontario. who won individual champions in 2010, the top-ranked Wildcats snatched their second straight NCAA Division I cross-country championship. Reid ran past Georgetown's Emily Infeld and Oregon's Jordan Hasay in the 200-meter final to win an individual title. It was the NCAA NCAA NCAA Championships overall Ninth Championship overall at Cross Country. The Wildcats captured six NCAA Championships in a row from 1989 to 1994 and also won titles again in 1998, 2009 and 2010.
Rivalry
Champions of the conference by year
Receive a BCS (or Alliance Bowl) conference venue
Facilities
Schools that move to the Big East Conference (2013-present) are highlighted in gray. Those who moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference were pink. Those remaining at the American Athletic Conference renamed for 2013-14 are white.
Note:
1 For certain high profile home games, Cincinnati uses Paul Brown Stadium Cincinnati Bengals. In 2010, Cincinnati hosted the University of Oklahoma at Paul Brown Stadium. In 2011, Cincinnati used the Paul Brown Stadium as an alternative home field for matches against Louisville and West Virginia.
2 The end of 2006, Rutgers added about 3,000 temporary end-zone seats remaining for the 2007 season (45,000 total). In 2008, Rutgers embarked on a stadium expansion project that is expected to increase capacity to more than 55,000 seats and add luxury seats and clubs. Premium seating is projected for the 2008 season and an additional 12,000-seat final zone is expected for the 2009 season. The stadium is also expected to receive the new name as part of a financing package depending on the sponsor's name.
3 People St. John's generally plays their Big East home schedule at Madison Square Garden and they schedule non-conference homes on campus at the Carnesecca Arena. In 2005-06, St. John's played only one non-conference match on MSG and one Big East game on campus.
4 For Syracuse basketball matches at Carrier Dome, the court is arranged at one end of the field and stands erected next to it. This makes Carrier Dome the largest place on campus for college basketball in the country.
5 For certain high profile home games, Villanova uses Wells Fargo Center, and previously used Spectrum. In 2005-06, Villanova played three home games at Wells Fargo Center and the rest on campus at The Pavilion. In 2006, Wells Fargo Center was also the first round spot for the NCAA Tournament. Under NCAA rules, a place is not considered a home court unless the school plays four or more regular season games there; this allowed Villanova to play his first two tournament matches at Wells Fargo Center (but Villanova is not considered the parent school for that sub-region - Atlantic Conference 10). This situation occurred again in 2009, with Villanova playing (and winning) her first two tournament matches at Wells Fargo Center.
See also
- Great Eastern Male Basketball Tournament
- The Great Eastern Women's Basketball Tournament
- Big East Baseball Tournament
References
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