The Big East Tournament has tipped off in Madison Square Garden, as the bottom half of the 16-team conference takes the floor in all-day action. TheSportsNotebook looks back on the season that was in America’s biggest conference, hands out some individual hardware and looks ahead to the coming five days at MSG. We can break the Big East down into seven groups. Here’s a brief summation…
Syracuse is setting the tone in the Big East and the nation as a whole with their undefeated season, but in the rugged Big East there are six solid teams giving the Orange chase. Today the Notebook breaks down the “Secondary Six” as we’ll call them. The group is comprised of Cincinnati & UConn (who […]
Last year the Big East dominated college basketball conversation all season and put 11 teams in the NCAA Tournament. Ten of them flamed out, but the fact UConn won the national title saved the conference’s reputation and it’s again got one team on top of the polls (Syracuse), another in the top five (Louisville) and […]