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Dave Gavitt's vision -- a Northeast alliance of basketball schools called the Big East -- came to life at Madison Square Garden.

With the conference season set to get under way, Dana O'Neil takes a look at what's in store for the Big East.

It used to be an Amtrak pass was all you needed to travel the Big East. Now you need a charter jet share. The comings and goings of basketball teams are a tangled mess for a conference in transition.

Continuing Insider's series, Jay Bilas ranks the 2012-13 Big East, with the Louisville Cardinals at No. 1.

Story | Conversation | July 23, 2012

The Big East will send out its annual straw poll to its coaches to get their preseason predictions about the strength of the league's teams to help put together next season's conference schedule. The league office said Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and Pit...

As the Big East meets at Madison Square Garden for the 30th year, a feeling of change and uncertainty is in the air.

Pitt is skidding, the Hoyas are soaring, the Friars are ahead of schedule. It seems some preconceptions for the Big East are proving incorrect this season. Fran Fraschilla resets the board and provides his take on how each of the 16 teams' tales will end.

Blog | Conversation | December 28, 2011

College basketball is essentially slinking around to the side door these days as football programs from Texas to Notre Dame to Syracuse look around with their hands out to make the best deal.

On the same weekend its founder passed away, the Big East as we know it forever changed with the sudden defections of Syracuse and Pitt -- with more likely to come. Dave Gavitt would've been embarrassed by the hypocrisy and greed of it all.

Mark Titus -- you may know him from Club Trillion -- debuts on ESPN Insider and offers fans an inside view of the Big East conference: Names you don't know but should, best student sections and cheerleaders, and much more.

Story | Conversation | October 20, 2010

Mike Hume looks at five key questions for the Big East this season, including how good the Pitt Panthers are and whether the foul line will help or hurt Villanova.

Story | Conversation | October 20, 2010

On a day when the mighty Big East went 1-3, a pair of league powers were humbled in Providence by teams from the NEC and the MAC. One squeaked by and another was run out of the gym. How did it happen?

In this age of college players leaving early, the Big East didn't see many defections. And that's bad news for coaches in the mega-league, which will boast four Final Four favorites and 10 squads with realistic NCAA tournament hopes, writes Andy Katz.

Jessie Sapp scored 23 points and No. 9 Georgetown tied a Big East tournament record with 17 3-pointers, fending off a second-half comeback to beat Villanova 82-63 on Thursday in the second round.

There's no easy scheduling solution with a 16-team megaconference, but the move to an 18-game regular-season schedule has coaches worried about their postseason futures, writes Andy Glockner.

Roy Hibbert scored eight of his 14 points in Georgetown's opening 26-2 run, and the Hoyas held on for a 62-57 victory over ninth-seeded Villanova in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.