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Georgetown-St. John's Preview

Georgetown-St. John's Preview

When Jim Calhoun stated his UConn Huskies should be in the nation's top basketball conference, the implication was that he was referring to the ACC or the Big East. But Joe Lunardi shows that the nine-team Big 12 may be the nation's best.

Blog | Conversation | September 22, 2011

According to Joe Lunardi, the proposed Texas A&M-SEC move may be the latest in a chain of events that leads to the elimination of non-Division I football schools from BCS conferences and radically alters the format of the NCAA tournament.

Blog | Conversation | September 08, 2011

Georgetown-St. John's Preview

Georgetown-St. John's Preview

Junior point guard Tre Campbell (Washington, D.C./St. John's College High) verbally committed to Georgetown on Wednesday, ESPN.com has confirmed. The 6-foot-2, three-star prospect chose the Hoyas over multiple offers, including Charlotte, George M...

Butler, Creighton and Xavier are moving to the new Big East.

The new Big East will play with 10 members in 2013-14, sources told ESPN.com Friday night. The 10 members will be DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's and Villanova, Xavier, Butler and Creighton.

The presidents of the Big East's seven Catholic schools met with their athletic directors in New York on Wednesday and will announce new membership for the new Big East within 7-10 days, according to a source.

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

John Thompson, the first of the Georgetown coaches with that name, was sitting on a raised area just feet from where John Thompson III was accepting the trophy for Big East Coach of the Year.

Big East tournament preview: End of an era for the conference.

Notre Dame guard Skylar Diggins, Connecticut forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and South Florida guard Andrea Smith are the unanimous selections to the All-Big East team.

We may not have to call them the Catholic 7 for much longer. Providence, Georgetown, Villanova, DePaul, Seton Hall, St. John's and Marquette will hang on to the Big East name going forward, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy, Andy Katz and Dana O'Nei...

The Catholic 7 schools are expected to start their own league next season and will keep the Big East Conference name, sources told ESPN. Joining the Catholic 7 schools in the new "Big East" this fall will be Xavier and Butler, sources said.