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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.

Ted Sevransky gives his against-the-spread picks for Saturday's biggest college hoops games and a couple of under-the-radar matchups.

Story | Conversation | February 22, 2013

Talib Zanna scored 15 points, and Pittsburgh rediscovered its shooting touch Tuesday night, hitting 55 percent from the field in a 73-45 win over No. 19 Georgetown.

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

John Gasaway writes that in what is likely its last season as an elite college basketball conference, the Big East is pushing the Big Ten for the honor of being the nation's best league. He takes a look at the Big East's top Final Four contenders.

Story | Conversation | December 12, 2012

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...

Senior Henry Sims and freshman Otto Porter each scored 20 points to lead Georgetown (No. 14 ESPN/USA Today, No. 13 AP) to a 64-52 victory over Pittsburgh on Wednesday in the second round of the Big East tournament.

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

Nasir Robinson scored 23 points and made all nine of his field goal attempts to lead Pittsburgh past Georgetown (No. 10 ESPN/USA Today, No. 9 AP) 72-60 on Saturday.

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

In King's Court, Jason King takes a look at who's in a zone, who's in a funk and everything else that is making news in college basketball.

Jason King with all the latest from the past week of action in college basketball.

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.