Big East News Articles

Defending BIG EAST Champion Louisville earned 454 points for a No. 19 ranking in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Preseason Poll.

 For only the second time, all four teams at the Women's College Cup had been at the final four the year before. Notre Dame recovered from a 6-0 loss to North Carolina early in the season and returned to the College Cup. For his work in turning around with the Irish, Randy Waldrum is the 2009 Soccer America Women's Coach of the Year.

- Louisville's Arslanbekova tabbed Freshman of the Year -

Eighteen BIG EAST women's soccer student-athletes have been honored by the National Soccer Coaches Association as Northeast Team All-Region selections.

BIG EAST Weekly Fall Olympic Sports Report

University of Connecticut senior forward Loren Sherer (Essex, England) has been named as one of four finalists for the 2009-10 Honda Award for Field Hockey, which recognizes the National Player of the Year.

Louisville, Notre Dame and Cincinnati Set for NCAA Volleyball Championship

Villanova head Gina Procaccio earned women's Division I National Cross Country Coach of the Year honors as announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA)

Seven BIG EAST field hockey student-athletes earned Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-America honors following the conclusion of the 2009 season. Syracuse led conference teams with three honorees while Connecticut boasted a BIG EAST-best two First Team members. Providence and Louisville each had one student-athlete recognized.

The Villanova University women's cross country team won the 2009 NCAA National Championship Monday in Terre Haute, Ind.

The Villanova University women's cross country team won the 2009 NCAA National Championship Monday in Terre Haute, Ind. The team championship is the eighth title for the Wildcats, with the last team title coming in 1998.

No. 4 Louisville upsets No. 2 Cincinnati 3-1 in Championship match.

After a three-year hiatus, the BIG EAST Volleyball Championship returns to the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Ky., this weekend. The University of Louisville will serve as the host for the seven-game tournament which will feature the league's eight top-seeded teams. The first game will start at 10 a.m. on Friday and the championship match will be held on Sunday. The 3 p.m. ET final will be shown on ESPNU. The winner will earn the BIG EAST's automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.

Connecticut senior forward Loren Sherer was named Mideast Region Player of the Year by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association following a record-breaking season. Along with Sherer, 17 other BIG EAST field hockey student-athletes earned 2009 Kookaburra/NFHCA Division I All-Region honors, including 11 receiving first team recognition.

The eighth-ranked Syracuse University field hockey team had its season come to an end this afternoon in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Class of '52 Stadium on the campus of Princeton University. The fourth-ranked Princeton Tigers outscored Syracuse 5-0 in the second half to defeat Syracuse 7-3 and to advance to the Final Four. The Orange finishes 2009 with an 18-4 record, while the Tigers improved to 16-2.

St. John's captured the 2009 BIG EAST Men's Soccer Championship title in a penalty kick shootout at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on the campus of West Virginia University on Nov. 15. The Red Storm played Notre Dame to a scoreless tie through two overtime periods, and grabbed the title in penalty kicks

The University of Connecticut field hockey team tied its highest ranking of the season as they earned the No. 5 spot in the final installment of the Kookaburra/NFHCA Division I Field Hockey Coaches Poll.

 For the sixth time in BIG EAST history, multiple teams have earned invites to the NCAA Field Hockey Championship. 

Seven BIG EAST women's soccer teams will participate in the 2009 NCAA Championship, including first-time entrant St. John's. It is the second time in league history seven BIG EAST teams have been selected to the field, a feat that also was accomplished in 2006. The total was one shy of the league record of eight berths which came in 2001.