Big East News Articles

Walker chosen to first team after sparking Connecticut's run to the Final Four

Kemba Walker scored 20 points, freshman Jeremy Lamb added 19 and Connecticut earned its second Final Four berth in three years, beating Arizona 65-63 Saturday to win the West regional

Golden Eagles' season ends with 81-63 loss to Tar Heels in Newark

Huskies and Wildcats tip at 6:55 PM ET on CBS

Golden Eagles and Tar Heels tip tonight at 7:15pm on CBS

Kemba Walker scored 22 of his 36 points in another dynamic second-half performance, and Connecticut moved to the brink of its fourth trip to the Final Four with a 74-67 victory over San Diego State

Huskies and Aztecs tip at 7pm ET on CBS

Bernard James scored 14 points, Michael Snaer added 13 and Florida State showed there's more to its game than defense with a 71-57 upset of second-seeded Notre Dame

Darius Johnson-Odom's 3-pointer with 27 seconds left snapped a tie and gave Marquette a 66-62 win over Syracuse on Sunday night that put the Golden Eagles into the NCAA tournament's round of 16 for the first time in eight years

Notre Dame is deep, with the Big East player of the year and three others averaging in double figures

The 11th-seeded Golden Eagles beat the third-seeded Orange 76-70 on Jan. 29 and believes his team can do it again.

Kemba Walker scored 33 points and the supposedly powerful Big East finally advanced a team to the NCAA tournament's round of 16 on Saturday night when Connecticut beat conference foe Cincinnati 69-58.

Matt Howard made one free throw with 0.8 seconds left to cap a wild final sequence, and Butler added another amazing victory to its list of NCAA tournament upsets, eliminating top-seeded Pittsburgh 71-70 Saturday

The Big East is just too big and too good to fit into the usual tidy constraints of the NCAA tournament bracket. Comprising nearly one-sixth of the field -- 11 of the 68 teams -- it was impossible to adhere to the preferred norm of keeping teams from the same conference from beating up on each other until the Elite Eight.

Freshman Brandon Knight scored a career-high 30 points and Josh Harrellson delivered eight of his 15 during a pivotal stretch of the second half, helping fourth-seeded Kentucky beat No. 5 seed West Virginia 71-63 in the NCAA tournament Saturday.

fifth-seeded Mountaineers face fourth-seeded Wildcats at 12:15pm on CBS

Not even the return of point guard Chris Wright could help the sixth-seeded Hoyas, who were handed their worst loss in the NCAA tournament since a 24-point drubbing by top-seeded UMass in the 1996 East regional finals.

Orange will play BIG EAST rival Marquette Sunday

Luke Hancock hit a 3-pointer with 21 seconds left, capping George Mason's comeback and keeping the one-time March darlings playing with a 61-57 win over Villanova in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Hoyas battle Rams at approximately 9:50pm on TNT