Big East News Articles

Rutgers' Benjamin Forrest and Notre Dame's Allison Schroeder to receive $5,000 scholarships in recognition of outstanding leadership, academics, athletic performance and community service.

DePaul’s Matija Palinic took home two awards while Notre Dame’s Greg Andrews and Shannon Mathews, Marquette’s Gillian Hush and Rutgers’ Morgan Ivey also were honored.

Georgetown senior Rand Ravnaas was selected as the BIG EAST Baseball Player of the Week and Louisville’s junior Justin Amlung was named BIG EAST Baseball Pitcher of the Week.

No. 4 seed Notre Dame used nine different goal scorers in a 13-7 victory over Yale on Sunday evening at Arlotta Stadium in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship.

SU will play No. 5/5 North Carolina on Saturday, May 19 at 1 p.m. ET in the Carrier Dome.

With the win, Loyola will advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship to face No. 3 seed Maryland at noon on Saturday, May 19.

The University of Notre Dame claimed its ninth-straight BIG EAST Women’s Rowing Championship title Sunday on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.

The Notre Dame men’s tennis team suffered a 4-0 loss to No. 5 Ohio State in the second round of the NCAA Men’s Tennis Championship in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday.

Louisville, Notre Dame, Syracuse, USF and DePaul have been selected to participate in the 2012 NCAA Softball Championship, setting a conference record for most league teams chosen.

After Syracuse erased a four-goal second quarter deficit to tie the score at five, No. 3 Duke answered with five of the next six goals to eliminate the SU men’s lacrosse team in the opening round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament, 12-9 on Saturday at Koskinen Stadium.

The Irish end the season with a 13-5 record, a mark that is one of the best in school history.

Louisville sophomore Jordan Trimble sent the first pitch of the bottom of the eighth inning over the right field fence to earn a dramatic 4-3 walk-off victory over Notre Dame and give the Cardinals the 2012 BIG EAST Softball Championship title.

The Notre Dame women’s tennis team suffered a 4-2 loss to No. 13 Northwestern in the second round of the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship in Evanston, Ill., on Sunday.

The Notre Dame men’s tennis team opened its NCAA schedule on Saturday with a 4-3 victory over Vanderbilt on the campus of Ohio State University and the Notre Dame women fell 4-2 to Northwestern.

Eight BIG EAST schools will compete on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J., for the 2012 BIG EAST Rowing Championship on Sunday, May 13.

Junior catcher Amy Buntin tied a BIG EAST Championship record with five RBI in a game and freshman Jenna Simon tied the record with three runs scored as No. 2 Notre Dame rolls past No. 6 St. John’s 5-1 in the second semifinal of the 2012 BIG EAST Softball Championship at Melissa Cook Stadium on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

The Notre Dame women took down Hawaii 4-0 at Northwestern University and the Louisville men fell 4-2 to Indiana at the University of Kentucky.

Freshman Kayla Soles hit a two-out, two-RBI double to give No. 1 Louisville a 2-0 victory over No. 5 DePaul in the first semifinal of the 2012 BIG EAST Softball Championship at Melissa Cook Stadium on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

No. 6 seed St. John’s stunned the two-time defending champion No. 3 Syracuse 2-1 in the third game of the 2012 BIG EAST Softball Championship

Notre Dame’s senior Max Scodro, who led the Irish to their eighth BIG EAST title, has been unanimously chosen by the league’s 12 head coaches as the 2012 BIG EAST Men’s Golf Player of the Year.