Big East News Articles

Stefanie Dolson scored all 12 of her points in the first half to lead a balanced Connecticut offense, and the top-seeded Huskies routed Hartford 75-39 on Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament

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

Freshman point guard Shoni Schimmel directed a young-but-poised offense with 19 points Sunday, and the Cardinals marked their return to the NCAA tournament by beating Vanderbilt 81-62 in a first-round game.

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.

Georgetown guard Sugar Rodgers outscored Princeton in the first half, and the Hoyas rolled to a 65-49 victory Sunday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament

Skylar Diggins and Natalie Novosel scored 20 points apiece, and No. 2 seed Notre Dame held off 15th-seeded Utah 67-54 Saturday in a first-round NCAA tournament game

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

St. John's didn't need to bring its best offense for the NCAA tournament opener -- not with the way its defense dominated the second half.

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.

Marquette's seniors pledged to work hard enough to get to the NCAA tournament. Thanks to a tough shot by senior Tatiyiana McMorris, the Golden Eagles have advanced to the second round

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.

Felicia Chester had 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Katherine Harry added 10 points and a couple big second-half buckets to help DePaul defeat Navy 56-43 on Saturday in the NCAA tournament

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

Darius Johnson-Odum scored 19 points, Jimmy Butler had 15 and Marquette squashed Xavier's bid for a fourth straight round of 16 appearance with a 66-55 win on Friday night.

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

Dwight Hardy had 26 points to lead the Red Storm.