Big East News Articles

Wagner and Cutura named Players of the Week.

Social Media was buzzing about the Grant brothers, as well as Notre Dame's uniforms last night. Check out all the talk surrounding the #Orangenation vs #GoIrish Monday Matchup.

Mackenzie Fields earns her first BIG EAST honor in 2012-13.

Blondell and Worrell named Athletes of the Week.

Schimmel averaged 26.5 points per game in a pair of conference wins for Louisville.

The BIG EAST Conference has named Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier and Notre Dame forward Cameron Biedscheid the winners of the league's weekly men's basketball honors for the week ending Feb. 3

USF surged to a 78-60 win at Pittsburgh. It was the Bulls’ first win at Pitt since joining the league in 2005-06.

Providence and Villanova meet for the second time this season at noon ET.

USF travels to Pittsburgh Sunday for a 1 p.m. ET contest.

The Championship, returning to Hartford, Conn., for the 10th-straight year, will be played at the XL Center March 8-12, 2013.

A quick look around the league at women's basketball.

St. John’s sophomore Harin Lee earned BIG EAST Women’s Golf Player of the Week honors after finishing sixth at the Edwin Watts Kiawah Island Classic in Kiawah Island, S.C.

Single-session tickets for the 2012 BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Championship are on sale, Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. ET.

Notre Dame junior Skylar Diggins earned the final BIG EAST Player of the Week honor on Feb. 28.

Notre Dame earned its first outright regular-season title and the No. 1 seed in the 2012 BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by American Eagle Outfitters, to be held March 2-6 at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. In its fourth year of the 16-team tournament format, the teams will battle in 15 games over five days for the Conference’s automatic NCAA Championship

Louisville freshman Sebastian Stiefelmeyer was named BIG EAST Men’s Tennis Player of the Week and USF junior Loreto Alonso Martinez was named BIG EAST Women’s Tennis Player of the Week on Feb. 28.

Natalie Novosel scored 21 points and Skylar Diggins added 20 to help No. 3 Notre Dame beat fourth-ranked Connecticut 72-59 on Monday night and win the Big East regular season title.

Louisville senior Stewart Ijames was selected as the BIG EAST Baseball Player of the Week and Villanova junior Stephen Ostapeck was named BIG EAST Baseball Pitcher of the week after the second week of action.

Marquette forward Jae Crowder and St. John's swingman Moe Harkless have been chosen as the winners of the BIG EAST's weekly men's basketball honors for the week-ending Feb. 26.

Rice sparked the go-ahead goal with 2:56 remaining in regulation to give Villanova a 12-11 advantage before the Bison were able to tie it up to send the game into overtime. He leads the team with eight goals this year.