Big East News Articles

A capsule look at spring sports in the Big East

The current Big East Conference has announced that it will be renamed the American Athletic Conference and will rebrand as such across all platforms, associations and media at the conclusion of the 2012-13 sports seasons.

Tulsa’s entrance gives the Conference 11 all-sports members for 2014, adds a successful and broad-based athletic program and enhances the league’s geographic footprint

University of Tulsa Quick Facts

Notre Dame top seed in men's lacrosse championship; Syracuse and Loyola meet Saturday with No. 1 seed in women's championship at stake; BIG EAST baseball teams take down top-ranked squads; Louisville and USF clinch BIG EAST Championship bids in softball; Louisivlle, Notre Dame win tennis titles; USF claims women's golf crown.

Men's lacrosse regular-season title on the line Saturday; Louisville takes control of softball race; USF sits atop baseball standings; four women's lacrosse teams among RPI top 20; tennis, golf championships get underway

On Saturday, March 31st, the BIG EAST Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) performed a community service day with Special Olympics Rhode Island. Fourteen student-athletes and athletic administrators representing various BIG EAST Conference schools, visited East Providence Bowling Lanes and assisted with their Unified Bowling Tournament for over 200 athletes.

USF softball has won 18 straight; Louisville baseball drops top-ranked Kentucky; St. John's men's lacrosse ron the rise; Syracuse women's lacrosse ranked No. 2.

A look around the league at the stories of the spring.

University of Notre Dame tennis player Tyler Davis and Rutgers University tennis player Amy Zhang have been chosen as the first winners of the American Eagle Outfitters Michael Tranghese Postgraduate Leadership Award, as chosen by the BIG EAST Conference Academic Affairs Committee.

National STUDENT-Athlete Day, a program of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS), has been celebrated annually on April 6 since 1987.

Paul Tagliabue, the Commissioner of the NFL from 1989 until 2006, will serve as a Special Advisor to the BIG EAST Conference to provide strategic advice on future television arrangements and other priority matters, BIG EAST Commissioner John Marinatto announced.