Big East News Articles

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Ben Hansbrough scored 15 points and Tim Abromaitis added 14 as second-seeded Notre Dame fought off scrappy Akron for a 69-56 second-round victory Friday in the Southwest Regional

Hoyas battle Rams at approximately 9:50pm on TNT

Fighting Irish take on Zips Friday at 1:40pm on TBS

Wildcats battle Patriots Friday at 2:10 PM on TNT

Orange and Sycamores match up at approximately 9:57pm Friday night on TruTV

Golden Eagles match up with Musketeers at 7:15pm on CBS

Dwight Hardy had 26 points to lead the Red Storm.

Top-seeded Panthers to face Butler Saturday after 74-51 win

Red Storm, the 6-seed in the Southeast, face Gonzaga without D.J. Kennedy

BIG EAST regular season champions face #16 seed in Washington, D.C.