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 The BIG EAST Conference has announced the league opponents and game sites for its men's basketball teams for the 2010-11 season.
 Eleven BIG EAST players were selected by NBA teams in the 2010 NBA Draft Thursday, matching the conference's best showing in the draft since the event went to a two-round format.
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. 
UConn senior center Tina Charles was named the winner of the 2010 Naismith Trophy given to the nation's top women's college player.
Jon Scheyer scored 23 points Saturday night to lift Duke, the team so many folks love to hate, to a 78-57 victory over West Virginia and set up a meeting against tiny Butler in a classic matchup of big vs. little, with the national title on the line.
Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, the winningest coach in BIG EAST Conference history and the second winningest active coach in Division I basketball, is this year’s recipient Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award, presented annually to the National Coach of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Kentucky, Ohio State and Syracuse have all won NCAA Men's Basketball championships in their history, but never has a player from those schools claimed a Naismith Trophy as the men's college player of the year.
Now that West Virginia is in the Big East tournament final, coach Bob Huggins and his Mountaineers have a large problem on their hands. His name is Greg Monroe.
Da'Sean Butler's second game-winner in three days gave West Virginia its first Big East championship. The senior guard, who banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give West Virginia a quarterfinal win, scored in the lane with 4.2 seconds left and the seventh-ranked Mountaineers beat No. 22 Georgetown 60-58 on Saturday night.
Syracuse forward Wes Johnson, a newcomer who helped lead Syracuse to the BIG EAST regular-season title and an overall record of 28-3, has been named BIG EAST Player of the Year by a vote of the league’s head coaches who were not permitted to vote for their own players.
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