Big East News Articles

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.