Is The Big East Back?
The Big East, with six NCAA Tournament teams, including Villanova and Xavier as #1 seeds, has reestablished itself as an elite conference.
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The Big East, with six NCAA Tournament teams, including Villanova and Xavier as #1 seeds, has reestablished itself as an elite conference.
The Big East Tournament may seem like Villanova's for the taking, but Butler and others will challenge them come tipoff Wednesday.
When the conference fell apart two years ago, the strength of the Big East conference was in serious doubt. Two years later, the conference has six representatives in the NCAA Tournament.
After months of hype, Florida State Seminoles fans will learn Monday night if prized quarterback Jameis Winston can deliver when FSU battles the Pitt Panthers in Pittsburgh.
The conference announced the decision Wednesday after university presidents approved the new moniker earlier in the day.
The new Big East Conference, whatever it will be called, will play its game on CBS thanks to a new deal between the two entities.
It's a rarity at this level, in any sport, for a head coach to have had no playing experience in college. It hasn't prevented Williams from guiding Marquette to the Sweet 16 the last two seasons and a 60-30 regular season record in the Big East.
The death of the Big East as we know it hit home last week as 14 teams arrived at the World's Most Famous Arena (Connecticut was ineligible). Next season, the "Catholic 7" will be reportedly joined by Butler, Creighton, and Xavier in a basketball-only conference that has paid to keep the Big East name.
Yesterday was a relatively drama-free Selection Sunday. Joe Lunardi was a perfect 68 for 68, as Middle Tennessee State, St. Mary's, Boise State, and La Salle claimed the final spots in the field. Louisville, Gonzaga, Kansas, and Indiana earned the top seeds.
Jim Larranaga's team has had a banner season, but they'll likely have to beat Duke for a second time this season -- this time with Ryan Kelly -- to reinforce their potential to go deep in the NCAA Tournament.
The Seton Hall Pirates (15-17) waited until the final minute of regulation to make it interesting, but the team from South Orange rallied in overtime to a 46-42 victory over the South Florida Bulls (12-19).
Notre Dame will join the Atlantic Coast Conference starting next season, a year earlier than expected, following the split among the Big East's football schools and seven Catholic schools that forming their own basketball-focused conference.
The once powerful Big East Conference is but a shell of its former self after multiple teams have exited the conference, or chosen to stay in another conference. Now, the conference has to ditch a plan to have divisions starting next season.
The NCAA revealed Wednesday that schools spend as much as 12 times more per athlete than they do for student. The study revealed the spending gap is the largest in the Southeastern Conference and smallest in the Mountain West Conference.
The seven Big East schools that don't play FBS football have decided to leave the conference and pursue a new basketball framework.
Fresh off an announcement of a planned move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Louisville Cardinals rallied behind Miami's Teddy Bridgewater to win a share of the Big East Championship.
It may be hard for college football fans to wrap their head around this, but it's possible a team that got destroyed on the field by the University of Kentucky may be headed for a Bowl Championship Series berth in the Orange Bowl.
Holy crap here we go again on the conference realignment train and this time it is going to get truly crazy. Plus, the Dolphins are poor in the secondary and playing the New England Patriots on Sunday. Yeah, this isn't going to be pretty. And Al Golden tells critics of his god-awful defense to stick it. All in the agenda.
Tulane University will become a full member of the Big East Conference and East Carolina will join the league as a football-only member in 2014 in the latest round of conference realignment in college athletics.
When Rutgers University announces its intention of joining the Big Ten Conference Tuesday, the Scarlet Knights' former conference, the Big East, may see its place in a college athletics placed on life support and its survival may depend on a few schools that aren't even in the conference.
Baylor and Stanford shook up the Bowl Championship Series Saturday, but the biggest winner may have been the Southeastern Conference.
It's not BCS chaos, but conference realignment chaos has erupted again in 2012 with the University of Maryland firing the first shot. Monday, Maryland's Board of Regents approved an eventual move to the Big Ten Conference.
The Orange Bowl has struck a deal with the Atlantic Coast Conference for exclusive rights to televise the Orange Bowl until 2026. The deal will kick in after the 2014 season when the college football playoff will begin.
The South Florida Bulls will take on the Louisville Cardinals at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. Here's a preview of the game from CBSSports.
The Louisville Cardinals are the overwhelming favorite to take the Big East title this year. The Cardinals received 24 of 28 first-place votes at the conference's media days gathering in Rhode Island.
Steven Matthew Wolf was found guilty in the 2018 murder of Michelle Osborne, whose nude body was found by a fisherman in Marathon.
The mayor's request comes as state and federal lawmakers prepare to tour the remote facility this weekend, amid growing scrutiny over its conditions.
Afternoon showers and storms will form inland closer to the Everglades.
The petitioners described the facility as "tantamount to a modern-day concentration camp."
The vibe is fun and festive from early evening through late night.
Steven Matthew Wolf was found guilty in the 2018 murder of Michelle Osborne, whose nude body was found by a fisherman in Marathon.
The mayor's request comes as state and federal lawmakers prepare to tour the remote facility this weekend, amid growing scrutiny over its conditions.
Afternoon showers and storms will form inland closer to the Everglades.
The petitioners described the facility as "tantamount to a modern-day concentration camp."
The vibe is fun and festive from early evening through late night.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
The American Automobile Association said this is a dangerous time of year for young drivers.
A federal judge in New Hampshire certified a class action lawsuit over President Trump's birthright citizenship order and issued a preliminary injunction blocking it.
A top official defended the agency's decision not to fire anyone in connection with the July 13 assassination attempt.
One of the highest tariffs threatened by President Trump so far is against Brazil, with the president citing a criminal prosecution against Jair Bolsonaro.
Florida's law makes it a crime for people who are in the U.S. illegally to enter the state.
The "big, beautiful bill" signed into law by President Trump last week will allow him to dramatically expand his immigration crackdown.
Jim DeFede and State Sen. Lori Berman discuss the $600 million in line-item vetoes that the governor made, as well as the funding and programs from which that money was allocated.
Gruters was among the Florida contingent who toured the facility with President Donald Trump earlier this week.
Jim DeFede talks to Key West City Commissioner Sam Kaufman about the vote and what's next.
Weil says we need someone in Washington who will fight for the people of Florida.
Butcher speaks of the detention center's potential impact on the River of Grass.
Novo Nordisk said it will stop selling Wegovy on Hims & Hers, claiming the telehealth company sold knockoff versions of the weight-loss drug.
The GOP's "big beautiful bill" would require people up to age 64 to certify they're working to get aid. Here's what the research shows.
About three dozen of the nearly 1,200 measles infections in 2025 have been in people with two measles vaccine doses, the CDC says.
The CDC's new "checklist" comes amid a deadly year of measles outbreaks that is now near record levels.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the previous roster of the CDC's vaccine advisers on Monday.
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The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Activists are calling for a nationwide boycott of Target stores following the company's decision to roll back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Discount store chain Target says it's joining rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Miami-Dade is considering four possible sites, including two that are 2 miles or less from the city of Miramar.
Julian McMahon's last acting role before his death was playing the prime minister of Australia in Netflix's murder mystery series "The Residence."
Michael Madsen apparently went into cardiac arrest and was found unresponsive in his home in Malibu, California, on Thursday morning, according to his manager.
Sean "Diddy" Combs was found guilty of two prostitution-related charges, but acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
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