While college football has created waves of realignment, the Big East hasn’t just survived. It has begun to thrive. But it needs that to continue.
Flaws put Georgia's three-peat hopes in grave dangerIn terms of the big year ahead.In terms of what has transpired from the time the conference had to rebrand itself until now.Three of the last seven national champions have come from the league. It has three preseason top-10 teams in Marquette, Connecticut and Creighton. Two of its top brands, St. John’s and Georgetown,, to infuse energy and excitement into their previously flatlining programs.
Already, the Big East has indirectly been hurt by all the movement that has taken place recently. There was an agreement in principle between the Big East and the Big Ten to continue the Gavitt Games next year, the series of non-conference games pitting the best teams from the two conferences against one another. But the Big Ten backed out, Ackerman said, because it is unsure how many conference games it will play now that it will have 18 teams next winter.
Ackerman is confident her basketball-only schools — only Connecticut has FBS football — are loyal and uninterested in looking elsewhere. She’s spoken to coaches like Shaka Smart who have coached at schools where basketball is clearly not No. 1, and they have raved about what a difference it makes when their sport is the driving force.“I think it’s the last bastion of common sense,” Pitino said. “The Big East has stability.
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