UConn's return to the Big East for basketball and other sports would be 'great' for the school and the league, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said.
The UConn women's basketball team has won 18 Big East Tournament titles, and the men's team has won seven, tied with Georgetown for the most ever.
"I think it gives the geographical balance back to what the old Big East was," one Big East men's coach told me."It also brings back a program that was an original part of the Big East, so you're re-gaining part of what made the Big East great."as I reported over on ZAGSBLOGSources said that the league would play a 20-game schedule assuming UConn returns, with each of the league's 11 teams playing one another twice each season.
Villanova has won two of the last four NCAA championships, and has carried the flag for the Big East since the football schools left in 2013.Still, UConn's return after exile in the American Athletic Conference would restore one of the league's flagship programs. The Huskies regularly draw huge crowds at Madison Square Garden, and the program has produced a slew of NBA players, including Kemba Walker of the Charlotte Hornets.
It will never be the same as the old Big East was, but Boeheim says it will still be a boon for the conference.
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