Big East Conference
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| Big East Conference | |
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| Classification | NCAA Division I FBS |
| Established | 1979 |
| Members | 16 (full) 1 (associate) |
| National championships |
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| Sports fielded | 23 (10 men's, 13 women's) |
| Region | Eastern United States |
| States | 13 - Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin |
| Headquarters | Providence, Rhode Island |
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The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of seventeen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. The conference's 17 members (16 full-time and 1 associate member) participate in 23 NCAA sports. The schools that are Big East members in football — which are actually only eight of the 11 conference schools that sponsor varsity football — are part of the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the top level of NCAA competition in that sport (still frequently known by its former designation of Division I-A).
Teams currently in the Big East account for 40 all time Final Four appearances and 10 National Championships, numbers only surpassed by the Big Ten and Pac-10 respectively. 15 of the Big East's 16 teams (or 93%) have been to the Final Four, by far the most of any conference.
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[edit] About The League
The Big East was founded in 1979 when Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut, and Boston College to form a conference primarily focused on basketball. Villanova joined a year later in 1980 and Pittsburgh joined in 1982. Big East regents rejected Penn State's application for admission into the Big East in 1982, since the conference at that time was only focused on basketball.
A decade later the Big East was serious about becoming a major football conference and added five schools, including four time champion Miami, Temple, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, and Rutgers. West Virginia and Rutgers were football-only members until 1995, Virginia Tech was a football-only member until 2001, with Temple remaining a football-only member until consistently failing to attract enough fan support and vacating its membership in 2004. Notre Dame was also offered a non-football membership as of 1995.
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This led to an unusual structure since not all members of the conference competed in Division I-A (now FBS) football. This had long led to rumors of instability, and in 2003, ongoing press reports of tensions between the football schools and the basketball schools finally exploded into a months-long public tug-of-war between the Big East and the Atlantic Coast Conference over several Big East members. The end result was that three Big East schools — Virginia Tech, Miami and Boston College — moved to the ACC, while five teams moved to the Big East from Conference USA — Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Marquette, and DePaul. For more details on this topic, see Realignment.
The addition of the three football schools, along with Big East non-football member Connecticut moving up to the Big East football conference, ensured that the league would keep the minimum eight teams needed to keep its BCS bid. In addition two traditional basketball teams, DePaul and Marquette, were added to gain the Chicago/Milwaukee TV market and help the already solid basketball status of the conference.
The Big East currently represents the majority of the large, athletically competitive private Catholic schools, with public schools Pittsburgh, Louisville, Rutgers, and Cincinnati also being located in areas with large Catholic communities. Five of the founding seven schools are Catholic schools — Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, Seton Hall, and Boston College.
In January 2006, Loyola College was added as an associate member in the sport of women's lacrosse.[1]
Big East schools compete in Division I in basketball and Olympic sports. Football members of the conference participate in Division I FBS. Notre Dame remains an FBS independent, while Georgetown and Villanova have Division I FCS (formerly I-AA) football programs. Georgetown football competes in the Patriot League. Villanova competed in the Atlantic Ten through the 2006 season, but along with all other members of the A-10 football conference will join the new football conference to be sponsored by the Colonial Athletic Association in 2007.
[edit] Members
Full member institutions include:
* Notre Dame will schedule 3 Big East teams per year, but does not compete in the conference.
[edit] Academic and Research Achievements
The Big East is composed of a wide variety of schools, from small private schools like Villanova, to major urban public universities like Pittsburgh, Louisville, & Cincinnati; and land grant universities like West Virginia, Connecticut, and Rutgers.
Notable Research Achievements by Big East schools include:
- The University of Notre Dame built the first wind tunnel.
- The University of Notre Dame sent the first wireless message in 1899.
- The University of Notre Dame created synthetic rubber.
- The University of Louisville Hospital created the first specialized trauma center for civilians, now known as an emergency room, in the world in 1930
- The University of Louisville Hospital was the first in the world to staff police and fire trucks with trained nurses and medical equipment, the forerunner for today's Ambulance
- University of Louisville also trasplanted the first hand in the US, and first self contained Artificial heart in the world
- University of Louisville developed the Pap Smear test for human papilloma virus
- University of Louisville researchers developed Gardasil, the world's first HPV vaccine
- University of Louisville alumnus Donald Elbert led the team of engineers that developed Astroturf
- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is renowned for its transplant services having performed more transplants than any other hospital in the world including the first double-organ transplant
- The University of Pittsburgh has the tallest academic building, The Cathedral of Learning at 42 stories, in the United States
- The University of Pittsburgh developed the Polio Vaccine in 1955
- The University of Pittsburgh astronomer David Turnshek discovered the most distant galaxy currently known
- The University of Pittsburgh, along with Carnegie Mellon University, operates the most powerful non-military computer in the world, The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- University of Connecticut scientists created the first animal cloned from non-reproductive cells, a cow named Amy
- Rutgers University houses the worlds largest repository of cells and DNA
- Rutgers University, founded in 1766 is one of only 9 universities founded before the American Revolution
- Streptomycin, the first antibiotic cure for tuberculosis, was discovered at Rutgers University.
[edit] Basketball
| 2006-2007 Average Men's Basketball Attendance | |
| School | Average Attendance |
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| Syracuse | 21,488 |
| Louisville | 18,488 |
| Marquette | 15,345 |
| Connecticut | 13,012 |
| Pittsburgh | 11,611 |
| Villanova | 10,706 |
| DePaul | 10,551 |
| Georgetown | 10,441 |
| West Virginia | 9,649 |
| Notre Dame | 9,027 |
| Cincinnati | 8,831 |
| Providence | 8,410 |
| St John's | 6,920 |
| Seton Hall | 6,636 |
| Rutgers | 5,453 |
| South Florida | 3,852 |
- See also: Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
The Big East was founded by seven charter schools in 1979 (Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, Syracuse, Seton Hall, UConn, and Boston College) with the intent of creating a powerhouse basketball conference. Villanova joined the following year, followed by Pittsburgh in 1982.
It wouldn't take long for the conference to meet its original aim, with Georgetown, led by freshman Patrick Ewing, making the NCAA Championship Game (losing to the Michael Jordan-led North Carolina Tar Heels. Just two years later in 1984 Georgetown won the Big East's first NCAA basketball championship with a victory over the University of Houston.
The following year three Big East teams (Villanova, St. John's, and Georgetown) all advanced to the Final Four, culminating in Villanova's stunning championship game victory over the heavily-favored Hoyas. The conference's 1985 success was nearly duplicated in 1987, when Syracuse and a surprising Providence both made the Final Four, followed by the Orangemen's narrow loss to Indiana University in the tournament final. Two years later, the Seton Hall Pirates also advanced to the NCAA Championship Game, but were defeated by the University of Michigan Wolverines in a controversial overtime heartbreaker.
| Team | Championships | Final Fours |
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| Louisville | 2 | 8 |
| Cincinnati | 2 | 6 |
| Connecticut | 2 | 2 |
| Georgetown | 1 | 4 |
| Syracuse | 1 | 4 |
| Marquette | 1 | 3 |
| Villanova | 1 | 2 |
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Georgetown, led by John Thompson, was one of the primary powers in the conference, led by Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, and Dikembe Mutombo.
Since the late 1990s, basketball in the Big East has been led by UConn, under the guidance of Jim Calhoun and Pittsburgh (since the early 2000s) under Ben Howland and later, Jamie Dixon. UConn won a national championship in 1999. The Big East held back to back national championships as Syracuse won a title under Jim Boeheim in 2003, and UConn again in 2004. Other teams have enjoyed recent success from 2004 to present, including WVU and Villanova. Georgetown, now coached by Thompson's son, is a participant in the 2007 Final Four, while UConn remains the last Big East team to win a national championship (the aforementioned title in 2004). The Big East has a very long and distinguished list of former players currently playing in the NBA with some of the most recent being Allen Iverson, Ray Allen, Richard "Rip" Hamilton, Ben Gordon, Emeka Okafor, Carmelo Anthony, Hakim Warrick, Randy Foye, Kyle Lowry, Rudy Gay, Marcus Williams, Hilton Armstrong, Josh Boone, and Charlie Villanueva.
In the 2006 season the Big East got a record eight teams into the NCAA tournament. These teams were Syracuse, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Marquette, UConn, Seton Hall, Villanova, and Georgetown.
Big East women's basketball is nearly as powerful as the conference's men's programs. UConn coach Geno Auriemma has led the women's team to five national championships (including four between 2000 and 2004) and two undefeated seasons (1995 and 2002). UConn set the record for longest winning streak in all of NCAA women's basketball history with a 70 game winning streak stretching from 2001-2003. This streak was ended in 2003 when Villanova beat UConn for the Big East tournament title, in what is considered one of the biggest upsets in women's basketball (Villanova would go on to reach the Elite Eight that year). Under the strength of the UConn program, and to a lesser extent Boston College, Rutgers, and 2001 national champion Notre Dame, the Big East has emerged as one of the major powers in women's college basketball.
[edit] Football
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| 2005 Average Football Attendance | |
| School | Average Attendance |
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| West Virginia | 56,287 |
| Louisville | 41,001 |
| Pittsburgh | 40,272 |
| Syracuse | 40,252 |
| Connecticut | 40,000 |
| South Florida | 38,865 |
| Rutgers | 33,184 |
| Cincinnati | 22,423 |
| Big East Conference Average | 39,035 |
Big East began football during the 1991-1992 season with the addition of Miami and was a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series. The league obtained immediate legitimacy with the addition of powerhouse Miami.
In the league's first years the University of Miami dominated, winning eight of the first thirteen championships and two national championships in 1991 and 2001. Virginia Tech also did well, winning the conference in 1995 and 1996 conference champion and being national runner up in 1999. Only West Virginia and Syracuse would also win conference titles during league's original alignment.
The conference experienced a major reconstruction when Miami and Virginia Tech left for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004, followed by Boston College in 2005. Since Miami's past success was part of the reason the league's champion automatically received a berth in a BCS bowl game, the conference's remaining schools feared losing BCS revenue and a chance to play for the National Championship.
In response, the Big East invited rising powerhouse Louisville, and also Cincinnati and South Florida from Conference USA to join. The league also invited the University of Connecticut to join in football a year earlier than planned. At the same time, the struggling program at Temple finally failed to live up to its minimal ticket sales goals and was no longer eligible to be a Big East member.
In the midst of this transition, the 2004 season was the low point for Big East football. For this one season, the league was down to seven teams. None finished in the AP top 20, and four teams tied for the conference title. One of those four was outgoing Boston College, who lost out on a chance to secure the conference's BCS bid when they were blown out by Syracuse in the last game of the season.
After the completion of the regular season, Pittsburgh received the Big East’s automatic BCS berth with a #21 ranking. In the Fiesta Bowl, Pitt was trounced, 35-7, by undefeated Utah, the first team from a non-BCS conference (the Mountain West) to qualify for the lucrative bowls.
At about this time, the BCS announced that it would adjust the automatic bids granted to its six founding conferences based on results from 2004-07, and that there would be five, six, or seven such bids starting in 2008. The obvious inference was that soon the Big East might lose its bid, and the Mountain West might gain one.
The conference’s fortunes improved in 2005. The three new teams from Conference USA began play that year, restoring the league to eight teams. West Virginia won the conference title, defeated SEC champion Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, and finished 11-1 and finished #5 in the AP poll. Newcomer Louisville also ranked in the top 20.
In 2006, the Big East’s troubles became a distant memory. West Virginia, Louisville, and former dormant Rutgers all entered November undefeated. They did not stay that way, as in a trio of exciting games over the next month receiving national attention, Louisville defeated West Virginia 44-34, Rutgers defeated Louisville 28-25 (in the most watched weeknight college football game in history), and West Virginia defeated Rutgers 41-39 (in three overtimes). Rutgers’ resurgence after a century of mostly futile play was a national story, but Louisville won the conference title in the end. In bowl action, the Big East went 5-0, including an Orange Bowl victory for Louisville over surprise ACC champion Wake Forest and a win by West Virginia over ACC championship game runner-up Georgia Tech.
Louisville ended the year ranked #6, West Virginia #10, and Rutgers #12.
[edit] Conference facilities
Notes:
- The University of Louisville is in the process of a $63 million expansion of Papa John's Cardinal Stadium to 63,600 and constructing a new $350 million downtown waterfront arena that will seat 23,500. Both projects are funded and expected to be complete by 2010.
- The three football stadia listed above at Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Villanova are not "conference facilities" as those universities are not members of Big East Football. Notre Dame is a Division I FBS independent, Georgetown plays in the FCS Patriot League, and Villanova will move its FCS program from the Atlantic 10 to the new Colonial Athletic Association football conference in 2007.
- St. John's men generally play their Big East home schedule in Madison Square Garden and their non-conference home schedule on campus at Carnesecca Arena. In 2005-06, St. John's played only one non-conference game at MSG and one Big East game on campus.
- For certain high-profile home games, Villanova uses the Wachovia Center, and previously used the Wachovia Spectrum. In 2005-06, Villanova played three home games at the Wachovia Center and the rest on campus at The Pavilion. In 2006, the Wachovia Center was also a first-round site for the NCAA Tournament. Under NCAA rules, a venue is not considered a home court unless a school plays four or more regular-season games there; this enabled Villanova to play its first two tournament games at the Wachovia Center (but Villanova was not considered the host school for that sub-region—the Atlantic 10 Conference was). This situation will apply again in 2009 when the Wachovia Center was announced as a first/second round site to be hosted by Saint Joseph's University
- For Syracuse basketball games in the Carrier Dome, the court is laid out on one end of the field and stands are erected beside it. This makes the Carrier Dome the largest on-campus venue for college basketball in the nation.
[edit] Rivalries
[edit] Realignment
In 2003 the Big East was put on watch as the ACC announced plans to expand from nine teams to twelve. Miami, Syracuse, and BC were rumored to be the three schools under consideration, and all three met with officials from the ACC regarding membership. At the same time, the Big East itself was contemplating its future.
It was later revealed that Miami had been dissatisfied with the Big East and its leadership since a formal letter of complaint was issued by Miami to Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese in 1999. Their issues went unresolved, leading to Miami's interest in the ACC — a league which had been pursuing the college football superpower since the mid-1990s, at the request of football-oriented Florida State, Clemson and Georgia Tech. Those schools were concerned with the balance of power in the ACC, which they viewed as tilted towards "Tobacco Road", the nickname given to the four North Carolina ACC schools and their nationally prominent basketball programs.
Led by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, UConn and the "remaining" football schools (Virginia Tech, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia) filed two lawsuits, one against the ACC, and the other against Miami and BC, accusing them of improper disclosure of confidential information and of conspiring to weaken the Big East. Syracuse was not named as a defendant in part because they never made public comments about the ongoing situation.
Talks with Syracuse indicated that it would likely leave the Big East. Meanwhile Virginia Tech made it clear that they had long wanted to join the ACC. Finally, in a last-minute about-face, due in large measure to political pressure applied by Governor Mark Warner of Virginia, the ACC replaced Syracuse with Virginia Tech in its expansion vote. Things became even more surprising when, reached by phone at a conference in Switzerland, then-N.C. State Chancellor Marye Anne Fox cast a last-minute "no" vote against BC.[3] As a result, the ACC extended invitations only to Miami and Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech immediately accepted the invitation and filed court papers to get themselves out of the awkward position of suing their new conference. Miami, stunned by the outcome of the vote, delayed their acceptance until the last possible day. Miami President Donna Shalala explained the delay stating "We had numbers on BC-Virginia Tech. We had done numbers on Miami alone. But we had not anticipated that Virginia Tech and Miami would be the only two invitees."[3] The remaining four plaintiffs removed BC from the list of defendants and asked both BC and Syracuse to join their suit. Both declined.
Leaked minutes of Big East meetings have shed light on the confusing process surrounding the defection of three of its members. At a summer meeting of the "football schools", following the announced departures of Miami and Virginia Tech, discussion among the Presidents and Athletic Directors of the remaining schools focused on a potential split into two conferences; an all-sports conference including football, and a second conference focused primarily on basketball. The idea of a 16-team superconference of both basketball and football schools was discussed, as was merging with Conference USA. Minutes of a July 9, 2003 meeting of presidents and athletic directors held before any detailed review of the conference's options show that Syracuse Athletic Director Jake Crouthamel and BC Athletic Director Gene DeFilippo went on record indicating they would resign their positions if the Big East expanded to 16 teams.
In response to a proposal for the establishment of a binding agreement among the six schools with a $5 million exit fee and 27-month notice requirement. Meanwhile, the Big East presidents agreed to meet with and possibly extend invitations to Penn State and Notre Dame, however neither school showed interest in joining the conference.[4] The minutes show the presidents unanimously voted to support an eventual conference invitation for the University of Louisville, and to begin due diligence on Louisville and other proposed new members. Several models for a new conference were discussed; and it was decided that the football schools would explore separating from the basketball-only schools to establish an 8-team all-sports conference. The presidents and athletic directors described the breakup of the football and basketball schools as "inevitable".
Additional meetings of the football conference members occurred between July and October of 2003. In the course of those meetings it was realized that the break-up scenario would not be feasible because the new football conference would lose its automatic NCAA basketball tournament berth and possibly its BCS bid, as well as the Big East name. Further, the football schools had not been together long enough to satisfy certain NCAA rules. At a Big East meeting in Newark on Oct. 1, after a discussion of Notre Dame's concerns for stability, BC president Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., addressed rumors surrounding BC's intentions toward the Big East. Fr. Leahy conceded that BC might indeed be leaving the conference and he would determine how genuine the ACC's reported interest in having any school as a 12th member.[5] He stated he could not agree to an exit penalty larger than the already agreed to $5,000,000. And he expressed concerns about academic and graduation rate issues at Louisville and Cincinnati that arose during due diligence. It was decided that the conference would add additional football and basketball schools and continue in its existing structure until such time as the football schools could establish their own conference. Unhappy with the vote on the future structure of the conference, the administration of BC continued discussions with the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Speculation that Chancellor Fox, a Notre Dame trustee, cast her initial vote against BC so that the ACC might consider extending membership to Notre Dame was fueled by press accounts reporting that a bid to the Fighting Irish was imminent. But in mid-October 2003, the ACC voted unanimously to accept BC as its twelfth member. When BC agreed they were returned to the lawsuit still pending against Miami by several Big East schools. After expansion, Jake Crouthamel retired as athletic director at Syracuse.
In response to losing three football programs, the Big East extended invitations to five schools from Conference USA in order to replenish their football ranks and to create a 16-team basketball superconference. The schools that left Conference USA on July 1, 2005 for the Big East are:
- University of Cincinnati
- DePaul University (non-football school)
- University of Louisville
- Marquette University (non-football school)
- University of South Florida
The fallout from the Conference USA realignment instigated a chain reaction of conference realignments that affected the WAC, MAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West, and Atlantic Ten Conferences. At the same time, the UConn Huskies completed their leap to Division I-A football and became a full member of the conference in 2004, resulting in their first-ever bowl bid.
[edit] Conference Champions by year
| Year | Men's B-ball Regular Season Champion | Men's B-ball Tournament Champion | Women's B-ball Regular Season Champion | Women's B-ball Tournament Champion | Football Champion |
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| 1979/1980 | Georgetown/St. John's/Syracuse | Georgetown | |||
| 1980/81 | Boston College | Syracuse | |||
| 1981/82 | Villanova | Georgetown | |||
| 1982/83 | Boston College/St. John's/Villanova | St. John's | Providence/St. John's | St. John's | |
| 1983/84 | Georgetown | Georgetown | Pittsburgh/Villanova | Pittsburgh | |
| 1984/85 | St. John's | Georgetown | St. John's/Villanova | St. John's | |
| 1985/86 | St. John's/Syracuse | St. John's | Providence | Providence | |
| 1986/87 | Georgetown/Pittsburgh/Syracuse | Georgetown | Villanova | Villanova | |
| 1987/88 | Pittsburgh | Syracuse | Syracuse | Syracuse | |
| 1988/89 | Georgetown | Georgetown | Connecticut | Connecticut | |
| 1989/1990 | Connecticut/Syracuse | Connecticut | Connecticut/Providence | Connecticut | |
| 1990/91 | Syracuse | Seton Hall | Connecticut | Connecticut | |
| 1991/92 | Georgetown/St. John's/Seton Hall | Syracuse | Miami | Miami | Miami |
| 1992/93 | Seton Hall | Seton Hall | Georgetown/Miami | Georgetown | Miami |
| 1993/94 | Connecticut | Providence | Connecticut | Connecticut | West Virginia |
| 1994/95 | Connecticut | Villanova | Connecticut | Connecticut | Miami |
| 1995/96 | Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut | Virginia Tech |
| 1996/97 | Boston College/Villanova | Boston College | Connecticut | Connecticut | Virginia Tech |
| 1997/98 | Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut | Syracuse |
| 1998/99 | Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut/Rutgers | Connecticut | Syracuse |
| 1999/2000 | Syracuse/Miami | St. John's | Connecticut | Connecticut | Virginia Tech |
| 2000/01 | Boston College | Boston College | Connecticut/Notre Dame | Connecticut | Miami |
| 2001/02 | Connecticut/Pittsburgh | Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut | Miami |
| 2002/03 | Pittsburgh/Syracuse | Pittsburgh | Connecticut | Villanova | Miami |
| 2003/04 | Pittsburgh | Connecticut | Connecticut | Boston College | Miami*/West Virginia |
| 2004/05 | Boston College/Connecticut | Syracuse | Rutgers | Connecticut | Pittsburgh*/West Virginia/Boston College/Syracuse |
| 2005/06 | Connecticut/Villanova | Syracuse | Rutgers | Connecticut | West Virginia |
| 2006/07 | Georgetown | Georgetown | Connecticut | Rutgers | Louisville |
Note: *Received the Conference's only BCS berth
[edit] Big East Schools Ranked by Endowment
- University of Notre Dame $4.5 billion (18th Nationally)[6]
- University of Pittsburgh $1.398 billion (34th)[7]
- University of Cincinnati $1.032 billion (54th)[citation needed]
- Syracuse University $818 million (70th)[citation needed]
- Georgetown University $741 million (78th)[citation needed]
- University of Louisville $607 million (89th)[citation needed]
- Rutgers University $494 million (113th)[citation needed]
- West Virginia University $396 million (148th)[citation needed]
- University of South Florida $289 million (162nd)[citation needed]
- Marquette University $266 million (178th)[citation needed]
- St. John's University $264 million (180th)[citation needed]
- University of Connecticut $261 million (183rd)[citation needed]
- DePaul University $251 million (188th)[citation needed]
- Villanova University $238 million (196th)[citation needed]
- Seton Hall University $181 million (231st)[citation needed]
- Providence College $117 million (308th)[citation needed]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.bigeast.org/sports/w-lacros/spec-rel/010306aaa.html
- ^ http://www.louisville.edu/about/profile.html
- ^ a b http://www.ncsu.edu/news/dailyclips/0603/062703.htm#18
- ^ http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/sports/college/s_307414.html
- ^ http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2005/06/30/bcs_bumpy_landing/?page=1
- ^ http://controller.nd.edu/files/reports/2006-investment.pdf
- ^ http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0112636.html
| NCAA Division I Bowl Subdivision Football Conferences: |
| Atlantic Coast Conference* – Big 12 Conference* – Big East Conference* – Big Ten Conference* – Conference USA – Mid-American Conference – Mountain West Conference – Pacific Ten Conference* – Southeastern Conference* – Sun Belt Conference – Western Athletic Conference – Independents |
| * – BCS Conference |
| Big East Conference |
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| Football: Cincinnati • Connecticut • Louisville • Pittsburgh • Rutgers • South Florida • Syracuse • West Virginia Non-football: DePaul • Georgetown • Marquette • Notre Dame • Providence • St. John's • Seton Hall • Villanova |
| Current Basketball Arenas in the Big East |
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| Alumni Hall (Providence women) •Allstate Arena (DePaul men) • Bradley Center (Marquette men) • Carnesecca Arena (St. John's) • Carrier Dome (Syracuse) • Continental Airlines Arena (Seton Hall men) • Dunkin' Donuts Center (Providence men) • Fifth Third Arena (Cincinnati) • Freedom Hall (Louisville) • Gampel Pavilion (Connecticut) • Hartford Civic Center (Connecticut) • Joyce Center (Notre Dame) • Louis Brown Athletic Center (Rutgers) • Madison Square Garden (St. John's men) • McDonough Gymnasium (Georgetown women) • McGuire Center (Marquette women) • The Pavilion (Villanova) • Petersen Events Center (Pittsburgh) • Sullivan Athletic Center (DePaul women) • USF Sun Dome (South Florida) • Verizon Center (Georgetown men) • Wachovia Center (Villanova) • Walsh Gymnasium (Seton Hall women) • WVU Coliseum (West Virginia) |
