If the Golden Eagles and Shaka Smart — who led Marquette to a Big East tournament title in 2023 — are to cut down the nets again, Kam Jones and Stevie Mitchell are likely to be huge factors.

tying the 2023-24 Huskies for the conference’s single-season wins record. Only three Big East schools made the NCAA Tournament last year, but all three — UConn, Marquette and Creighton ...

Both spent most of the 2023-24 season as role players ... He is the first coach to lead two Big East schools to tournament titles and, with the automatic NCAA bid locked up, the first to take ...

The Big East has five teams in the NCAA tournament this year / Bill Streicher-Imagn Images Few conferences wound up as more of a surprise than the Big East this college basketball season.

Since joining the conference, Xavier has won at least one game in the Big East Tournament in eight of 11 seasons (11-11 overall). Xavier is still searching for the program's first title after falling ...

The Musketeers won quarterfinal matchups over the Golden Eagles in 2014 (68-65) and 2016 (90-72) under Chris Mack. Marquette beat Xavier in the Big East Tournament final in 2023.

The UConn women's basketball team has the deepest roster the Huskies' could have asked for ahead of the 2025 Final Four.

No. 25 Marquette, seeded fifth, is the only other Big East squad ranked in the AP Top ... who coached the Golden Eagles to the 2023 tournament crown. “Teams are fighting. Teams are battling.