USF ousted in Big East tourney Rayburn's basket pushes Purdue past Penn State Eastern Wins SecondRound Tourney Game In Double OT Shoni Schimmel leads Louisville women's basketball Villanova Oliver Rutgers women over Marquette No. 8 beats 11 Georgetown 8369 Women's Basketball Roundup West Virginia beat Syracus falls short to Cincinnati 7268 Cooley 20 Irish end twogame losing streak make quarters Hot Notre Dame Providence tops Syracuse Advances With Win Over Opener

Big East Tournament's first glimpse at madness came 30 years ago in Hartford Conference held its last tournament anywhere other than Madison Square Garden in 1982 in Connecticut's capital DePaul gets UConn; Notre Dame, Marquette get Big East byes The Big East tournament field is set, and DePaul gets the defending national champions. Marquette and Notre Dame, meanwhile, get a couple days off. Irish, not Huskies, play role of headliner Fresh off their first outright Big East regular-season championship, Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw and her third-ranked Fighting Irish are focusing on winning the conference tournament. South Florida Looking For Big East Basketball Respect Most years, 10 wins in the Big East Conference would translate into an NCAA Tournament bid. Big East women's basketball tournament 2012: A look at Notre Dame, Connecticut and more Will Irish win its first conference tournament? Georgetown vs. Marquette: Hoyas aim for double-bye in Big East tournament Georgetown men's basketball Coach John Thompson III said he intentionally ignored his team's seeding scenarios for the Big East tournament in an effort to avoid getting ahead of himself. That embargo, however, ended earlier this week when Thompson took a peek at the permutations. What he saw was enough to make his head spin: Entering Saturday's game at No. 8 Marquette , his 11th-ranked Hoyas can ... Cincinnati tops Villanova 72-68 in Big East finale Yancy Gates scored 16 points and Dion Dixon had 14 to lead Cincinnati to a 72-68 win over Villanova on Saturday in the final game for both teams before the Big East tournament. The Bearcats (22-9, 12-6) got late 3s from Sean Kilpatrick and JaQuon Parker to snap a tie game and send them to their fifth win in six games. Diggins, Barnes Arico win Big East top awards Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins was honored Friday as the Big East player of the year after leading the Irish to their first outright regular-season conference title. The junior guard, who also was the conference's pre-season player of the year, helped No. 3 Notre Dame to a 28-2 record (15-1 Big East), averaging 17.4 points and 5.8 assists. Rutgers' Oliver takes on physical challenge Center court before the start of the Big East Tournament games Saturday at the XL Center. / US PRESSWIRE HARTFORD, CONN. CBT: No. 8 Marquette locks up No. 2 Big East seed CBT: Marquette locked up the No. 2 seed in the Big East tournament while Georgetown gave away a shot at getting one of the four double-byes.
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