Marquette Joins the Big East; a Real High Riser; Conference Made Name in Basketball
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › October 20, 2005
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It's now regarded by many as the strongest conglomeration of college basketball teams ever, a 16-team monstrosity stretching across nearly a third of the United States.
But the Big East Conference was created more than 27 years ago with more modest intentions, namely increased media coverage and more NCAA tournament bids for a select group of mostly private schools in major media markets stretching from New England to Washington, D.C.See the full content of this document
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Marquette Joins the Big East; a Real High Riser; Conference Made Name in Basketball
It was the brainchild of then-Providence athletic director Dave Gavitt, who invited his counterparts from St. John's, Georgetown and Syracuse to the LaGuardia Airport Sheraton on May 8, 1979, to discuss the feasibility of such an alliance. The four agreed on the basics, and later that month at the Providence Civic Center in Rhode Island, it officially became a reality.
Boston College, Seton Hall and Connecticut were also invited to join and by that fa...See the full content of this document
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