Big East Conference

Big East Conference, American collegiate athletic association that consists of Butler, Creighton, Connecticut, DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Villanova, and Xavier universities and Providence College. The conference was founded in 1979 by seven eastern institutions with notable men’s basketball programs: Georgetown, Syracuse University, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John’s, Connecticut, and Boston College. Villanova joined the following year and the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. Big East schools that fielded division I-A (the top...