The
Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics
conference consisting of sixteen 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. Eight
of the seventeen conference schools are
football members and the Big East competes
as a
BCS conference in the
Division I Football
Bowl Subdivision , the top level of NCAA competition in that
sport (also known by its former designation: Division I-A).
Three
members have football programs but are not Big East football
schools: Georgetown
and Villanova
compete in the Football
Championship Subdivision and Notre
Dame
plays as an FBS
independent.
The Big East has had all 8 members play in bowl games since
re-alignment and has had 7 of 8 teams ranked in the Top 25 since
2003.
The
last 3 years the Big East has seen the emergence of new national
players West Virginia
University
rising to as high as No. 1 and was ranked in
the Top 10 for three-straight years, 2005,2006,2007) (University of
South Florida
rising as high as #2, Rutgers
and University of
Louisville
as high as #6, University of Connecticut
as high as #13 and University of
Cincinnati
as high as #5 in BCS standings). Also, Big
East football has seen an increase in attendance and is enjoying a
new, quarter of a billion dollar plus
television package that lasts through 2013.
In
basketball, Big East teams
account for 40 Final Four appearances and 10 NCAA Championships,
numbers only surpassed by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big
Ten Conference (Big Ten) and Pac-10. Of the Big East's 16 full
members, 15 (or 94%) have been to the
Final
Four, by far the most of any conference.
It should be noted that Louisville, Marquette, DePaul, Notre Dame,
Rutgers, Cincinnati, West Virginia and Pittsburgh made their trips
before joining the Big East.
The only full member that has never been to
the Final Four is South Florida. The Big East set the record for the most
teams sent to the
NCAA Tournament by a
single conference in 2006, with eight. The conference tied its own
record in 2008.
History
The Big
East was founded in 1979 when Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Rutgers, Connecticut, Holy
Cross
, and Boston
College to form a conference primarily focused on basketball,
withRutgers and Holy
Cross declining to join. Villanova joined a year later in 1980 and
Pittsburgh joined in 1982.
Also in
1982, Penn
State
applied for membership, but was rejected by a 5-3
vote. It was long rumored that Syracuse cast the deciding
vote against Penn State, but
Mike
Tranghese confirmed that this was not the case and that
Syracuse had, in fact, voted for Penn State's inclusion.
Almost a decade later, Big East members decided to become a major
football conference and thus added five schools including four-time
champion
Miami,
Temple,
Virginia
Tech,
West Virginia,
and
Rutgers. Penn State
joined the
Big Ten Conference.
The inaugural Big East football season launched in 1991. West
Virginia and Rutgers were football-only members until 1995,
Virginia Tech was a football-only member until 2001, with Temple
remained a football-only member until 2004 after failing to attract
enough fan support consistently.
Notre Dame was also offered a
non-football membership as of 1995. This led to an unusual
conference structure with some schools competing in Division I
basketball only.
- Big East Sports Offered
- Baseball
- Women's and Men's Basketball
- Women's and Men's Cross Country
- Football
- Field Hockey
- Women's and Men's Golf
- Women's and Men's Lacrosse
- Women's Rowing
- Women's and Men's Soccer
- Softball
- Women's and Men's Swimming & Diving
- Women's and Men's Tennis
- Women's and Men's Indoor & Outdoor Track
- Volleyball
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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 and Milwaukee TV markets and help the already solid
basketball status of the conference.
Currently, the Big East represents the majority of the large,
athletically competitive private
Catholic schools, while public schools
UConn, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Rutgers, South Florida, West
Virginia and Cincinnati are 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 University Maryland
(then Loyola College in Maryland) joined as an
associate member in the sport of women's lacrosse.
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 joined the new football conference launched by the
Colonial Athletic
Association in 2007.
An interesting note is that the 8 schools which play football in
the conference are all state-supported (or in the case of
Pittsburgh,
state-related) with
the exception of Syracuse (a private but secular institution),
whereas the 8 schools that do not play football in the conference
are all affiliated with the
Roman
Catholic Church.
Beginning in 2010, the Big East will sponsor a men's
lacrosse league with Georgetown, Notre Dame,
Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s, Syracuse and Villanova
participating.
Commissioners
Mike Tranghese retired at the end of the 2008–09 academic year,
which he announced in June 2008, and was replaced by former senior
associate commissioner John Marinatto.
2005 realignment
Members
The full member institutions of the Big East are:
| Institution |
Location |
Founded |
Affiliation |
Enrollment |
Football
Member
|
Year
Joined
|
Nickname |
Endowment |
| CincinnatiUniversity of Cincinnati |
Cincinnati , Ohio |
1819 |
Public |
36,518 |
Yes |
2005 |
Bearcats |
$1,185,000,000 |
| ConnecticutUniversity of
Connecticut |
Storrs , Connecticut |
1881 |
Public |
28,411 |
Yes |
1979 |
Huskies |
$336,000,000 |
DePaul University |
Chicago , Illinois |
1898 |
Private/Catholic |
23,570 |
No |
2005 |
Blue Demons |
$407,000,000 |
| Georgetown University |
Washington, D.C. |
1789 |
Private/Catholic |
13,612 |
No* |
1979 |
Hoyas |
$1,000,000,000 |
| LouisvilleUniversity of Louisville |
Louisville , Kentucky |
1798 |
Public |
21,689 |
Yes |
2005 |
Cardinals |
$796,000,000 |
Marquette University |
Milwaukee , Wisconsin |
1881 |
Private/Catholic |
11,510 |
No |
2005 |
Golden Eagles |
$301,000,000 |
| Notre
DameUniversity of Notre Dame |
Notre Dame, Indiana |
1842 |
Private/Catholic |
11,415 |
No* |
1995 |
Fighting Irish |
$6,500,000,000 |
PittsburghUniversity of Pittsburgh |
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania |
1787 |
Public/State-Related |
32,105 |
Yes |
1982 |
Panthers |
$2,800,000,000 |
Providence College |
Providence , Rhode
Island |
1917 |
Private/Catholic |
3,648 |
No |
1979 |
Friars |
$117,000,000 |
Rutgers University |
New Brunswick , New
Jersey |
1766 |
Public |
34,696 |
Yes |
1991 |
Scarlet Knights |
$654,000,000 |
Saint John's
UniversitySt. John's
University |
Queens , New
York |
1870 |
Private/Catholic |
19,813 |
No |
1979 |
Red Storm |
$500,000,000 |
Seton Hall University |
South Orange , New
Jersey |
1856 |
Private/Catholic |
9,700 |
No |
1979 |
Pirates |
$261,000,000 |
| South
FloridaUniversity of South Florida |
Tampa , Florida |
1956 |
Public |
40,261 |
Yes |
2005 |
Bulls |
$388,000,000 |
Syracuse University |
Syracuse , New
York |
1870 |
Private/Non-sectarian |
18,247 |
Yes |
1979 |
Orange |
$1,100,000,000 |
| Villanova University |
Villanova , Pennsylvania |
1842 |
Private/Catholic |
9,500 |
No* |
1980 |
Wildcats |
$335,000,000 |
| West Virginia University |
Morgantown , West
Virginia |
1867 |
Public |
28,839 |
Yes |
1991 |
Mountaineers |
$430,000,000 |
* Denotes schools that sponsor football programs outside
of the Big East Conference (see above)
Locations of current Big East
Conference full member institutions.
Associate members
Former members
Men's basketball
| 2008-2009 Average Men's
Basketball Attendance |
|
| School |
Average Attendance |
| Syracuse |
20,345 |
| Louisville |
19,481 |
| Marquette |
16,239 |
| Georgetown |
12,955 |
| Connecticut |
11,887 |
| Pittsburgh |
10,969 |
| West
Virginia |
10,207 |
| Villanova |
9,838 |
| Notre
Dame |
9,726 |
| DePaul |
9,262 |
| Cincinnati |
8,534 |
| Providence |
8,527 |
| Seton Hall |
7,226 |
| St.
John's |
5,886 |
| Rutgers |
5,176 |
| USF |
5,123 |
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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 senior
Sleepy Floyd and freshman
Patrick Ewing, making the
NCAA
Championship Game (losing to the
James
Worthy-led
North Carolina Tar
Heels, who sported a freshman
Michael
Jordan). 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
College 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 Michigan Wolverines in
an overtime heartbreaker.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Georgetown, St. John's, and
Syracuse were the primary powers in the conference. Georgetown was
led by
John Thompson Jr.,
who was named three times as the conference Coach of the Year. They
won five regular season conference championships and six Big East
Tournaments to go with their 1984 national title. St. John's was
led by
Lou Carnesecca, who won the
National Coach of the Year honor in 1983 and 1985. He led the
Redmen (now the Red Storm) to the 1985 Final Four, and made a
post-season appearance in each of his 24 years at the helm.
Syracuse has been led by alumnus
Jim
Boeheim since the 1977 season. He was named conference Coach of
the Year in 1984 and 1991. During this period, the Orangemen won
five regular season conference championships, three Big East
Tournaments, and were invited to the NCAA Tournament every year but
two (1981 and 1982), losing the 1987 National Final to
Indiana.
From the mid 90's to mid 00's, basketball in the Big East was
largely dominated by UConn. Hall of Fame coach
Jim Calhoun's program, led by such stars as
Ray Allen,
Richard "Rip" Hamilton,
Caron Butler and
Emeka Okafor, averaged nearly 26 wins a year
during that time span, won numerous Big East regular season and
tournament championships, and claimed the National Championship in
both
1999 and
2004.
Syracuse won its first national title in 2003, led by coach Boeheim
and freshman
Carmelo Anthony. The
conference got a record eight teams into the
NCAA Men's
Tournament in 2006 and matched their own record in
2008. At
the start of the 2008-2009 season, many sports analysts predicted
that the conference would surpass the record by sending 10 teams to
the tournament. When the brackets were revealed, seven made it, but
three of them (Louisville, Pittsburgh and Connecticut) gained #1
seeds, and Louisville earned the top seed overall. Another four
teams made either the NIT or the College Basketball
Invitational.
The conference has a number of former players currently playing in
the
National Basketball Association with some of
the most recent being
Allen Iverson,
Ray Allen,
Caron
Butler,
Carmelo Anthony,
Ryan Gomes,
Austin Croshere,
Richard "Rip" Hamilton,
Ben Gordon,
Emeka
Okafor,
Troy Murphy,
Hakim Warrick,
Quincy
Douby,
Randy Foye,
Kyle Lowry,
Steve
Novak,
Rudy Gay,
Matt Carroll,
Hilton Armstrong,
Josh Boone,
Jake
Voskuhl,
Kevin Ollie,
Etan Thomas,
Samuel
Dalembert,
Charlie
Villanueva,
Donte Greene,
Ron Artest,
Chris
Quinn,
Jason Hart,
Tim Thomas,
Aaron Gray,
Wilson
Chandler,
Jeff Green,
Joe Alexander,
Marcus Williams,
Jonny Flynn,
Terrence Williams, and
Earl Clark.
Women's basketball
Big East
women's basketball is
nearly as powerful as the conference's men's programs. UConn coach
Geno Auriemma has led his women's team
to six national championships (including four between 2000 and
2004) and three undefeated seasons (1995, 2002 and 2009). 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
2007 national
runner-up Rutgers, and
2001 national champion Notre Dame, the Big East has emerged as one
of the major powers in
women's college
basketball.
In 2009 two Big East schools met in the
national championship game (Connecticut and Louisville) and the
South Florida women's basketball team defeated the University
of Kansas
to become the WNIT
Champions.
Football
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 early years the University of Miami dominated, winning nine 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 and
earning a number 2 national ranking in 1999.
West Virginia and
Syracuse were the only other teams to win
conference titles during the 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.
Initially, Syracuse University was in place
to make the jump instead of Virginia Tech
, but in 2003, the governor of Virginia
put pressure on the ACC to ensure that Virginia Tech was taken over Syracuse. Syracuse was left
to remain in the Big East.
Temple
was the long time doormat of the league, barely ever able to draw
enough fans fill the bottom sections of Veterans Stadium
or Lincoln Financial Field
. At times Temple's only contribution
seemed to be a means for fans in
Philadelphia to see national powerhouses
Miami and Virgina Tech when they had to come play Temple at home.
Despite the conference's existence being at stake from this
defection of members the conference still was compelled to expel
the Owls voluntarily in 2004.
The
universities that replaced them were Louisville, USF and Cincinnati from Conference
USA. The league also invited the University of
Connecticut to play football a year earlier than
planned.
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.
Another
former member for football only was Temple
. Unlike other football only members in the
past, they did not gain full membership in the Big East - due to
objections from crosstown rivals Villanova (who do not play
football in the Big East). After 14 seasons of mostly poor
performance, Temple was kicked out of the conference following the
2004 season. They currently play football in the
Mid-American Conference (for that
sport only), and are the first school to leave a BCS conference to
later join a non-BCS conference.
In 2006,
West Virginia,
Louisville,
and
Rutgers all
entered November undefeated. However, they did not stay that way,
as in a trio of exciting games over the next month, Louisville
defeated West Virginia 44–34, Rutgers defeated Louisville 28–25,
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
Wake
Forest and a win by West Virginia over
Georgia Tech
in the
Gator Bowl. Louisville would
finish the season ranked 6th, West Virginia 10th, and Rutgers 12th
in the final AP Poll, once again silencing some doubters.
In 2007,
USF, rose to
#2 in the
BCS rankings.
They lost their next three games, however, to drop out of the
rankings. They eventually finished the season #21 in the final BCS
polls. The Connecticut Huskies, getting as high as #13, and West
Virginia remained in the top 25. Cincinnati also rose as high as
#15 in the rankings eventually finishing the season with 10 wins
and a #17 ranking. Connecticut lost subsequent games and dropped
substantially in the rankings, ultimately finishing 25th. On the
final day of the season, Pittsburgh upset #2 WVU 13–9 in the 100th
edition of the
Backyard Brawl to give
the Huskies a share of the conference championship, while WVU was
stopped on the doorstep of the
BCS National Championship
Game. In bowl games, WVU upset the Big 12 Champion Oklahoma in
the Fiesta Bowl, despite having lost their highly touted coach,
Rich Rodriguez to Michigan less than a month before the game. West
Virginia finished the season ranked #6 and Cincinnati finished
ranked #17.
Big East Football Champions
- No official championship awarded in 1991 and 1992, as the
conference did not start full league play until 1993.
Bowl affiliations
- Notes on bowl game selection
- † The Big East's BCS representative is not tied
directly to a specific BCS Bowl. It is selected to a bowl in the
same manner as an at-large team. The BCS may choose select a second
team to play in another BCS bowl game.
- ‡ The Gator Bowl has first selection after the
BCS between 2006 and 2009, and the Gator Bowl must select a Big
East school twice during that four-year span. During the two
seasons during which the Gator Bowl opts not to select a Big East
team, but rather a Big 12 team,
then the highest non-BCS selection goes to the Sun Bowl. A Big East
team must be selected to one of the two bowls but cannot be
selected to both.
- Notre Dame is eligible to be chosen in lieu of a Big East team
for any non-BCS bowl game. In a separate rule specific only to
Notre Dame that doesn't affect the Big East's BCS representative,
Notre Dame is eligible to receive a BCS automatic berth if they
finish within the Top 8 of the BCS Rankings.
Conference facilities
| School |
Football stadium |
Capacity |
Basketball arena |
Capacity |
| Cincinnati |
Nippert Stadium |
35,097 |
Fifth Third Arena |
13,176 |
| Connecticut |
Rentschler Field |
40,000 |
Gampel Pavilion
XL
Center
|
10,167
16,294
|
| DePaul |
non-football school |
|
Allstate Arena (men)
Sullivan
Athletic Center (women)
|
18,500
3,000
|
| Georgetown |
see Patriot
League1 |
|
Verizon Center (men)
McDonough
Gymnasium (women)
|
20,600
2,500
|
| Louisville |
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium 2 |
42,000 |
Freedom Hall |
18,865 |
| Marquette |
non-football school |
|
Bradley Center (men)
Al McGuire
Center (women)
|
18,717
4,000
|
| Notre Dame |
see Division
I-FBS independents1 |
|
Purcell Pavilion
at the Edmund P. Joyce
Center |
9,149 |
| Pittsburgh |
Heinz Field |
65,050 |
Petersen Events Center |
12,508 |
| Providence |
non-football school |
|
Dunkin' Donuts Center (men)
Alumni
Hall (women)
|
12,993
2,603
|
| Rutgers |
Rutgers Stadium 6 |
52,454 |
Louis Brown Athletic Center  |
8,000 |
St.
John's |
non-football school |
|
Madison Square Garden (some men games) &
Carnesecca
Arena (men & women) 3
|
19,522
6,008
|
| Seton Hall |
non-football school |
|
Prudential Center (men)
Walsh Gymnasium
(women)
|
18,000
2,600
|
| USF |
Raymond James Stadium |
65,000 |
USF Sun Dome |
11,324 |
| Syracuse |
Carrier Dome |
50,000 |
Carrier Dome 5 |
33,000 |
| Villanova |
see Colonial
Athletic Association1 |
|
Wachovia Center
The
Pavilion
4
|
21,600
6,500
|
| West Virginia |
Mountaineer Field |
60,000 |
WVU Coliseum |
14,000 |
Notes:
1 Football stadiums for Georgetown, Notre Dame, and
Villanova are not "conference facilities" as those universities are
not members of Big East Football.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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 occurred again in
2009, with
Villanova playing (and winning) its first two tournament games at
Wachovia.
5 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.
6 Late in 2006, Rutgers added approximately 3000
temporary end zone seats that remained for the 2007 season (total
45,000). In 2008, Rutgers began a stadium expansion project which
is expected to increase capacity to over 55,000 seats and add
luxury and club seats. The premium seating is projected to be ready
for the 2008 season and the additional 12,000 end zone seats are
expected for the 2009 season. The stadium is also expected to
receive a new name as part of the financing package depends on a
name sponsorship.
Rivalries
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 |
| 1979/80 |
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 |
|
| 1989/90 |
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/Miami |
| 1996/97 |
Boston College/Villanova |
Boston College |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Virginia Tech/Miami/Syracuse |
| 1997/98 |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Syracuse |
| 1998/99 |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Connecticut/Rutgers |
Connecticut |
Syracuse† |
| 1999/00 |
Syracuse/Miami |
St. John's |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Virginia Tech† |
| 2000/01 |
Boston College (east)/Notre Dame (west) |
Boston College |
Connecticut/Notre Dame |
Connecticut |
Miami† |
| 2001/02 |
Connecticut (east)/Pittsburgh (west) |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Miami† |
| 2002/03 |
Syracuse & Pittsburgh (west)/ Connecticut & Boston
College (east) |
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† |
| 2007/08 |
Georgetown |
Pittsburgh |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
West Virginia†/Connecticut |
| 2008/09 |
Louisville |
Louisville |
Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Cincinnati† |
†Received the Conference's BCS (or Alliance Bowl)
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