Big East Conference is an inter collegiate athletic conference that has the membership of 17 universities of Northeast, Southeast and Midwest US. The Big East Conference along with its members compete in the NCAA athletic events. The Big East Conference has eight schools sponsoring and participating in the Division- I football competition and the FBS. All these events are considered to be some of the most challenging levels of the competition.
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Big East Conference was introduced in the year 1979. It deals primarily with basketball. Besides basketball, the other athletic events in Big East Conference comprise sport events like the following:
- Baseball
- Women's and Men's Basketball
- Women's and Men's Soccer
- Volleyball
- Field Hockey
- Women's and Men's Indoor and Outdoor track
- Football
- Women's and Men's Swimming and Diving
- Women's and Men's Tennis
- Women's Rowing
- Women's and Men's Golf
- Women's and Men's Cross Country
- Women's Lacrosse
- Softball
The American universities which are the members of the Big East Conference are:
- West Virginia University
- University of Cincinnati
- Marquette University Milwaukee
- DePaul University Chicago
- Syracuse University
- University of Notre Dame South Bend
- Georgetown University Washington
- St. John's University Queens
- Providence College
- University of Louisville
- University of Connecticut Storrs
- Rutgers University New Brunswick
- University of South Florida Tampa
- Seton Hall University South Orange
- Villanova University
- University of Pittsburgh
