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While basketball prominence may not seem relevant to the conference or any of the universities’ Catholic identity to some, Fr. In fact, from 1980–2013, only the Atlantic Coast Conference has won more. Since 2013, when the ‘new’ BIG EAST was formed, one of its current members, Villanova, has already won an additional national championship.

In total, the ‘old’ BIG EAST conference won seven national championships before the Catholic Seven left to form the ‘new’ BIG EAST. One by Georgetown in 1984 and one by Villanova in 1985. In the conference’s first six years, it claimed two national championships. The following year Villanova joined, adding an additional Catholic university to the conference. Holy Cross in Massachusetts was also invited to join the conference that year but declined. The conference was started by seven universities, five of them Catholic. The BIG EAST’s Catholic roots date back to 1979. The history of the BIG EAST’s Catholic roots “All of us really see that participation in athletics can be an important way for young people to develop into the kinds of human beings that we hope they will be,” Fr. “We all share a common worldview, and that includes first of all being Catholic institutions who believe that athletics is an important part of the development of our students,” said Dominican Father Brian Shanley, president of Providence College, regarding the Catholic seven - the seven Catholic universities that left the old BIG EAST conference to form the new one. Truth be told, even though many don’t like the ‘new’ BIG EAST anywhere near as much as the ‘old’ BIG EAST, both renditions of the conference share a common theme outside of their name: they both consisted of mostly Catholic colleges and universities. The BIG EAST had six teams in the 2018 tournament, leading the way with two No. The BIG EAST of today isn’t too shabby either. College hoops fans reminisce about the days when Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing battled rivals Syracuse, Villanova, and Connecticut. Historically, the old BIG EAST is considered to be one of the most dominant and competitive men’s college basketball conferences in the history of the sport.