NEW YORK – The bracket for the 2019 BIG EAST Softball Championship presented by Jeep has been finalized with St. John’s, DePaul, Providence and Villanova securing their berths all under first-year head coaches. The championship will take place at The Ballpark at Rosemont in suburban Chicago for the sixth-straight year from May 10-11. The winner of the conference tournament receives the league’s automatic bid into the 2019 NCAA Softball Championship.
Top-seeded St. John’s will take on No. 4 seed Villanova in the first semifinal game on Friday at 1 p.m. ET, while No. 2 seed DePaul will face No.