Special to BIG EAST.com
NEW YORK – Last season the BIG EAST reached the highest of heights in college basketball when Villanova claimed the national title with a magical March run that ended with a storybook 77-74 win over North Carolina in the championship game.
But, BIG EAST Commissioner Val Ackerman declared that the Wildcats’ triumph was not the culmination of the conference reclaiming its spot as one of the premier leagues in the game, but more the beginning of a new era of glory for the conference in both men’s and women’s basketball.
“There was great satisfaction that we did it and it did not take long.