Today, for the first time in seven years, UConn is officially a member of the Big East.
On July 1, 2013, the group of schools known as The Catholic Seven made their break with the football schools in the conference and invited Butler, Creighton, and Xavier to form the 10 team league that you have known and loved for the past seven years. While a formidable basketball power, Connecticut was left in the American Athletic Conference because that’s where the football schools were, and the Huskies were devoted to taking the best opportunity for them to bolster that program.