The Villanova Wildcats and Xavier Musketeers—ranked No. 3 and No. 5 in the Associated Press Top 25, respectively—dominated the Big East regular season. However, part of the beauty of March is the fact teams like DePaul and St. John’s have the opportunity to create some madness of their own in the conference tournament.
An automatic berth in the NCAA tournament awaits the winner of the Big East tournament that started Wednesday in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
While the league’s top six seeds all received first-round byes into Thursday’s quarterfinals, on Wednesday, No. 8 Georgetown faced off with No.