The 2022 Big East tournament has the potential to live up to the high standard set in previous years by the event inside Madison Square Garden.
The return of the Connecticut Huskies to a Big East tournament with a full crowd could energize the "World's Most Famous Arena" to the levels it reached during the program's first era of Big East basketball. UConn returned to the Big East in 2021, but there were still restrictions in place on crowds.
UConn won seven Big East tournaments in the first iterations of the Big East, but since it left, the Villanova Wildcats have been the dominant program.