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Bill Reynolds: Big East thrives with football in rear-view mirror

PROVIDENCE — Xavier came here on Saturday as one of the top teams in this new Big East Conference.

Complete with the conference’s new reality.

Or where have you gone Syracuse and UConn?

An old conference turns its lonely eyes to you.

But this is the new Big East, the one where one of the top teams in the country is Xavier, a small Catholic school in Cincinnati, a team that came into The Dunk on Saturday afternoon to play the Friars.

This is the new Big East, where you couldn’t find a football if you had a slew of detectives working for you.