Even without home-and-home pairings against Notre Dame, the Big East represents a significant step up in conference competition for UConn in the 2020-21 season and beyond. Especially in the last two seasons, the weakness of the Huskies’ AAC schedule significantly weighed down their March resume and failed to pose the kind of in-game challenges they needed to get ready for the NCAA Tournament.
It won’t be all that shocking if UConn continues to run the table in their new conference, but doing so will certainly be a tougher task. The Big East boasts a handful of formidable opponents where an off night or bad shooting performance could hand the Huskies a conference loss.