The 11 member schools of the Big East Conference have unanimously approved Black Lives Matter uniform patches for men's and women's basketball in the upcoming 2020-21 season, the conference announced Wednesday in a press release.
The Big East also announced its support for the efforts of Coaches for Action (CFA), a coalition of 21 ethnic minority Big East men’s basketball assistant coaches formed to help raise awareness in the fight against racism and to develop a sustainable action plan to dismantle prejudice, discrimination and oppression in Black, Brown, Indigenous and minoritized communities.
“We are proud that all eleven of our schools support the effort to bring attention through Big East basketball to the Black Lives Matter movement and its goal of a more racially just world,” said Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman.