The Atlantic 10 Conference ( A-10 ) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA) Division I . The A-10's member schools are located mostly on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States : Illinois , Massachusetts , Missouri , New York , North Carolina , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , Virginia , and Washington, D.C.
75-504: AEC Tournament may refer to the championship of any sport sponsored by the Atlantic 10 Conference , including the following: America East Conference men's basketball tournament America East Conference baseball tournament America East Conference women's basketball tournament Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
150-474: A failure to make a strong effort to field a competitive team, but rejoined in 2012 after seriously upgrading its football program and intended to become a full Big East member in 2013. The unusual structure of the Big East, with the "football" and "non-football" schools, led to instability in the conference. The Big East was one of the most severely impacted conferences during conference realignment of 2005 and
225-459: A five-year media deal with its current affiliates, ESPN, CBS, and NBC. The deal would expand basketball coverage and revenue for the schools. The first year of the new contract is the 2024-2025 season and runs through the 2028-29 season. In late February 2024, it was announced that the 2024-25 season for UMass sports will be the last season as members of the Atlantic 10. The Minutemen will rejoin
300-399: A full member, and Rutgers, Temple , Virginia Tech , and West Virginia as football-only members. Rutgers and West Virginia upgraded to full Big East membership in 1995, while Virginia Tech did the same in 2000. Notre Dame also joined as a non-football member effective in 1995. Temple football was kicked out after the 2004 season due to what was deemed by the other football-playing members
375-592: A member of the CAA from 1983 to 2001, to rejoin for football only, because of UR's long-standing in-state rivalries with William & Mary and James Madison. UR accepted the invitation, taking the A-10 football conference below the NCAA minimum of six. Shortly after this, the A-10 football conference opted to disband, with all of its members becoming charter members of the CAA football conference. This league continues to operate under
450-764: A new football conference sponsored by the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA; now known as the Coastal Athletic Association ). In 2012, Butler joined the conference after leaving the Horizon League and VCU joined after leaving the CAA. Conference realignment in 2013 saw the departure of Temple to the American Athletic Conference , Butler and Xavier to the reconfigured Big East , and Charlotte to Conference USA . George Mason joined from
525-469: A number of intense rivalries within the Atlantic 10, with rivalries that carry over from the Big 5 which includes Saint Joseph's, La Salle, and Temple (now in the American Athletic Conference ). URI and UMass also have a long-standing rivalry. St. Bonaventure and Duquesne also maintain a rivalry that predates their affiliation with the conference. UMass and Temple also had a basketball rivalry while John Chaney
600-508: A postseason tournament was held; the first recorded season of full league play was 1993, with Boston College, UConn, Georgetown, Providence, Syracuse , and Villanova participating. Georgetown left Big East field hockey after the 1994 season, and was replaced by incoming Big East member Rutgers. The next change in field hockey membership came in 2005, when BC left for the ACC and was replaced by Louisville. Georgetown returned its field hockey program to
675-425: A result, both leagues agreed that only the "new" Big East would sponsor the sport, and that all American members with field hockey programs would become associates. Accordingly, the Big East field hockey conference would now be made up of Big East full members Georgetown, Providence, and Villanova; American members UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, and Temple; and Old Dominion, otherwise a member of Conference USA . Following
750-633: A total of 17 Big East Conference Men's Swimming & Diving Championships. Out of the current members, Xavier has won a total of six Big East Conference Men's Swimming & Diving Championships, Georgetown has won three, while Seton Hall and Villanova have each won two. Villanova men's cross country team won three straight NCAA National Championships in 1966, 1967 and 1968, as well as a fourth in 1970. They also finished 2nd in 1962 and 1969. Providence men's cross country team have also finished in second in 1981 and 1982. The Big East began sponsoring field hockey in 1989, but conference records only indicate that
825-464: A transition from Division I-AA to Division I-A football (now Division I FBS) that was completed in 2002 . In 2004 , UConn, already a member of the Big East for other sports, became a football member of that conference. The other schools all remained in the A-10 football conference until the management change after the 2006 season. The 2005 move of Northeastern University , a football-only member of
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#1732786919273900-491: A varsity football team in the top-level Division I FBS . Butler , Georgetown , and Villanova do operate football programs in the second-level Division I FCS . The conference also has four associate members in field hockey, and one in men's and women's lacrosse. The original Big East Conference was founded in 1979, when Providence College basketball coach Dave Gavitt spearheaded an effort to assemble an east coast basketball-centric collegiate athletic conference. The core of
975-704: Is a collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in 10 men's sports and 12 women's sports. Headquartered in New York City, the 11 full-member schools are primarily located in Northeast and Midwest metropolitan areas. The conference was officially recognized as a Division I multi-sport conference on August 1, 2013, and since then conference members have won NCAA national championships in men's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, men's lacrosse, and men's soccer. Val Ackerman
1050-478: Is credited with the initial branding and naming work for the conference. The "high point" of the original conference is widely considered to be the 1985 NCAA tournament, in which Georgetown, St. Johns, and Villanova all made the Final Four, and Villanova defeated Georgetown to win the national championship. The conference remained largely unchanged until 1991, when it began to sponsor football, adding Miami as
1125-440: Is made up of charter members Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, and Villanova, as well as Denver . NCAA regulations state that there must be six teams for a league to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and since Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Seton Hall, and Xavier only field club teams, the Big East had to look elsewhere. Both Denver and Johns Hopkins were rumored as targets for potential invitation and Denver
1200-416: Is made up of private, Catholic institutions. Despite the name, there are 15 full-time members in the conference; three affiliate members participate in women's field hockey and men's lacrosse . The conference's commissioner since 2008 is Bernadette McGlade. In fall, 2023, the A-10 moved its headquarters from Newport News, Virginia , to Washington, D.C. The Atlantic 10 Conference was founded in 1975 as
1275-461: Is the commissioner. The conference was formed after the "Catholic Seven" members of the original Big East Conference elected to split from the football-playing schools in order to start a new conference focused on basketball. These schools ( DePaul , Georgetown , Marquette , Providence , Seton Hall , St. John's , and Villanova ) had announced their decision in December 2012. In March 2013,
1350-509: The 2016–17 season , seven of the ten schools (70%) received bids to that year's NCAA Tournament , a record for the highest percentage of members ever sent to one tournament from a single conference. Since realignment, Big East schools have combined for a total of 50 NCAA Tournament bids, five Final Four appearances, and four national championships. As of 2023–24 season All full Big East member schools field men's soccer teams. Akron became an associate member in 2023. Big East men's lacrosse
1425-496: The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten Conference . The other named schools stayed in Big East women's lacrosse until The American began a women's lacrosse league in 2018–19. Full members (non-football) Assoc. member (Other sports) Other Conference Despite the reconfiguration of the conference, the Big East has still been widely considered as one of the "Power 6" basketball conferences. Beginning with
1500-455: The Big East in 1980 with Pittsburgh following in 1982. Temple joined the A-10 that year. Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1991 (effectively in 1993), and three A-10 members joined the Big East as football-only members: Rutgers, West Virginia, and Temple (only Rutgers and West Virginia would later join the Big East as full members in 1995). Virginia Tech joined the A-10 in 1995 as a result of
1575-952: The Eastern Collegiate Basketball League ( ECBL ) and began conference play in 1976. At that time, basketball was its only sport. After its first season, it added sports other than basketball and changed its name to the Eastern Athletic Association . However, despite its official names, it was popularly known as the Eastern 8 , as it then had eight members (Villanova, Duquesne, Penn State, West Virginia, George Washington, Massachusetts, Pittsburgh, and Rutgers). After changes in membership that saw charter members Villanova and Pittsburgh leave (in 1980 and 1982, respectively) and new members St. Bonaventure (1979), Rhode Island (1980), Saint Joseph's (1982), and Temple (1982) enter, establishing
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#17327869192731650-482: The International Goodwill Games ; and University of Pittsburgh 's Trees Pool , which hosted a total of 17 Big East Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. Out of the current members, Villanova has won a total of 16 Big East Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. All full members of the Big East sponsor women's volleyball. However, during the first season of
1725-547: The Loyola Ramblers - would leave the Missouri Valley Conference and join the A-10 effective July 1, 2022. On May 23, 2022, the addition of men's lacrosse was announced for the 2023 season. The four full members that sponsor the sport (Richmond, St. Bonaventure, Saint Joseph's, UMass) were joined by new affiliate members High Point and Hobart . On December 14, 2023, the conference announced
1800-476: The Mid-American Conference (MAC) as a full member beginning in 2025. The following is a list of the full members of the conference and the year they joined: The "joined" column indicates the calendar year in which each school became an A-10 associate, which for spring sports such as lacrosse is the year before the first season of competition. None of these institutions played football in
1875-550: The Yankee Conference , a Division I-AA (now known as Division I FCS) football-only conference. The move was triggered by a change in NCAA rules that reduced the influence of single-sport conferences over NCAA legislation. The following teams were in the Yankee Conference at the time of its demise: Boston University dropped football after the first season of A-10 football. After the 1999 season, UConn started
1950-417: The "Catholic 7" due to their common religious background, and were motivated in part by a desire to return to Gavitt's original vision of a strong, Northeast -based and basketball-focused conference, and by prospects of a better television deal than they would have received by remaining with the football schools. The move occurred during a limited window in which these non-FBS schools held a voting majority in
2025-572: The 13th sponsored women's sport in 2024–25. In addition to the 15 full members, two Pennsylvania schools, Lock Haven and Saint Francis , are affiliate members in field hockey. High Point and Hobart became men's lacrosse affiliates in July 2022. The Atlantic 10 Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 12 women's NCAA sanctioned sport. Regular-season champions are indicated with "(RS)" and tournament champions with "(T)". The A-10 began sponsoring football in 1997 when it absorbed
2100-567: The 2001 season with Boston College, UConn, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Virginia Tech. The original lineup stayed in place until Virginia Tech and BC left for the ACC, respectively in 2004 and 2005. The conference replaced BC with Loyola (Maryland) for the 2006 season, and the Greyhounds remained an associate member until the school joined the Patriot League , which already sponsored women's lacrosse, in 2013. Originally,
2175-411: The 2010 season. As in the case of field hockey, the 2013 conference split left the Big East and The American with too few lacrosse teams for an automatic NCAA bid. Also in a parallel with field hockey, the two conferences agreed that only the reconfigured Big East would sponsor the sport, with all women's lacrosse teams from The American becoming associate members. The first season of women's lacrosse in
2250-479: The 2014 departure of Louisville and Rutgers for all-sports membership in conferences that sponsored field hockey (respectively the ACC and Big Ten), Big East field hockey operated with six members until Liberty and Quinnipiac joined as associate members in 2016. The only honors listed here are those earned by Big East field hockey members while playing the sport in the conference. In addition to these: Nine Big East members sponsor softball, with Marquette and Xavier as
2325-559: The 2017 season, Butler added varsity women's lacrosse and Denver brought its women's lacrosse team into the league, giving the Big East 10 members in the sport. However, after the 2018 season, the Big East lost all of its women's lacrosse associate members except Denver to the new women's lacrosse conference of The American. The Big East retained its automatic NCAA tournament bid for the 2019 season and beyond by adding Old Dominion, already an associate member in field hockey. On April 16, 2020, Old Dominion announced its women's lacrosse would join
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2400-493: The A-10 during their tenure as full members. After expansion in the Colonial Athletic Association brought that conference to 6 football-playing schools, it was agreed that the CAA would take over management of the Atlantic 10's football conference starting in the 2007–08 school year as the legally separate entity of CAA Football . All the schools on this list (except Boston U. and Connecticut) were in
2475-573: The A-10 football conference when it became CAA Football, but Hofstra and Northeastern discontinued their football programs after the 2009–10 school year. Membership dates include time in the Yankee Conference (which was an all-sports conference from the 1947–48 to 1975–76 seasons, and a football-only conference after that) which merged into the A-10 in the 1997–98 school year. Full members Full members (non-football) Associate members (football only) Assoc. member (list sports) Notes - Virginia Tech did not participate in wrestling. There are
2550-440: The A-10, to the Colonial Athletic Association for basketball and Olympic sports began a chain of events that would lead to the demise of the A-10 football conference, at least under the A-10 banner. At that time, the CAA did not sponsor football, but five of its members in the 2004–05 academic year (Delaware, Hofstra, James Madison, Towson, and William & Mary) were football members of the A-10. The addition of Northeastern gave
2625-618: The A10. Rivals St. Louis and Dayton play each year in basketball for the Arch-Baron Cup. George Washington and George Mason compete annually in the Revolutionary Rivalry across all sports. In the 2021–22 academic year, the Atlantic 10 Conference sponsors championship competition in ten men's and thirteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports, with lacrosse becoming the 10th sponsored men's sport in 2022–23 and women's golf becoming
2700-490: The AAC for the Big East, pending a decision on the future of the school's football program . Many news stories described UConn as "rejoining" the Big East, because UConn was a founding member of the original Big East, but remained with the football-playing members when the conference reorganized as the AAC in 2013. By 2018 however, UConn had seen a dramatic decline in athletic department revenues. Mutual interest between UConn and
2775-524: The American Athletic Conference in the 2021 season (2020–21 school year), essentially swapping places with incoming full member UConn. Both conferences thus maintained the six members required for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Xavier added women's lacrosse in the 2023 season, playing as an independent for its first season before starting full Big East play in 2024. This list includes NCAA championships won by members of
2850-441: The Big East as associate members in that sport. The next changes to Big East associate membership came during the 2015–16 school year. First, on December 8, 2015, the conference announced that Liberty and Quinnipiac would become associate members in field hockey effective with the 2016 season. Then, on May 3, 2016, the Big East announced that Denver, already an affiliate in men's lacrosse, would move its women's lacrosse team into
2925-464: The Big East for the AAC, essentially swapping places with UConn, so both conferences maintained the six members required for an automatic bid. The office of the commissioner of athletics was created in 1979 The following table shows National University rank by U.S. News & World Report as of 2023. Also indicated is membership in the Association of American Universities . Nine of
3000-444: The Big East formed when Providence , St. John's , Georgetown , and Syracuse invited Seton Hall , Connecticut (UConn) , Holy Cross , Rutgers , and Boston College (BC) . Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, and UConn accepted. Gavitt became the Big East's first commissioner, and Villanova and Pittsburgh joined the conference shortly thereafter. PR firm Duffy & Shanley
3075-598: The Big East in 2013, but the conference realigned into the football-sponsoring American Athletic Conference and a new non-football Big East . Temple joined The American. Massachusetts joined them in FBS football with membership in the MAC beginning in the 2012 season and as an FBS independent beginning in 2016. Charlotte, which started a football program in 2013, left for Conference USA and eventually joined The American in 2023. Big East Conference The Big East Conference
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3150-421: The Big East the next year, after which the conference's field hockey membership remained unchanged until the 2013 conference split. Shortly before the split, Old Dominion was set to join the original Big East as a field hockey associate. The conference split left both successor leagues—the reconfigured Big East and The American—with too few field hockey members to qualify for an automatic NCAA tournament berth. As
3225-446: The Big East. Excluded from this list are all national championships earned outside the scope of NCAA competition , including ICSA sailing championships (14 by Georgetown), women's AIAW championships (2 by Old Dominion), equestrian titles (0), and retroactive Helms Athletic Foundation titles (1 by St. John's). Associate members, indicated in italics , are listed with NCAA championships won in their Big East sports while competing in
3300-406: The CAA six schools with football programs, which under NCAA rules allows a conference to sponsor football. Northeastern agreed to join any future CAA football conference, which meant that the A-10 football conference would drop to six members once CAA football began operation. With six football members in place, the CAA decided to start a football conference in 2007. The league then invited Richmond,
3375-885: The CAA, and Davidson from the Southern Conference announced it would join in 2014. The league headquarters is located in Washington, DC . In the Fall of 2023 they relocated the HQ from Newport News, Virginia where it had been located since fall 2009. Prior to that, the headquarters was in Philadelphia , within a few miles of member schools Saint Joseph's and La Salle. The conference currently has media deals with ESPN , CBS Sports Network , NBC Sports , and digital broadcasts with ESPN+. On November 16, 2021, Loyola University Chicago announced that its athletic program -
3450-507: The administration of the multi-sports CAA, now known as the Coastal Athletic Association , as the legally separate entity of CAA Football (in full, the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference ). A-10 charter members Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, West Virginia, and Villanova played I-A football as independents while members of the A-10 in other sports. Villanova became a member of
3525-500: The bulk of the Big East. There is still uncertainty to whether or not Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Seton Hall, UConn, or Xavier will elevate their programs from the club level, or if any other programs will receive lacrosse-only invitations. Big East full member schools Butler, Creighton, Georgetown, Seton Hall, St. John's, UConn, Villanova and Xavier all field men's baseball teams. DePaul and Marquette have never fielded Big East baseball teams, while Providence fielded one until 1999 when it
3600-429: The conference championship was decided solely by league play; a postseason tournament was added starting in the 2007 season with the top four teams qualifying, a format that exists to this day. The next changes in women's lacrosse membership came in the 2009 season, when Cincinnati and Louisville (both of which had only added varsity lacrosse for the 2008 season) brought their teams into the Big East. Villanova followed in
3675-530: The conference—after the defection of certain FBS schools to the ACC but before the effective inclusion of candidate FBS schools to replace them. Negotiations with the other member schools continued in early 2013, and in March, it was reported that the "Catholic 7" schools would leave the conference on June 30, 2013, but that they would retain the Big East Conference name, logos, $ 10 million from
3750-441: The departure of all then-current Big East women's lacrosse associates except Denver. On that same date, the Big East announced that field hockey member Old Dominion would also become a Big East women's lacrosse member in the 2019 season, maintaining Big East women's lacrosse membership at 6 teams and preserving its automatic berth to the NCAA women's tournament. In June 2019, various news outlets reported that UConn would soon leave
3825-402: The early 2010s . In all, 14 member schools announced their departure for other conferences, and 15 other schools announced plans to join the conference (eight as all-sports members, and four for football only). Three of the latter group later backed out of their plans to join (one for all sports, and the other two for football only). These waves of defection and replacement revealed tension between
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#17327869192733900-479: The eleven members of the Big East are private , Catholic institutions. The exceptions are Butler, which is nonsectarian (although it was founded by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) ) and UConn, which is the only public institution. Because the American Athletic Conference did not sponsor lacrosse or field hockey immediately after the Big East split, several schools from The American joined
3975-653: The exceptions. The original Big East first sponsored the sport in the 1990 season. Big East women's swimming & diving is made up of charter members Butler, Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, UConn, Villanova and Xavier (UConn was a charter member of the original Big East, but not of its 2013 version). St. John's cut women's swimming & diving in 2003 due to Title IX , when they also cut men's swimming & diving, football , men's cross country, men's indoor track & field, and men's outdoor track & field and added men's lacrosse. The Big East Conference originally started sponsoring women's swimming & diving in 1981–82,
4050-415: The football-sponsoring and non-football schools that eventually led to the split of the conference in 2013. On December 15, 2012, the Big East's seven non-FBS schools – DePaul , Georgetown , Marquette , Providence , St. John's , Seton Hall , and Villanova – announced that they had voted unanimously to separate from the Big East football-playing schools. The schools splitting away were referred to as
4125-467: The inaugural 2013–14 season , the conference signed a 12-year deal with Fox Sports to televise Big East Conference games, with CBS Sports also sublicensing select games from Fox. In 2014–15 , the Big East had four schools ranked in the top-20 and six schools in the top-30 recruiting classes nationally according to ESPN, Scout, and Rivals rankings. Villanova won the conference's first national championship since realignment in 2016 . One year later, in
4200-412: The league in the 2016–17 school year (2017 season). In addition to the new associate members, full member Butler announced on October 21, 2015, that it would elevate its club team in women's lacrosse to full varsity status in the 2017 season and immediately begin Big East competition. The American Athletic Conference began sponsoring women's lacrosse in the 2019 season (2018–19 school year), which led to
4275-410: The league with 10 members, the conference adopted the current Atlantic 10 name in 1982. Further membership changes saw the league expand to its maximum of 16 members. From 1997 through 2006, the league also operated a football conference ; during that period, more than 20 schools were participating in A-10 competition in at least one sport. This ended when the A-10 football programs all departed to join
4350-458: The merger that created Conference USA . They would then join the Big East as full members in 2000, following the football program which was already a member of the league. Temple remained a football-only member of the Big East until 2004; they would join the MAC for football in 2007 until 2012, and re-joined the Big East in football for the 2012 season. Temple planned to move the rest of its sports into
4425-556: The most prestigious pools in the United States. These pools include: Indiana University Natatorium , which has hosted multiple NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships and multiple United States Olympic Swimming Trials and United States Olympic Diving Trials ; Nassau County Aquatic Center , which has hosted NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships and the International Goodwill Games ; and University of Pittsburgh 's Trees Pool , which hosted
4500-601: The new Big East for women's lacrosse and field hockey, while Cincinnati joined the women's lacrosse league, Denver joined the men's lacrosse league, and Old Dominion joined the field hockey league. The launch of a women's lacrosse league in the Big Ten for the 2015 season caused the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC) to dissolve after the 2014 season; two Southeastern Conference teams that had been ALC members, Florida and Vanderbilt , joined
4575-426: The new Big East had been reported by several sources starting in 2016. On June 24, 2019, the Big East formally approved an invitation for UConn to join the conference. The UConn Board of Trustees accepted the invitation two days later, thus reuniting UConn with several of the schools against whom it competed for 34 years in the old Big East. UConn and the AAC reached a buyout agreement the following month, clearing
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#17327869192734650-401: The new conference purchased the Big East Conference name, logos, basketball records, and the rights to the men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden from the football-playing members of the old Big East, who formed the American Athletic Conference (AAC), which is the old conference's legal successor. Both conferences share 1979 as their founding date, when the original conference
4725-425: The new league at its launch. Additional announcements confirmed their headquarters in New York City, and a 12-year, $ 500 million television contract with Fox Sports and its networks , and a 6-year television contract with CBS and its CBS Sports Network . On June 26, 2013, the new conference hired Val Ackerman , former WNBA president, as the conference's first commissioner. The remaining members of
4800-426: The old conference later announced they would continue as the American Athletic Conference (AAC). Several AAC and former Big East schools however continued playing lacrosse and field hockey with the new Big East Conference in 2013, including Rutgers and Louisville , before moving their programs to the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conferences respectively in 2014–15. AAC members UConn and Temple also both joined
4875-436: The old conference's treasury, and the right to hold their men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden . At a March 20 news conference in New York City, Georgetown President John J. DeGioia , representing this new conference, announced that Butler University and Xavier University , both then members of the Atlantic 10 Conference , as well as Creighton University in the Missouri Valley Conference would also join
4950-439: The reconfigured Big East as associate members in those sports. UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, and Temple joined in both women's lacrosse and field hockey, with Rutgers also joining in men's lacrosse, while Cincinnati joined only in women's lacrosse. Among these schools, Louisville and Rutgers were associates only for one season, as both became full members of conferences that sponsored their remaining Big East sports in 2014—respectively
5025-967: The reconfigured Big East in 2013, Providence was an affiliate member of the America East Conference . The Friars joined Big East volleyball in 2014 after completing their contractual obligation to the America East. The Providence women's cross country team have been crowned NCAA National Champions in 1995 and 2013, as well as finishing 2nd in 1990 and 2012. The Villanova women's cross country team won two straight NCAA National Championships in 2009 and 2010 and six straight NCAA National Championships in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994. Villanova runners also won an individual NCAA National Championship in 1998, as well as placing 3rd in 1995, 2nd in 1996 and 3rd in 2011. The Georgetown women's cross country team were NCAA National Champions in 2011. The Big East began sponsoring women's lacrosse in
5100-410: The reconfigured league in 2014 would thus include Cincinnati, UConn, Georgetown, Louisville, new varsity team Marquette, Rutgers, Temple, and Villanova. The Big East would lose Louisville and Rutgers after that season, respectively to the ACC and Big Ten, replacing them with Florida and Vanderbilt (the only two SEC schools sponsoring the sport) after the demise of the American Lacrosse Conference . For
5175-564: The same season in which the NCAA began sponsoring women's sports. The Big East Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships have been held at some of the most prestigious pools in the United States. These pools include: Indiana University Natatorium , which has hosted multiple NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships and multiple United States Olympic Swimming Trials and United States Olympic Diving Trials ; Nassau County Aquatic Center , which has hosted NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships and
5250-539: The title AEC Tournament . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AEC_Tournament&oldid=1126302162 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Atlantic 10 Conference Although some of its members are state-funded, half of its membership
5325-493: The way for UConn to become a member of the Big East on July 1, 2020. At the time the buyout agreement was reported, UConn announced that its football team would become an FBS independent upon its arrival in the Big East, leaving Temple as the only AAC member in the northeast. UConn's men's & women's hockey teams remain a member of the Hockey East Association . In 2020, Old Dominion's women's lacrosse left
5400-650: Was coaching Temple but it has died down a bit since, and even more so now that Temple has left the conference. Due to both teams sharing the Ram mascot, the Fordham - URI rivalry has increased in recent years as the competitions are heralded as "The Battle of the Rams." The long-standing crosstown rivalry between Richmond and VCU, now known as the Capital City Classic , became a conference rivalry with VCU's arrival in
5475-1044: Was dropped and later replaced with lacrosse. Big East men's swimming & diving is made up entirely of charter conference members, with UConn being a charter member of the 1979 incarnation, Xavier a charter member of the 2013 incarnation, and Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, and Villanova being charter members of both versions. However, UConn announced shortly before rejoining the Big East that it would cut men's swimming & diving along with men's cross country, men's tennis, and women's rowing effective in July 2021. Butler cut men's swimming & diving in 2007, when they also cut lacrosse. St. John's cut men's swimming & diving in 2003 due to Title IX , when they also cut women's swimming & diving, football , men's cross country, men's indoor track & field, and men's outdoor track & field and added men's lacrosse. The Big East Conference originally started sponsoring men's swimming & diving in 1979. The Big East Conference Men's Swimming & Diving Championships have been held at some of
5550-462: Was founded by Dave Gavitt , and the same history through 2013. Three more schools, Butler , Creighton , and Xavier , joined the conference on its July 1, 2013, launch date. In June 2019, the Big East invited the University of Connecticut (UConn) to "re-join" the conference from the AAC, which they did on July 1, 2020. Football is not a sponsored sport, and UConn is the only member with
5625-636: Was ultimately invited to join the Big East as a lacrosse-only member. Denver joined the Big East as one of the hottest teams in the country; at the time of the relaunch of the Big East in July 2013, the Pioneers had made six NCAA Tournament appearances in the previous eight seasons and had appeared in two Final Fours in the previous three seasons. The University of Denver houses most of its other sports in The Summit League ; most of that league's other teams are closer to that school's Denver campus than
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