| Big East Conference | |
|---|---|
| Data | |
| Classification | NCAA Division I FBS |
| Established | 1979 |
| Members | 16 (full) 1 (associate) |
| National championships | 24 |
| Sports fielded | 23 (10 men's, 13 women's) |
| Regions | Northern US, Ohio River Valley Midwest, Southeast US |
| States | 13 - CT, FL, IL,IN, KY, MD, NJ NY, OH,PA, RI, D.C., WV, WI |
| Headquarters | Providence, Rhode Island |
| Locations | |
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The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of seventeen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. The conference's 17 members (16 full-time and 1 associate member) participate in 23 NCAA sports. Eight of the seventeen conference schools are football members and the Big East competes as a BCS conference in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the top level of NCAA competition in that sport (also known by its former designation: Division I-A). Three members have football programs but are not Big East football schools: Georgetown and Villanova compete in the Football Championship Subdivision and Notre Dame plays as an FBS independent.
In basketball, teams currently in the Big East account for 40 all time Final Four appearances and 10 National Championships, numbers only surpassed by the Big Ten and Pac-10 respectively. Of the Big East's 16 full members, 15 (or 93%) have been to the Final Four, by far the most of any conference. The only full member that has never been to the Final Four is South Florida.
