Two looks at the BE: Past and Future

[DanMcQ]

NY Times:
Say Goodbye to the Big East We Used to Know
By GEORGE VECSEY
Published: March 10, 2005

www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/sports/ncaabasketball/10vecsey.html

A good read.


Adding quality to quantity:Reconfigured Big East may lose tradition,
but the level of play it will offer next year figures to be top-notch
By Avani Patel
Tribune staff reporter
March 10, 2005


chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/cs-0503100335mar10,1,6377714.story?coll=cs-college-print

"You say top-heavy or bottom-heavy," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. "Our league will just be heavy."