Villanova’s 72-69 defeat of UConn on Feb. 9 gave cause for celebration throughout the school’s campus. That was certainly the case in Caleb Daniels’ room.

The brackets are being filled, the picks are being made and the TV schedules are being set.

Allow UConn to reintroduce itself.

Some lower-seeded semifinal teams made things interesting, but it’s the BIG EAST’s two best teams that will be competing for a conference tournament title Monday.

It’s a time of year in college basketball to expect the unexpected, and that mantra was more than apparent in the quarterfinal round of the BIG EAST Tournament on Saturday. Both a No. 5 and No. 6 seed will be playing in Sunday’s semifinal with spots in Monday’s title game—and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament—on the line.

March. It’s here.

Tensions are sky-high for some BIG EAST teams right now.

Voters can’t really go wrong with either of the top options in the BIG EAST Player of the Year race this season.

See any bubbles in the air?

You truly don’t know just what you’re going to get in a week of BIG EAST women’s basketball this season.

What can you claim on your resume?

Can you feel it?

The point of no return in determining the BIG EAST contenders from the pretenders has passed.

After a chaotic period following numerous COVID-19-related postponements and cancellations among BIG EAST teams, more games—hopefully—looked to be played on-schedule in the near future than in the past couple of weeks.

As the world approaches Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on the sports world is still zero fun.