Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
| Big East Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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| Conference Basketball Championship | |
The 2008 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament trophy
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| Sport | College basketball |
| Conference | Big East Conference |
| Number of teams | 10 |
| Format | Single-elimination tournament |
| Current stadium | Madison Square Garden |
| Current location | New York City |
| Played | 1980–present |
| Last contest | 2016 |
| Current champion | Seton Hall Pirates |
| Most championships | Connecticut Huskies, Georgetown Hoyas (7) |
| Official website | BigEast.org |
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Madison Square Garden (1983–present) Hartford Civic Center (1982) Carrier Dome (1981) Providence Civic Center (1980) |
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| Host locations | |
| New York City (1983–present) Hartford, Connecticut (1982) Syracuse, New York (1981) Providence, Rhode Island (1980) |
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The Big East Men's Basketball Tournament is the championship tournament of the Big East Conference in men's basketball. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Since 1983, the tournament has been held in Madison Square Garden, New York City. As such, the tournament is the longest running conference tournament at any one site in all of college basketball.
In 2011, Connecticut, led by Kemba Walker, became the first and only team in the Big East Tournament to ever win five games in five consecutive days to win the championship.
The 2009 tournament featured a six-overtime game in the quarterfinals between the Connecticut Huskies and the Syracuse Orange, in which Syracuse prevailed, 127–117. The game, the second longest in NCAA history, started on the evening of March 12 and ended nearly four hours later in the early morning of March 13.
Only two players have achieved repeat MVP honors: Georgetown's Patrick Ewing (1984–1985) and Louisville's Peyton Siva (2012–2013).
As part of the deal in which the original Big East split into the "new" Big East and the American Athletic Conference, the "new" Big East retained the rights to the conference tournament even though The American is the legal successor of the old Big East.
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