Big East Conference

St. John's University playing baseball against Georgetown University

This is a list of colleges and universities who play sports in the Big East Conference:

• University of Cincinnati
• University of Connecticut
• DePaul University
• Georgetown University
• University of Louisville
• Marquette University
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Pittsburgh (often called "Pitt")
• Providence College
• Rutgers University
• St. John's University
• Seton Hall University
• University of South Florida
• Syracuse University
• Villanova University
• West Virginia University

Of the current 16 members, only eight play football in the conference:

• Cincinnati
• Connecticut
• Louisville
• Pitt
• Rutgers
• South Florida
• Syracuse
• West Virginia

Notre Dame also plays at the highest level in football, but is independent—not part of any conference. Georgetown and Villanova play football at a lower level; the other schools do not play football at all.

Membership changes

Three schools have announced that they will leave for other conferences. Pitt and Syracuse will join the Atlantic Coast Conference, while West Virginia will join the Big 12 Conference. West Virginia is now set to join the Big 12 in July 2012. Pitt and Syracuse will join the ACC in either 2013 or 2014; the exact date is not known now.

The Big East is replacing West Virginia in its football conference with Temple University for the 2012 season. Temple will join for all sports in July 2013. At the same time, four other schools—the University of Houston, University of Memphis, Southern Methodist University (SMU), and the University of Central Florida (UCF)—will join the conference in all sports, and Boise State University and San Diego State University will join for football only. The United States Naval Academy, known for sports purposes as Navy, will join for football only in 2015.

References

• "Big East Conference". bigeast.com. http://www.bigeast.org/. Retrieved 2008-06-28.