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Article: Big East basketball needs Irish
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 31, 2003
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The Big East Conference's future continues to rumble like a summer
thunderstorm. The only thing the league knows about its future to
date is that talk is cheap. Or, it's cheaper than whatever is about
to come down. The not-so-whispered desire of the Big East football
schools to break with the basketball-based partners remains a goal.
Whether it happens may depend on how deep into their pockets the
pigskin half-dozen decide to dig.
Sources in the league say the Providence Five do not want a
divorce. They want to continue playing Syracuse and Connecticut - to
name last season's NCAA champ and the team projected early to win the
2004 title.
There's a lot of discussion taking place within the ...