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 tournament.
The 2008 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament trophy
Jeff Green of the Georgetown Hoyas attempts to pass during the 2007 Big East Championship game against the Pitt Panthers.
Patrick Ewing
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Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. is a Jamaican-American professional basketball coach and former player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Assoc
Big East men's basketball tournament
…four days as an underdog in each contest, to win its record eighth title. Georgetown became the first eighth-seeded team to win the championship, and Patrick Ewing became the first person to win the championship as both a player and a head coach. In 2024, UConn won the championship for the eighth time, tying it…
Ewing in 2021
President Ronald Reagan with John Thompson and Ewing after Georgetown won the 1984 NCAA Championship.
Ewing played 15 seasons (1985–2000) with the New York Knicks.
Ewing's college jersey in the Basketball Hall of Fame museum in Springfield, Massachusetts.