Big East Conference

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

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Produktbeschreibung

The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 23 NCAA sports. Eight of the seventeen conference schools are football members and the Big East competes as a BCS conference in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision the top level of NCAA competition in that sport. Three members have football programs but are not Big East football schools: Georgetown and Villanova compete in the Football Championship Subdivision and Notre Dame plays as an FBS independent. The other 5 schools discontinued their football programs. The Big East has had all 8 members play in bowl games since re-alignment and has had 7 of 8 teams ranked in the Top 25 since 2003. The last 3 years the Big East has seen the emergence of new national players West Virginia University rising to as high as No. 1 and was ranked in the Top 10 for three-straight years. Also, Big East football has seen an increase in attendance and is enjoying a new, quarter of a billion dollar plus television package that lasts through 2013

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786130672409
• ISBN-10: 6130672403
• Artikelnr.: 28965222