2020-21 Big East Season Preview

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports Following the longest and arguably the most trying offseason in the history of the sport, the Big East Conference returns to play on Wednesday with seven of the league’s 11 teams in action.

I suppose we should pause and immediately address the elephant in the room. Why are only seven teams playing after having such a long offseason? The other four, UConn Huskies, Creighton Bluejays, DePaul Blue Demons and Seton Hall Pirates are currently in various stages of the two-week COVID-19 shutdown.

Unfortunately, that trend will likely remain a constant throughout the college basketball season, as a national surge or “third wave” of the virus makes it way through the…