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BIG EAST Men's Basketball Begins 2025-26 With Nine-Game Slate

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NEW YORK - BIG EAST Men's Basketball begins the 2025-26 season on Monday, Nov. 3 with a slate of nine games.

Preseason favorite and defending regular season and tournament champion St. John's opens up at home against Quinnipiac from Carnesecca Arena at 6:30 p.m. ET. Jason Benetti and Bill Raftery have the call on FS1.

Seven games will stream live on ESPN+ as part of the league's new six-year digital media rights agreement. ESPN and the BIG EAST Conference have a relationship that spans more than three decades. The BIG EAST signed its first national television deal with ESPN in 1980, beginning a partnership that ran through 2013.