The 2017-18 season begins with eight BIG EAST teams in action on Friday night and DePaul playing its first game in the new Wintrust Arena on Saturday.
The first BIG EAST contest to tip has Seton Hall, ranked No. 23 in the AP and USA Today polls, hosting Fairleigh Dickinson at 6:30 p.m. ET. It’s the first game of an FS2 doubleheader. In the second tilt, No. 6/6 Villanova meets Columbia at the Wells Fargo Center at 8:30 p.m. The Wildcats will play most of their games at Wells Fargo this season while their campus home, The Pavilion, undergoes renovations.