INDIANAPOLIS – It would be exaggeration to declare one man, Jay Wright, saved the reconfigured Big East. Maybe not by much.
By making Villanova a power in college basketball, the coach made the conference nationally relevant. It was a gamble when the so-called Catholic 7 broke away from the Big East’s football schools, propped up by a new Fox sports network, FS1.
In college football, it is the Power 5. In basketball, it is a Power 6.
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"Without question, the ‘new’ Big East would not be where it is today without Jay and Villanova leading the way," commissioner Val Ackerman said Thursday in a statement.