Best not to make a boastful claim without first checking the facts.
Memory, tinged by sentiment, can lead anyone astray, as a recent article in the New York Times proved, making the parochial but understandable assertion that the Big East, which began play in 1979-80, “became the center of the college basketball universe in the early 1980s.”
Only true in the sense New Yorkers think their city is the center of the civilized universe, and what’s celebrated there must be the best there is.
More than half of the basketball-first Big East’s original members were located in the New York metropolitan area – Syracuse, UConn, Seton Hall and St.