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Will UConn’s return to the Big East spark major conference realignment?

In the midst of the summer, college sports fans always hunger for some semblance of news to tide them over to the opening of football season.

Last month, they got it.

The University of Connecticut announced that its athletic programs would be rejoining the Big East Conference, the association it was a part of from 2004-2013. The move makes some sense for UConn fans who are hungry for the Huskies to be reunited with former basketball rivals like St. John’s, Villanova and Georgetown after the school’s membership in the American Athletic Conference made these rivalries nonexistent in recent years.