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Ed Cooley

Ed Cooley Joins Fellow Big East Coaches Jay Wright, Chris Mack and Kevin Willard on America’s Pregame on FS1

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Ed Cooley will be one of 4 Big East basketball head coaches to appear on the Fox Sports 1 show “America’s Pregame” on Wednesday. The show will air at 5pm EDT on Fox Sports 1. The other Big East coaches on the show will be Villanova’s Jay Wright, Xavier’s Chris Mack and Seton Hall’s Kevin Willard.

Also appearing on the show Wednesday will be UFC figher Miesha Tate and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. The show is hosted by Mike Hill and Molly McGrath and airs weeknights at 5pm EST. McGrath was the sideline reporter at the 2015 Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden.

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Big East News, Schedule

2015-16 Big East Season to Open on December 30th and 31st; TV Marathon Moved to January 2nd

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The first two years of the newly configured Big East opened the league season with a marathon tip off on New Year’s Eve. That will change a bit in year 3 as the college football playoff has monopolized New Year’s Eve and the Big East and Fox Sports 1 smartly don’t want to try to compete. While some teams will in fact open their Big East schedules on December 31st, the Fox Sports 1 marathon of games won’t take place until January 2nd. That means some teams will have a very tight turnaround between league games 1 and 2, including the Friars. There are also some games being played on December 30th.

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General News

Providence to Host Illinois for Inaugural 2015 Gavitt Tipoff Games

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Jon Rothstein is reporting that Providence will host Illinois as part of the inaugural Gavitt Games series announced in May 2014 between the Big East and Big Ten conferences. Its fitting that Providence will be one of the Big East teams participating and hosting a game on Dave Gavitt Court at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center.

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Big East Tournament, Kris Dunn

Kris Dunn Big East Tournament Highlights via FriarTV

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Great stuff from FriarTV to put together this Dunn highlight package from the two Big East Tournament games:

Big East News

2015 Big East Tournament Announcer Pairings Revealed

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Fox Sports has released the announcer pairings for the 2015 Big East Tournament. You’ll notice that Bill Raftery is not calling the semifinals or finals with Gus Johnson. The reason for that is that Raft will be calling the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago. There will also be a studio show hosted by Rob Stone that will air all week long from Madison Square Garden. Joining Stone in the studio will be analysts Kevin O’Neill, Donny Marshall and Tarik Turner. All Big East Tournament games will air on Fox Sports 1 and streamed on Fox Sports GO.

Here are the announcer pairings for all 9 Big East Tournament games:

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