2018–19_Big_East_Conference_men's_basketball_season

2018–19 Big East Conference men's basketball season
2018–19 Big East Conference men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	10
TV partner(s)	CBS, CBSSN, FOX, FS1, FSN
Regular Season
Season Champions	Villanova
Season MVP	Markus Howard, Marquette
Tournament
Champions	Villanova
Runners-up	Seton Hall
Finals MVP	Phil Booth, Villanova
Basketball seasons
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2018–19 Big East Conference men's basketball season

Sports season

The 2018–19 Big East Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2018, followed by the start of the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. This season marked the 40th year in the conference's history, but the sixth as a non-football conference, which officially formed on July 1, 2013. Conference play began in December 2018.

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The 2019 Big East men's basketball tournament was held at Madison Square Garden in New York from March 13 through March 17, 2019. Villanova defeated Seton Hall to win the tournament championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Four Big East schools received bids to the NCAA Tournament (Marquette, Seton Hall, St. John's, and Villanova). Villanova was the only team to make it out the Round of 64 before losing to Purdue in the Round of 32.

Five Big East schools received bids to the National Invitation Tournament (Creighton, Xavier, Georgetown, Providence, and Butler) with only Creighton and Xavier advancing past the 1st Round, with the Bluejays making to the Quarterfinals before losing to TCU.

Marquette guard Markus Howard was named the Big East Player of the Year after leading the Big East in scoring with 25.0 PPG. Georgetown freshman guard James Akinjo was named Big East Freshman of the Year. Villanova head coach Jay Wright was named Big East coach of the year for the sixth time.

Regular season

Honors and awards

Postseason

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Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Overall record	Big East record	Big East titles	NCAA Tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
Butler	LaVall Jordan	Milwaukee	2	21–14	9–9	0	1	0	0
Creighton	Greg McDermott	Iowa State	9	187–94	47–43	0	5	0	0
DePaul	Dave Leitao	Tulsa (asst.)	7	87–99	39–63	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	Patrick Ewing	Charlotte Hornets (asst.)	2	34–29	14–22	0	0	0	0
Marquette	Steve Wojciechowski	Duke (asst.)	5	73–59	31–41	0	1	0	0
Providence	Ed Cooley	Fairfield	8	144–94	64–62	1	5	0	0
Seton Hall	Kevin Willard	Iona	9	150–114	62–82	0	2	0	0
St. John's	Chris Mullin	None	4	39–60	12–42	0	0	0	0
Villanova	Jay Wright	Hofstra	18	422–165	191–103	6	13	3	2
Xavier	Travis Steele	Xavier (asst.)	1	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Player of the Year	Shamorie Ponds, St. John's
Preseason All-Big East First Team	Shamorie Ponds, St. John's
	Eric Paschall, Villanova
	Markus Howard, Maquette
	Kamar Baldwin, Butler
	Jessie Govan, Georgetown
	Alpha Diallo, Providence
Preseason All-Big East Second Team	Phil Booth, Villanova
	Myles Powell, Seton Hall
	Max Strus, DePaul
	Sam Hauser, Marquette
	Justin Simon, St. John's
Preseason All-Big East Honorable Mention	Martin Krampelj, Creighton
	Naji Marshall, Xavier

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
		() First place votes

	Butler	Creighton	DePaul	Georgetown	Marquette	Providence	Seton Hall	St. John's	Villanova	Xavier
vs. Butler	–	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1
vs. Creighton	1–1	–	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1
vs. DePaul	2–0	2–0	–	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	0–2	2–0	1–1
vs. Georgetown	1–1	2–0	1–1	–	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
vs. Marquette	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	–	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–2
vs. Providence	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	–	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1
vs. Seton Hall	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	–	1–1	1–1	1–1
vs. St. John's	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	–	1–1	2–0
vs. Villanova	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	–	1–1
vs. Xavier	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	–
Total	7–11	9–9	7–11	9–9	12–6	7–11	9–9	8–10	13–5	9–9

Week	Player of the week	Freshman of the week
November 12, 2018^[6]	Markus Howard, Marquette	A. J. Reeves, Providence
November 19, 2018^[7]	Max Strus, DePaul	James Akinjo, Georgetown
November 26, 2018^[8]	Shamorie Ponds, St. John's	A. J. Reeves (2), Providence
December 3, 2018^[9]	Markus Howard (2), Marquette	A. J. Reeves (3), Providence
December 10, 2018^[10]	Myles Powell, Seton Hall	Joey Hauser, Marquette
December 17, 2018^[11]	Max Strus (2), DePaul	Marcus Zegarowski, Creighton
December 23, 2018^[12]	Markus Howard (3), Marquette	Mac McClung, Georgetown
December 31, 2018^[13]	Naji Marshall, Xavier	Josh LeBlanc, Georgetown
January 7, 2019^[14]	Shamorie Ponds (2), St. John's	Joey Hauser (2), Marquette
January 14, 2019^[15]	Markus Howard (4), Marquette	James Akinjo (2), Georgetown
January 21, 2019^[16]	Sam Hauser, Marquette	Joey Hauser (3), Marquette
January 28, 2019^[17]	Ty-Shon Alexander, Creighton	Joey Hauser (4), Marquette
February 4, 2019^[18]	Markus Howard (5), Marquette	James Akinjo (3), Georgetown
February 11, 2019^[19]	Markus Howard (6), Marquette	Mac McClung (2), Georgetown
February 18, 2019^[20]	Mustapha Heron, St. John's	Saddiq Bey, Villanova
February 25, 2019^[21]	Naji Marshall (2), Xavier	Joey Hauser (5), Marquette
March 4, 2019^[22]	Max Strus (3), DePaul	Josh LeBlanc (2), Georgetown
March 10, 2019^[23]	Myles Powell (2), Seton Hall	James Akinjo (4), Georgetown

2018–19_Big_East_Conference_men's_basketball_season

2018–19 Big East Conference men's basketball season

Head coaches

Coaching changes

Coaches

Preseason

Preseason poll

Preseason All-Big East teams

Regular season

Rankings

Conference matrix

Player of the week

Honors and awards

All-Americans

Big East Awards

Postseason

2019 Big East tournament

Bracket

2019 NCAA tournament

2019 NIT

2019 CBI

References

External links

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v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 23 Villanova †	13	–	5	.722	26	–	10	.722
Marquette	12	–	6	.667	24	–	10	.706
Seton Hall	9	–	9	.500	20	–	14	.588
Xavier	9	–	9	.500	19	–	16	.543
Creighton	9	–	9	.500	20	–	15	.571
Georgetown	9	–	9	.500	19	–	14	.576
St. John's	8	–	10	.444	21	–	13	.618
Providence	7	–	11	.389	18	–	16	.529
Butler	7	–	11	.389	16	–	17	.485
DePaul	7	–	11	.389	19	–	17	.528

† 2019 Big East tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

Rank	Team
1.	Villanova (8)
2.	Marquette (1)
3.	Providence
4.	St. John's
5.	Butler (1)
6.	Xavier
7.	Georgetown
8.	Seton Hall
9.	Creighton
10.	DePaul
(first place votes)

Associated Press^[25]	NABC^[26]	Sporting News^[27]	USBWA^[28]
First Team
None	None	None	None
Second Team
Markus Howard – Marquette	Markus Howard – Marquette	Markus Howard – Marquette	Markus Howard – Marquette
Third Team
None	None	None	None

Award	Recipient(s)
2019 Big East Men's Basketball Individual Awards^[29]
Player of the Year	Markus Howard, G., Marquette
Coach of the Year	Jay Wright, Villanova
Defensive Player of the Year	Justin Simon, G., St. John's
Freshman of the Year	James Akinjo, G., Georgetown
Most Improved Player of the Year	Paul Reed, F., DePaul
Scholar-Athlete of the Year	Michael Nzei, F., Seton Hall
Sixth Man Award	Paul Jorgensen, G., Butler
Sportsmanship Award	Nate Fowler, C., Butler

First Team	Second Team	Honorable Mention	All-Freshman Team
2019 Big East Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams^[29]
Markus Howard† – Marquette Myles Powell† – Seton Hall Phil Booth† – Villanova Eric Paschall† – Villanova Shamorie Ponds – St. John's Jessie Govan – Georgetown	Kamar Baldwin – Butler Max Strus – DePaul Sam Hauser – Marquette Alpha Diallo – Providence Naji Marshall – Xavier	Ty-Shon Alexander - Creighton Martin Krampelj - Creighton	Marcus Zegarowski† – Creighton James Akinjo† – Georgetown Josh LeBlanc – Georgetown Mac McClung – Georgetown Joey Hauser – Marquette Saddiq Bey - Villanova
† - denotes unanimous selection

First round Wednesday, March 13 FS1			Quarterfinals Thursday, March 14 FS1			Semifinals Friday, March 15 FS1			Championship Saturday, March 16 FOX

			1	Villanova	73

			8	Providence	62
8	Providence	80

9	Butler	57
						1	Villanova	71*

						4	Xavier	67



			4	Xavier	63

			5	Creighton	61



									1	Villanova	74

									3	Seton Hall	72



			2	Marquette	86

			7	St. John's	54
7	St. John's	82

10	DePaul	74
						2	Marquette	79

						3	Seton Hall	81



			3	Seton Hall	73

			6	Georgetown	57

Seed	Region	School	First Four	1st Round	2nd Round	Sweet Sixteen	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
5	West	Marquette	BYE	L 64–83 vs. Murray State – (Hartford, CT)
6	South	Villanova	BYE	W 61–57 vs. Saint Mary's – (Hartford, CT)	L 61–87 vs. Purdue – (Hartford, CT)
10	Midwest	Seton Hall	BYE	L 68–84 vs. Wofford – (Jacksonville, FL)
11	West	St. John's	L 65–74 vs. Arizona State – (Dayton, OH)
		W–L (%):	0–1 (.000)	1–2 (.333)	0–1 (.000)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–) Total: 1–4 (.200)

Seed	Region	School	1st Round	2nd Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
2	TCU	Creighton	W 70–61 vs. Loyola–Chicago – (Omaha, NE)	W 79–67 vs. Memphis – (Omaha, NE)	L 58–71 vs. TCU – (Fort Worth, TX)
3	Alabama	Xavier	W 78–64 vs. Toledo – (Cincinnati, OH)	L 76–78 (OT) vs. Texas – (Austin, TX)
3	UNCG	Georgetown	L 68–71 vs. Harvard – (Washington, DC)
4	Indiana	Providence	L 72–84 vs. Arkansas – (Providence, RI)
5	TCU	Butler	L 76–80 vs. Nebraska – (Lincoln, NE)
		W–L (%):	2–3 (.400)	1–1 (.500)	0–1 (.000)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–) Total: 3–5–0 (.375)

School	1st Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
DePaul	W 100–86 vs. Central Michigan – (Chicago, IL)	W 97–89 vs. Longwood – (Chicago, IL)	W 92–87 vs. Coastal Carolina – (Chicago, IL)	L vs. South Florida – (Tampa, FL/Chicago, IL)
W–L (%):	1–0 (1.000)	1–0 (1.000)	1–0 (1.000)	1–2 (.333) Total: 4–2 (.667)