2010 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament

2010 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
Tournament Logo
Classification	Division I
Season	2009–10
Teams	16
Site	Madison Square Garden New York City
Champions	West Virginia (1st title)
Winning coach	Bob Huggins (1st title)
MVP	Da'Sean Butler (West Virginia)
Television	ESPN
Big East Men's Basketball Tournaments «2009  2011»

{{2009–10 Big East men's basketball standings}} The 2010 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2009-10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place in March 2010 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The West Virginia Mountaineers defeated the Georgetown Hoyas 60–58 in the tournament finals to receive the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Tournament. It was West Virginia's first Big East Tournament championship. This was the second Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams. The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first round games, while teams 5 through 8 received byes to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season received double-byes to the quarterfinals.^[1]

Seeds

2010 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament seeds
Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	Tiebreaker[2]
1.	‡†Syracuse	15–3	28–3
2.	†Pittsburgh	13–5	24–7	2–1 vs. WVU/NOVA
3.	†West Virginia	13–5	24–6	2–2 vs. PITT/NOVA
4.	†Villanova	13–5	24–6	1–2 vs. PITT/WVU
5.	#Marquette	11–7	20–10	1–0 vs. LOU
6.	#Louisville	11–7	20–11	0–1 vs. MARQ
7.	#Notre Dame	10–8	21–10	1–0 vs. GTWN
8.	#Georgetown	10–8	20–9	0–1 vs. ND
9.	South Florida	9–9	19–11	1–0 vs. HALL
10.	Seton Hall	9–9	18–11	0–1 vs. USF
11.	Cincinnati	7–11	16–14	2–0 vs. CONN
12.	Connecticut	7–11	17–14	0–2 vs. CIN
13.	St. John's	6–12	16–14
14.	Rutgers	5–13	15–16
15.	Providence	4–14	12–18
16.	DePaul	1–17	8–22
‡ – Big East regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.[3] † – Received a double-bye in the conference tournament. # – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament. Overall records are as of the end of the regular season.

Bracket

All times Eastern. Rankings from AP Poll.

	First Round Tuesday, March 9					Second Round Wednesday, March 10					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 11					Semifinals Friday, March 12
	9	South Florida	58
	16	DePaul	49			9	South Florida	49
						8	#22 Georgetown	69
											8	#22 Georgetown	91
											1	#3 Syracuse	84
																8	#22 Georgetown	80
	12	Connecticut	51													5	Marquette	57
	13	St. John's	73			13	St. John's	55
						5	Marquette	57
											5	Marquette	80
											4	#10 Villanova	76

	First Round Tuesday, March 9					Second Round Wednesday, March 10					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 11					Semifinals Friday, March 12
	10	Seton Hall	109
	15	Providence	106			10	Seton Hall	56
						7	Notre Dame	68
											7	Notre Dame	50
											2	#16 Pittsburgh	45
																7	Notre Dame	51
	11	Cincinnati	69													3	#7 West Virginia	53
	14	Rutgers	68			11	Cincinnati	69
						6	Louisville	66
											11	Cincinnati	51
											3	#7 West Virginia	54

Championship Game

	Big East Tournament Final Saturday, March 13
	8	#22 Georgetown	58
	3	#7 West Virginia	60

First Round

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March 9 2:30 pm ET

Recap

(13) St. John's 73, (12) Connecticut 51
Scoring by half: 35–22, 38–29
Pts: Sean Evans 19 Rebs: Sean Evans 10 Asts: Malik Boothe 9 Blocks: Justin Brownlee 4		Pts: Kemba Walker 12 Rebs: Stanley Robinson 8 Asts: Kemba Walker 4 Blocks: Ater Majok 3

Madison Square Garden Attendance: 19,375 Referees: Karl Hess, Brian O'Connell, Karl Walton

Broadcasters

Local Radio

Teams	Flagship station	Play-by-play	Analyst
Connecticut	WTIC–AM	Joe D'Ambrosio	Wayne Norman

See also

• 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
• Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
• 2009–10 Big East Conference men's basketball season
• 2010 Big East Women's Basketball Tournament

References

1. "16-Team Men's Championship Format" (PDF) (Press release). Big East Conference. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
2. Tie Breaking Procedures
3. "Orange top Red Storm to win Big East title outright for second time". ESPN.com. Published 03-02-2010. Retrieved 03-02-2010.