*** Welcome to piglix ***

2018 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament

2018 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2017–18
Teams 10
Site Madison Square Garden
New York City
Champions Villanova (6th title)
Winning coach Jay Wright (3rd title)
MVP Mikal Bridges (Villanova)
Attendance 93,949
Television FS1, FOX
← 2017
2019 →
2017–18 Big East men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
No. 3 Xavier 15 3   .833     29 6   .829
No. 2 Villanova 14 4   .778     36 4   .900
Seton Hall 10 8   .556     22 12   .647
Creighton 10 8   .556     21 12   .636
Providence 10 8   .556     21 14   .600
Butler 9 9   .500     21 14   .600
Marquette 9 9   .500     21 14   .600
Georgetown 5 13   .278     15 15   .500
St. John's 4 14   .222     16 17   .485
DePaul 4 14   .222     11 20   .355
2018 Big East Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2018 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason tournament men's basketball tournament for the Big East Conference. It washeld from March 7 through March 10, 2018 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. No. 2 seed Villanova defeated No. 5 seed Providence in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's bid to the NCAA Tournament. It was Villanova's second straight tournament championship.

Providence participated in three straight overtime games in the tournament, setting a Big East Tournament record.

All 10 Big East schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by the conference record with tie-breaking procedures to determine the seeds for teams with identical conference records. The top six teams received first-round byes. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season. Notably, no Big East team had secured its tournament seed before the final day of the 2017–18 regular season.

* denotes overtime period


...
Wikipedia

...