2024–25 Big East Conference men's basketball season

Sports season

2024–25 Big East Conference men's basketball season

League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	11
TV partner(s)	Fox, FS1, CBS, CBSSN, NBC
Regular Season
Tournament
Basketball seasons
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2024–25 Big East men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 7 Marquette	4	–	0	1.000	13	–	2	.867
No. 9 UConn	4	–	0	1.000	12	–	3	.800
Georgetown	3	–	0	1.000	12	–	2	.857
St. John's	3	–	1	.750	12	–	3	.800
Villanova	3	–	1	.750	10	–	5	.667
Creighton	2	–	2	.500	9	–	6	.600
Xavier	1	–	3	.250	9	–	6	.600
Providence	1	–	3	.250	7	–	8	.467
Seton Hall	0	–	3	.000	5	–	9	.357
DePaul	0	–	4	.000	9	–	6	.600
Butler	0	–	4	.000	7	–	8	.467

† 2025 Big East tournament winner As of January 5, 2025 Rankings from AP Poll

The 2024–25 Big East men's basketball season is the current season for Big East Conference basketball teams that began with practices in October 2023, followed by the start of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season which will begin in November 2024. Conference play will begin in December 2024 and ended in March 2025.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

DePaul

Following the end of the 2023–24 Matt Brady interim coach was replaced by Chris Holtmann who was named the 16th head coach of the Blue Demons.

Coaches

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Overall record	Big East record	Big East titles	NCAA Tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
Butler	Thad Matta	Ohio State	4	30–33	15–25	0	13	2	0
UConn	Dan Hurley	Rhode Island	7	106–29	71–41	1	6	2	2
Creighton	Greg McDermott	Iowa State	15	245–130	123–82	0	13	0	0
DePaul	Chris Holtmann	Ohio State	1	0–0	0–0	0	7	0	0
Georgetown	Ed Cooley	Providence	2	9–23	2–18	0	0	0	0
Marquette	Shaka Smart	Texas	4	75–30	42–17	1	11	1	0
Providence	Kim English	George Mason	2	21–14	10–10	0	0	0	0
Seton Hall	Shaheen Holloway	St. Peter's	3	42–28	23–17	0	1	0	0
St. John's	Rick Pitino	Iona	2	20–13	11–9	0	21	5	1
Villanova	Kyle Neptune	Fordham	3	35–33	20–20	0	0	0	0
Xavier	Sean Miller	Arizona	8	43–28	24–16	0	11	0	0

Notes:

Years at school includes 2020–21 season.
Overall and Big East records are from current school.
NCAA Tournament appearances, Final Four & Championships include all schools.
McDermott's MVC conference records, Matta's MCC records, Miller's A-10 records, Hurley's AAC records not included since team began play in the Big East, Pitino does not include vacated wins.

Preseason

Preseason Big East poll

Prior to the conference's annual media day, conference standings were projected by panel of writers.

Rank	Team	Points
1.	UConn	100 (10)
2.	Creighton	84
3.	Xavier	82
4.	Marquette	74 (1)
5.	St. John's	70
6.	Providence	54
7.	Villanova	44
8.	Butler	36
9.	Georgetown	25
10.	Seton Hall	24
11.	DePaul	12
(first place votes)

Preseason All-Big East

A select media panel named a preseason All-Big East team and player of the year.

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Player of the Year	Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton
Preseason Freshman of the Year	Liam McNeeley, UConn
Preseason All-Big East First Team	Alex Karaban, UConn
	Kam Jones, Marquette
	Bryce Hopkins, Providence
	Kadary Richmond, St. John’s
	Eric Dixon, Villanova
Preseason All-Big East Second Team	Pierre Brooks, Butler
	Jahmyl Telfort, Butler
	Deivon Smith, St. John’s
	Zach Freemantle, Xavier
	Dayvion McKnight, Xavier
Preseason All-Big East Third Team	Aidan Mahaney, UConn
	Steven Ashworth, Creighton
	Jayden Epps, Georgetown
	Wooga Poplar, Villanova
	Ryan Conwell, Xavier

Preseason All-American teams

Player	AP

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

Player	Wooden	Naismith	Naismith DPOY	Robertson	Cousy	West	Erving	Malone	Abdul-Jabbar

Regular season

Rankings

**Legend**
		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25 of poll
(Italics)		Number of first place votes

		Pre/ Wk 1
Butler	AP
Butler	C
UConn	AP	3 (11)
UConn	C
Creighton	AP	15
Creighton	C
DePaul	AP
DePaul	C
Georgetown	AP
Georgetown	C
Marquette	AP	18
Marquette	C
Providence	AP	RV
Providence	C
Seton Hall	AP
Seton Hall	C
St. John's	AP	RV
St. John's	C
Villanova	AP
Villanova	C
Xavier	AP	RV
Xavier	C

Early season tournaments

All 11 Big East teams participated in early season tournaments.

Team	Tournament	Finish
Butler	Arizona Tip-Off	1st
UConn	Maui Invitational	8th
Creighton	Players Era Festival	7th
DePaul	–	–
Georgetown	–	–
Marquette	–	–
Providence	Battle 4 Atlantis	8th
Seton Hall	Charleston Classic	3rd
St. John's	Bahamas Championship	3rd
Villanova	Empire Classic	2nd
Xavier	Fort Myers Tip-Off	2nd

Players of the week

Throughout the conference regular season, the Big East offices named one or two players of the week and one or two freshmen of the week each Monday.

Week	Player of the week	Freshman of the week
November 11, 2024

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team is scheduled to play 20 conference games with at least one game against each opponent.

	Butler	UConn	Creighton	DePaul	Georgetown	Marquette	Providence	Seton Hall	St. John's	Villanova	Xavier
vs. Butler	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. UConn	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Creighton	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. DePaul	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Georgetown	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Marquette	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Providence	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Seton Hall	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. St. John's	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0
vs. Villanova	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0
vs. Xavier	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–
Total	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0

Honors and awards

All-Big East awards and teams

Will be announced at the end of the regular season in March.

Big East Awards

Award	Recipient(s)
2024 Big East Men's Basketball Individual Awards
Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year
Freshman of the Year
Most Improved Player of the Year
Sixth Man Award

First Team	Second Team	Honorable Mention	All-Freshman Team
2024 Big East Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams

† - denotes unanimous selection

Postseason

Big East tournament

Main article: 2025 Big East men's basketball tournament

First round Wednesday, March 12 Peacock	Quarterfinals Thursday, March 13 Peacock/FS1	Semifinals Friday, March 14 FOX	Championship Saturday, March 15 FOX

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NCAA Tournament

Main article: 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

The winner of the Big East Tournament will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seed	Region	School	First round	Second round	Sweet Sixteen	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
1	East	UConn
		W–L (%):	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–) Total: 10–2 (.833)

National Invitation Tournament

Main article: 2025 National Invitation Tournament

The following Big East teams will receive invitations to the National Invitation Tournament.

Seed	School	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
1
	W–L (%):	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–) Total: 0–0 (–)

References

"DePaul hires Chris Holtmann: Blue Demons tap ex-Ohio State coach to turn around floundering program". March 14, 2024.
"UConn Selected For First Place In Preseason Coaches' Poll". www.bigeast.com. October 23, 2024.
"Creighton's Kalkbrenner Named Preseason Player of the Year". www.bigeast.com. October 23, 2024.
Dobbertean, Chris. "2024-25 Men's College Basketball Early Season Tournaments and Exempt Multi-Team Events (MTEs)". Blogging the Bracket. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
"All-BIG EAST Teams Announced". www.bigeast.com. March 10, 2024.
"Bracket (PDF) - Big East Conference" (PDF). www.bigeast.com. Retrieved December 25, 2024.

v t e Big East Conference men's basketball
Teams	Butler Bulldogs Creighton Bluejays DePaul Blue Demons Georgetown Hoyas Marquette Golden Eagles Providence Friars St. John's Red Storm Seton Hall Pirates UConn Huskies Villanova Wildcats Xavier Musketeers
Championships & awards	Tournament Regular season champions Coach of the Year Player of the Year Defensive Player of the Year Most Improved Player Freshman of the Year All-Big East
Conference challenges	Big East–Big 12 Battle (2019–2024) Gavitt Tipoff Games (2015–2023) SEC–Big East Challenge (2007–2012)
Seasons	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25

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