2010 Big East men's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2010
Conference:	Big East
Division:	I
Gender:	Men's
Teams:	16
Arena:	Madison Square Garden
City:	New York City
Champions:	West Virginia
Titlecount:	1st
Coach:	Bob Huggins
Coachcount:	1st
Mvp:	Da'Sean Butler
Mvpteam:	West Virginia
Points:	60
Television:	ESPN

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

Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	Tiebreaker^[2]
2010 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament seeds
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.

Finals

Broadcasters

Local Radio

Notes and References

16-Team Men's Championship Format . 2009-03-13 . . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090206113521/http://bigeast.org/pdf2/94777.pdf . 2009-02-06 . dead .
Web site: Tie Breaking Procedures . 2010-03-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100331111542/http://www.bigeast.org/fls/19400/pdfs/mensbball/tie-breaker10.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=19400&KEY=&SPID=11228&SPSID=94715 . 2010-03-31 . dead .
https://web.archive.org/web/20100304213649/http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=300620183 "Orange top Red Storm to win Big East title outright for second time"