By John Antonik for MSNsportsNET.com
March 5, 2006 TOURNAMENT BRACKET
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The field for the 2006 Big East men’s basketball tournament, presented by Aeropostale, has been established after Sunday afternoon’s final regular season games.
Earning the top four seeds and first-round byes are Connecticut and Villanova, seeded one and two, along with three-seed West Virginia and No. 4 Marquette. The Golden Eagles finished in a three-way tie with Georgetown and Pitt with 10-6 league records but earns the bye due to tiebreakers.
Connecticut and Villanova finished with 14-2 conference records with the Huskies earning the top seed. West Virginia had an 11-5 Big East record for its first-ever first-round tournament bye.
Playing first-round games on Monday are No. 8 Cincinnati facing No. 9 Syracuse at noon, No. 5 Georgetown playing No. 12 Notre Dame at 2 pm, No. 7 Seton Hall and No. 10 Rutgers squaring off at 7 pm, and No. 6 Pitt battling No. 11 Louisville at 9 pm.
All four Wednesday games will air on ESPN.
The winner of the Cincinnati-Syracuse game will play Connecticut on Thursday afternoon at noon. Marquette will take on the winner of the Georgetown-Notre Dame game at 2 pm, while Villanova will face the Seton Hall-Rutgers winner at 7 pm.
West Virginia plays the final game Thursday night at 9 pm against the Pitt-Louisville winner. ESPN will air three of the four games on Thursday, with ESPN2 carrying the 7 pm contest.
The two semifinal games will take place on Friday at 7 and 9 pm on ESPN, with the championship game on Saturday being televised by ESPN at 8 pm.
All 11 games will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
DePaul, Providence, St. John’s and South Florida failed to qualify for the 12-team conference tournament.
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