The new additions are a boon for the Big East's now 16-member basketball conference.

He led his basketball conference in scoring his senior year.

The champions of the 22 basketball conferences qualify automatically.

You have a basketball conference with no identity.

The basketball conference, which first played in 1979-80, was formed as a way to exploit a natural resource of the Northeast corridor.

The new-look Big East will undoubtedly be one of the best basketball conferences in the country.

ABC broadcast this game live nationally, a huge bit of exposure for what was usually known as a basketball conference.

And the Big East can no longer be dismissed as only a basketball conference.

There are 347 schools in 32 Division I basketball conferences.

Over the years, it has carved out a niche as a basketball conference, one of the best in the country.