Big East Tourney extended at MSG through 2032

Mar 15, 2024, 05:47 PM ET NEW YORK CITY– The Big East Tournament will be held at Madison Square Garden through a minimum of 2032, ensuring one of college basketball’s most popular and storied events will take place at “The World’s A lot of Famous Arena” for 50 successive years.The league

and the arena revealed a contract extension Friday throughout a press conference at MSG before the Big East semifinals. Their existing offer was set to end in 2028.

“I’m really pleased to report that we have actually restored our pledges,” Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman stated. “Hopefully, many extra anniversaries.”

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2 Related After playing in 3 various places during the first three seasons of the Big East, the conference has held its postseason showcase simply off Broadway in Midtown Manhattan yearly given that 1983. That makes it college basketball’s longest-running postseason champion held at one area.

“Believe me, it will be more than 50 years,” said Joel Fisher, Executive Vice President, Marquee Events and Operations, MSG Entertainment. “It’s just gotten better and much better every single year. And we didn’t believe it could.”

Even with the league’s reconfiguration in 2013 to consist of Midwestern schools such as Creighton, Marquette and Xavier, college basketball fans keep gathering to MSG in March. Last year’s Big East Competition was a total sellout, with 19,812 fans filling The Garden for all 5 sessions.

“This occasion, a New York City staple, has actually long been synonymous with tradition, competitions and heart-stopping minutes,” Ackerman said in a declaration, calling the league’s collaboration with MSG “among the most enduring alliances in the sports world.”

Said Fisher: “The rich custom of the Big East Tournament has actually produced a lot of The Garden’s most well known college basketball minutes and has sealed itself as one of the most anticipated yearly events.”