The 2016–17

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men's basketball season began with practices in October 2016, followed by the start of the

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in November. This season marked the 38th year in the conference's history, but the fourth as a non-football conference, which officially formed on July 1, 2013. Conference play began on December 31, 2016. Villanova clinched the regular season championship, their fourth straight Big East regular season championship, with a win over No. 23-ranked Creighton on February 25.

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finished second, three games behind Villanova. Villanova shooting guard Josh Hart was named the conference's Player of the Year. Butler head coach

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was named Big East Coach of the Year. The Big East Conference tournament at

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from March 8 through March 11, 2017. Villanova also won the Big East Conference tournament beating Creighton in the Tournament championship game. As a result, Villanova received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Seven Big East Schools (Villanova, Butler, Creighton, Marquette, Providence,

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, and Xavier) received bids to the NCAA Tournament. The conference finished with a 5–7 record in the Tournament, highlighted by Butler reaching the Sweet Sixteen and Xavier advancing to the Elite Eight.

Head coaches

Coaches

''Notes:'' * Year at school includes 2016–17 season. * Overall and Big East records are from time at current school and are through the end the 2016–17 season. * Mack's A-10 and McDermott's MVC conference records not included since teams began play in Big East.

Preseason

Preseason poll

Prior to the season, the Big East conducted a poll of Big East coaches, coaches do not place their own team on their ballots.

Preseason All-Big East teams

Source

Regular Season

Rankings

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play through February 14, 2017.

Player of the week

Source

Honors and awards

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All-Big East Awards and Teams

Postseason

2017 Big East tournament

NCAA tournament

The winner of the Big East tournament received an automatic bid to the

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References

External links

Big East website
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