NEW YORK – At long last, the Lance Stephenson sweepstakes is over and the talented Lincoln High School player is going to the Big East.
“They’ve decided. He’s off to Cincinnati,” said a source close to the family with direct knowledge of the decision. “It’s a done deal. I am certain of this.”
The 6-foot-5, 200-pound Stephenson [...]

NEW YORK – It only took Jordan Hill a few seconds Thursday night to learn how vocal New York fans can be.
But Hill could be traded from the Knicks before he gets accustomed to his new surroundings.
“That type of crowd, if they don’t get who they want, they will give a couple of boos,” said [...]

Check out St. John’s coach Norm Roberts talking about the upcoming NBA Draft. And stay tuned for an upcoming video interview in which Coach Roberts talks about what to expect from the Red Storm during the 2009-10 Big East season.

For more from Knicks GM Donnie Walsh and UCLA guard Jrue Holiday, watch here.

The Big East will lose at least a half dozen players to the NBA Draft on June 25, including Syracuse’s Jonny Flynn, UConn’s Hasheem Thabeet, Georgetown’s DaJuan Summers, Louisville’s Earl Clark and Terrence Williams and the Pittsburgh duo of DeJuan Blair and Sam Young.
Yet several special Big East players withdrew from the draft before [...]

Joe Paterno and the other Big Ten coaches may want the Rutgers football team to join their conference, but Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese isn’t overly worried about it.
“[Paterno] is entitled to his option. That’s what I took it to be, his opinion,” Tranghese said Monday by phone. “There’s been no comment on expansion from [...]

NEW YORK - Jamie Dixon says change is coming to the Big East next year.
While Louisville, Pitt and UConn dominated the conference a year ago — going a combined 46-8 –  Dixon says a new group of teams could move up this year.
“Cincinnati, St. John’s, Seton Hall,” Dixon said Wednesday at a coaches clinic at [...]

Tom Konchalski talks about the recruiting classes at UConn, Villanova, Rutgers, Seton Hall and St. John’s.
Just to clarify, an edit was done so that we skip ahead from Rutgers to Seton Hall at one point. The dividing point begins when we talk about Seton Hall recruit Ferrakohn Hall.
For more from Tom on Lance Stephenson, John [...]

DETROIT — This was supposed to be the year of the Big East.
It was supposed to be the year that one of the conference’s many powerhouse teams won a national championship.
Or at least had an opportunity to play for one.
Instead, North Carolina of the ACC and Michigan State of the Big 10 will meet for [...]