The conference houses the reigning national champion Connecticut Huskies, who did not win either the conference’s regular season or tournament crown last season.
Marquette, despite ranking 308th in the country in rebound rate, won the regular-season and Big East tournament titles, this in a conference that had three teams in the country’s top 15 in rebound rate.
The conference is made up of a bunch of teams that are not afraid to travel, going 73-56-2 against the spread in road games, and more specifically teams in the conference went 31-18-1 against the spread in the role of a road favorite last season.
Since the conference realigned before the start of the 2013-14 season, Villanova has won at least a share of the regular-season conference title seven times but has failed to do so either of the past two seasons while the conference has put at least four teams into each of the past 29 NCAA tournaments.