The Large East Males's Basketball Match is the conference championship event in men's basketball for the Huge East Conference. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Males's Division I Basketball Championship. Since 1983, the event has been held in Madison Square Garden, New York Metropolis, New York. As such, the event is the longest running conference match at any one site in all of college basketball.
In 2011, Connecticut, led by Kemba Walker, became the primary and solely team in the Huge East Tournament to ever win 5 video games in a row in 5 days to win the championship.
The 2009 tournament featured a six-additional time sport in the quarterfinals between the Connecticut Huskies and the Syracuse Orange, in which Syracuse prevailed, 127-117. The sport, the second longest in NCAA historical past, began on the night of March 12 and ended practically 4 hours later within the early morning of March 13.
The sixteen members of the Huge East are seeded within the tournament based mostly on their conference records. Non-convention video games are ignored. Ties are damaged utilizing an elaborate set of tiebreaker rules, with the first two tiebreakers being head-to-head file and customary report against the subsequent finest convention team.
Prior to the 2009 event, solely the highest 12 teams within the conference competed. In 2009, the tournament expanded to incorporate all 16 of the convention's teams. The teams seeded 9 by way of 16 play first-spherical video games, groups seeded 5 through eight receive a bye to the second spherical, and the top four teams receive a double-bye to the quarter finals.