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Message: [QUOTE="Redmen9194, post: 3199296, member: 9969"] Close but not quite. Providence, St. John's, Syracuse and Georgetown originally had Holy Cross and Rutgers on the invite list, along with BC, UConn and Seton Hall. Both Holy Cross and Rutgers declined. The original seven were BC, SJU, UConn, G'Town, The Hall, Cuse, and Providence. A year after the league started playing, Nova joined to make it 8. When Penn State was voted down in the mid eighties, Dave Gavitt sought admission for Pitt to give the football independents another football school to schedule and it satisfied the basketball only schools because Pitt had a good program and was in a major city. Most consider the nine schools as the original Big East even though Nova and Pit were later additions. [/QUOTE]