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Message: [QUOTE="Windsorlocks, post: 2957700, member: 5993"] The Wikipedia entry on the Big East says the Catholic 7 got MSG, the name, and the basketball history and records. The same entry says the AAC got the football records. This USA Today article from the time also states that the Catholic 7 retained the records. What's odd about the ESPN article that you posted is that it says at the beginning that the departing schools retain the league name, and at the end of the article have to choose a new name by July 1st. [URL='https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2013/03/20/new-big-east-rather-reminiscent-of-old-big-east/2003477/']New Big East rather reminiscent of old Big East[/URL] It may be time to retire the moniker 'Catholic 7.' Not only are those seven schools — plus newly added Butler, Xavier and Creighton — calling themselves the new Big East already, but they're taking the Big East's history with them, too. "As part of our separation agreement, we negotiated that the basketball records will remain the property of the basketball schools," Providence president Fr. Brian Shanley said on a teleconference Wednesday. "The Big East will just keep going on, being the inheritor if you will, of the traditions and the records of the conference." [/QUOTE]