Another former Big East Rivalry will be renewed soon.
Villanova and Connecticut are set to resume a home-and-home series next year, according to FanRag Sports’ Jon Rothstein.
The Huskies will host the first game of the series with the return game coming in 2018, though exact dates and venues have not yet been set.
Since the Big East split in recent years, the two teams have met once, in the 2014 NCAA tournament when the Huskies went on to win a national championship.
UConn played Syracuse earlier this year while the Orange also took on St. John’s and Georgetown in a rematch of former Big East rivals now spread across the realignment landscape.
While the new iteration of the Big East is as strong as its best since the basketball schools bolted - with the Wildcats the defending champions and Creighton and Xavier both having big years - it’s encouraging to see that the classic matchups of the old Big East aren’t being completely abandoned in this new era of hoops, not only for nostalgia purposes but because they remain some of the best brands and programs in the sport.