The conference that earned 11 bids to the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball tournament has just two teams still alive in the Sweet 16.
Among the vanquished after the opening rounds of the tourney was No. 1 seed Pittsburgh, with the Panthers falling to Butler on Saturday.
Also gone was No. 2 seed Notre Dame, the Irish getting smoked by Florida State on Sunday.
After the carnage, the only Big East teams that lived to play this week were No. 11 Marquette, which eliminated conference rival Syracuse on Sunday, and No. 3 Connecticut, which took out Cincinnati the day before.
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