UConn Basketball: 3 pros and cons for Huskies leaving Big East Conference

1. Culture and Rivalries

Now on the flip side, UConn has absolutely no history or connection to those big state schools compared to the rivalries and history they have with the schools in the Big East Conference.

You get a different regional connection unlike any other in the nation, it is in the name of the conference itself.

The culture of the Big East is so much different, it is much more tight-knit, almost cult-like when it comes to their basketball, and sometimes changing to the corporate mentality of the Power 5 can hurt your program’s success in terms of on-court success.

That competition would be tough to deal with at first, and it may put them way behind the curve unlike where they are in the Big East.

UConn’s men’s Basketball team won a National Championship in the Big East Conference, and they had a tough regular season in conference play, they might not have been seeded as high in another conference.

While there may be more eyeballs on a UConn vs Texas game, there will not be as close to as many dedicated fans who are locked into Husky basketball as there would be for even a UConn Seton Hall game.

Those Big East games are also packed with fans of the UConn Huskies because of their ability to travel to schools in New Jersey, New York, Pennslyvania, and the rest of the Northeast.