Big East Basketball: Key storylines emerging early in 2023-24 season

While conference play is not even around yet, Big East Basketball has created as much buzz as it would during the peak of this conference’s schedule in just the first few games for these teams.

With the MTE part of the season fully underway, we get to see these Big East teams take on non-conference opponents you would not usually see them play, and that can lead to some unique circumstances and high amounts of drama. This is time though to take a look back at the games right before this as well, with a mix of that early season non-conference play for these teams.

This was the week in the college basketball season where teams who have played a weak beginning to their schedule get tested, and show whether or not they are better than expected, or just beating teams they’re supposed to beat. And with the Big East there is always a fair share of teams who play well in that early season non-conference play against inferior opponents, and then struggle once the big games come along.

The conference has its fair share of dramatics, heated moments, controversies, and of course, great basketball at its core. Based on a week like this conference play is going to provide some great moments like we saw here in mid-November.

But this is exactly what we expected, this is Big East Basketball, a conference that always brings about the best, and some of the most interesting moments out of players, coaches, and even fans.

While there were even more storylines in a week like this, here are the top five storylines in this conference for the week.