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What was always seemingly a foregone conclusion has finally come to be: The UConn Huskies will be returning to the Big East!
The news seemed to come out of nowhere, and escalated very quickly. It started with a tweet Friday evening from Digital Sports Desk.
Breaking #SportsBiz news from Connecticut: #UConn making plans to return to Big East basketball … Developing: https://t.co/Lqe1nySVZV
— DigitalSportsDesk (@DigSportsDesk) June 22, 2019
By Saturday morning, The Hartford Courant’s Mike Anthony confirmed the rumor, then The Athletic’s Dana O’Neil confirmed UConn would be coming aboard.
I can confirm that UConn is awaiting official invitation to the Big East and a formal announcement of the move is forthcoming. First reported by @DigSportsDesk
— Mike Anthony (@ManthonyCourant) June 22, 2019
UConn football likely lands in another conference or goes independent, starting in 2020 season.
Source confirmed that UConn will be added as a member of the Big East. Announcement likely this week.
— Dana O'Neil (@DanaONeilWriter) June 22, 2019
It’s worth pointing out that the UConn Board of Trustees have their monthly meeting scheduled for this Wednesday, so a vote could possibly come then, though it’s not on the agenda as of Saturday afternoon.
For more on what this means from a UConn perspective, our friends at The UConn Blog put together an entire podcast about it. Take a listen!