Day 1 of the 2025 Big East Tournament concludes with the Seton Hall Pirates (7-24, 2-18) taking the court against the Villanova Wildcats (18-13, 11-9). Villanova saw their NCAA Tournament hopes extinguished with a 75-73 loss to Georgetown eight days ago.

St. John's enters the tournament as the favorite, with Pitino's Red Storm priced at +140 at FanDuel Sportsbook. Next up are No. 2 Creighton and No. 3 UConn, as both are +410 to win the Big East Tournament. No. 5 Marquette is +600, No. 4 Xavier is +850 and No. 6 Villanova is +1600.

The Big East Tournament gets underway Wednesday with three first-round games from teams seeded sixth through 11th, all of which air on Peacock. These teams playing on Wednesday have to win four games in four days to win the tournament and punch their ticket to March Madness.

St. John's University coach Rick Pitino was named Big East Coach of the Year for 2025 after he lead St. John's to the conference title in what his boss says is a "redemption story."

Even the man who hired Rick Pitino to turn St. John’s around didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. When Pitino famously guaranteed at his introductory press conference in March of 2023 that St. John’s was “going to be back,

Rick Pitino has won his first Big East Coach of the Year award and RJ Luis Jr. took Player of the Year honors after they propelled a resurgent St.