2025 Big East men's basketball tournament

The 2025 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big East Conference held March 12–15, 2025, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The winner, St. John's, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

The double-overtime quarterfinal game between DePaul and Creighton on March 13 was the first multi-overtime game in the Big East tournament since the foundation of the new Big East Conference in the offseason of 2013. It also was the first in the tournament since a double-overtime game in 2012, when the tournament belonged to the original Big East Conference of 1979–2013.

Seeds All 11 Big East schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record with tie-breaking procedures to determine the seeds for teams with identical conference records. The top five teams received first-round byes. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker1St. John's18–22Creighton15–53UConn14–64Xavier 13–71–1 vs. UConn5Marquette 13–70–2 vs. UConn6 Villanova 11–97 Georgetown8–128 Providence6–141–1 vs. Villanova9 Butler6–140–2 vs. Villanova10DePaul4–1611Seton Hall2–18

Schedule GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendanceFirst round – Wednesday, March 1214:00 pmNo. 8 Providence vs. No. 9 Butler69–75Peacock19,81226:30 pmNo. 7 Georgetown vs. No. 10 DePaul67–7139:00 pmNo. 6 Villanova vs. No. 11 Seton Hall67–55Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 13412:00 pmNo. 1 St. John's vs. No. 9 Butler78–57Peacock19,81252:30 pmNo. 4 Xavier vs. No. 5 Marquette87–8967:00 pmNo. 2 Creighton vs. No. 10 DePaul85–81 2OTFS119,812710:18 pmNo. 3 UConn vs. No. 6 Villanova73–56Semifinals – Friday, March 1486:40 pmNo. 1 St. John's vs. No. 5 Marquette79–63Fox19,81299:30 pmNo. 2 Creighton vs. No. 3 UConn71–62Championship – Saturday, March 15106:30 pmNo. 1 St. John's vs. No. 2 Creighton82–66Fox19,812Game times in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

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Awards and honors All-Tournament Team Name Pos. Height Weight Year Team Zuby Ejiofor F 6'9" 240 Jr. St. John's Kadary Richmond G 6'6" 205 GS. Ryan Kalkbrenner C 7'1" 270 GS. Creighton Kam Jones G 6'5" 200 Sr. Marquette Ryan Conwell G 6'3" 210 Jr. Xavier

Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Outstanding Player) Name Pos. Height Weight Year Team RJ Luis Jr. G/F 6'7" 215 Jr. St. John's

Game summaries First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

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