NEW YORK – For the 40th consecutive season, the BIG EAST Conference will call Madison Square Garden home for its men’s basketball tournament. Beginning Tuesday at Noon ET, single session tickets for the 2022 BIG EAST Tournament presented by Jeep will be on sale to the public at Ticketmaster.
 
The 2022 BIG EAST Tournament will be played March 9-12. Entering its fourth decade in New York City, the BIG EAST Tournament is college basketball’s longest-running postseason basketball conference championship held at the same venue, dating to 1983.
 
Tickets can be managed digitally and accessed via the BIG EAST Account Manager. Tickets can also be downloaded and managed in the MSG App. Fans can utilize the official Ticketmaster fan-to-fan resale marketplace, Ticketmaster.com/verified, if unable to attend a particular session.

The 2022 BIG EAST Tournament will begin on Wednesday, March 9, with a first-round tripleheader.  The No. 8 seed meets the No. 9 seed at 4:30 p.m. ET, followed by the No. 7 seed battling the No. 10 seed at 7 p.m. and the No. 6 seed playing the No. 11 seed at 9:30 p.m.
 
Thursday’s quarterfinals will continue the BIG EAST Tournament tradition of taking over Madison Square Garden for the entire day, electrifying the metro area college basketball community, as well as those coming from across the BIG EAST map. The afternoon doubleheader features the No. 1 seed facing the winner of Wednesday’s 8-9 game, followed by a matchup of the No. 4 seed against the No. 5 seed. The evening doubleheader, which begins at 7 p.m., will pit the No. 2 seed against the winner of Wednesday’s 7-10 game, followed by the No. 3 seed against the winner of Wednesday’s 6-11 contest.
 
Friday’s semifinal night will feature a battle between the winners of Thursday’s afternoon sessions, with the first game tipping at 6:30 p.m., followed by a nightcap at 9 p.m. ET, between the winners of the Thursday’s night session.
 
The BIG EAST Tournament championship game will take place on Saturday evening, tipping off at 6:30 p.m. ET, featuring the two winners from Friday night, with the winner earning the league’s automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Tournament. FOX Sports, the conference’s television partner, will continue its wall-to-wall coverage with FS1 televising all nine games in the first three days of the Tournament before the FOX broadcast network carries the championship game.