Who founded the original Big East Conference?
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Answer
Dave Gavitt founded the original Big East Conference in 1979. He was a former basketball player and coach at Providence College, and he served as the conference's commissioner from 1980 to 1990. The Big East was originally composed of seven schools from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, and it quickly became one of the most competitive college basketball conferences in the country.
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