This year's men's Big 5 Classic at the Wells Fargo Center will be on Saturday, Dec. 7. The new women's event is the day before at Villanova.
St. Joseph's players celebrate as the championship banner is lowered behind them after they defeated Temple, 74-65, to win the Big 5 Classic on Dec. 2, 2023 at the Wells Fargo Center.The men’s Big 5 Classic, the six-team, two-pod, round-robin style tournament culminating with a triple-header at the Wells Fargo Center, is here to stay.
The Big 5 announced Thursday morning that the triple-header finale will return to the Wells Fargo Center for the next three seasons.The announcement Thursday was at Villanova’s Finneran Pavilion, where the Big 5 also announced the official launch of the, which also now includes Drexel. The women’s teams will play in the same three-school pods as the men, and the women’s round-robin will finish with a triple-header at the Finneran Pavilion on Dec. 6, the day before the men’s event.St.
Following the 2024 Big 5 Classic, the pods for the men and women will remain synchronized and rotate every two years. The site of the women’s finale will also rotate on a yearly basis to other sites that will be determined at a later date, the Big 5 said in a press release.The Big 5 on Thursday also named St. Joe’s grad Dan Hilferty, the chairman and chief executive officer of Comcast Spectacor and governor of the Flyers, as the ambassador of the Big 5.
“After a great response from the inaugural year of the new men’s format, I am thrilled to see that the success of the reinvigorated Big 5 is extending to women’s basketball,” Hilferty said in a release. “As a lifelong basketball fan and Big 5 alumnus, I am really excited to be working with the six universities to keep traditions alive and champion the future of the Big 5.”
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