With Big East action now in full swing, here are Five Questions for the upcoming games:
1. Can Pitt beat Georgetown?
The Hoyas are coming off a thorough beating of No. 2 UConn, the preseason favorite to win the conference, in Hartford on Monday. Now the No. 3 Panthers come to town Saturday (noon, ESPN) and could [...]

West Virginia will open Big East play on the road when it visits Seton Hall on Saturday.
But for junior forward Da’Sean Butler, it will be a homecoming.
The 6-foot-7, 233-pound Butler is a Newark, N.J., native who led Bloomfield (N.J.) Tech to three New Jersey Group 1 state championships and the 2006 Essex County title. A [...]

NEW YORK - One team with a boatload of young talent is Thomas Jefferson High in Brooklyn.
In senior guard Keith Spellman (pictured), junior forward Joel “Air Jamaica” Wright and sophomore point guard Davontay Grace, the Orange Wave have three players college scouts are keeping an eye on.
The 6-foot-2 Spellman is a natural scorer who recently [...]

It was a Big Day for the Big East, with UConn and Syracuse both winning nationally televised games, St. John’s rolling into the finals of the Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden and Rutgers getting another strong performance from its freshmen studs.
**I was at MSG, where the Johnnies routed Marist 65-44 to advance to [...]

NEW YORK – Playing before a national television audience and at Madison Square Garden for the first time in his life, Stephen Curry was in the perfect position to once again wow America with his shooting prowess.
Unfortunately for Curry, many of his long-range bombs were clanking off the rim as time wound down against [...]

Here’s a quick update live from the Jimmy V Classic at MSG. It looks like West Virginia could be playing without two guards tonight against No. 23 Davidson. Jonnie West (left foot) is out for the year and Alex Ruoff (back spasms) did not start. Joe Mazzulla started despite a shoulder contusion along with [...]

Stephen Curry played his last game in front of LeBron James and will play his next at Madison Square Garden.
While New York fans continue to dream of LeBron playing regularly on the Garden floor beginning in 2010, they can come see Curry much sooner.
Curry and No. 22 Davidson (6-1) will take on West Virginia (6-1) [...]

Clark Francis’ rankings of the Top Seniors in the Class of 2009 are out and Brooklyn Lincoln guard Lance Stephenson tops the list.
Stephenson has said he will wait until the spring to announce his future plans. St. John’s, Kansas and USC are among the schools recruiting him, and some speculate he may also opt to [...]

Count Louisville among those trying to get Famous.
Jarrid Famous, that is.
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino and assistant Steve Masiello are slated to come watch Famous work out at Westchester Community College on Nov. 25.
The 6-foot-11, 235-pound Famous has said he will wait until the spring signing period to commit, at which point he’ll have [...]

With the college season set to officially tip off with two games at Duke on Monday night, here’s a roundup of Big East exhibition games from the weekend.
** Lazar Hayward scored 23 points and Jerel McNeal added 22, making new coach Buzz Williams a winner in No. 16 Marquette’s 94-73 victory over Division II Colorado [...]