It’s about to become official, after all these years: the Big East is finally dead.

Well, not really. If you caught the news today, the so-called”Catholic 7″ schools that are breaking away from the current all-sports Big East will take the Big East name with them, so technically, the league lives on.

But the all-sports Big East that included football is finally gone, and the league is returning to its roots, a conference in which men’s basketball is the headline sport, led by schools that don’t have a Division 1-A football program.

Here are the particulars of the deal:

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