Editing Big East Conference (1979–2013) (section)

==Sports==
The Big East Conference sponsored championship competition in eleven men's and thirteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports.<ref>http://www.bigeast.org {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320205016/http://www.bigeast.org/ |date=March 20, 2013 }}</ref> [[Temple University|Temple]] was an Associate member for football, and [[Loyola University Maryland|Loyola, Maryland]] was an Associate member for women's lacrosse.

{| class="wikitable" style=
|+ '''Teams in Big East Conference competition'''
!Sport||Men's||Women's
|-
|[[Baseball]]||{{center|11}}||{{center|-}}
|-
|[[Basketball]]||{{center|15}}||{{center|15}}
|-
|[[Cross country running|Cross country]]||{{center|14}}||{{center|15}}
|-
|[[Field hockey]]||{{center|-}}||{{center|7}}
|-
|[[American football|Football]]||{{center|8}}||{{center|-}}
|-
|[[Golf]]||{{center|12}}||{{center|8}}
|-
|[[Lacrosse]]||{{center|7}}||{{center|9}}
|-
|[[Rowing (sport)|Rowing]]||{{center|-}}||{{center|8}}
|-
|[[College soccer in the United States|Soccer]]||{{center|15}}||{{center|15}}
|-
|[[Softball]]||{{center|-}}||{{center|13}}
|-
|[[Swimming (sport)|Swimming]] & [[Diving (sport)|Diving]]||{{center|9}}||{{center|10}}
|-
||[[Tennis]]||{{center|9}}||{{center|15}}
|-
||[[Track and field#Indoor|Track and field (indoor)]]||{{center|13}}||{{center|14}}
|-
||[[Track and field#Outdoor|Track and field (outdoor)]]||{{center|13}}||{{center|14}}
|-
|[[Volleyball]]||{{center|-}}||{{center|14}}
|}
'''NOTE:''' Under NCAA rules reflecting the large number of male scholarship participants in football and attempting to address [[gender equity]] concerns (see also [[Title IX]]), each football playing member institution is required to provide two more women's varsity sports than men's.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chronicle.com/che-data/articles.dir/articles-39.dir/issue-41.dir/41a03502.htm |title=Title IX rules related to SEC participation |publisher=The Chronicle |access-date=December 6, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20030906072609/http://chronicle.com/che-data/articles.dir/articles-39.dir/issue-41.dir/41a03502.htm |archive-date=September 6, 2003  }}</ref>