Throughout the 1960s and 70s , Connecticut remained a regional power , winning an additional six Yankee Conference titles before the conference dropped basketball in 1975 and earning multiple NCAA tournament berths . In 1979 , UConn became one of the seven founding schools of the Big East Conference , which was created to focus on basketball
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Big East Conference (1979–2013)
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