For the third time in the past four months, the Atlantic Coast Conference has defeated the Big East not on the playing field, but in the courtroom.
A Connecticut judge ruled in favor of the ACC and its commissioner, John Swofford in a lawsuit filed by four Big East schools over the ACC's expansion, according to espn.com.
The Big East alleges that the ACC has conspired with Boston College and Miami to weaken their conference by luring away their top football schools. The four plaintiffs -- Connecticut, Rutgers, Pittsburgh and West Virginia -- maintain that they spent millions of dollars to improve their football programs assuming the conference would remain as it was.
The decision was announced Tuesday after the judge determined neither conference had sufficient ties to Connecticut to sue in the state.
The ACC's expansion has dramatically reshaped two of the nation's power conferences. Virginia Tech and Miami will join the ACC in the 2004-2005 academic year and Boston College has accepted an invitation for the following year.
The Big East, meanwhile, will add Cincinnati, Louisville, South Florida, Marquette and DePaul in the 2005-2006 season.
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