In April, Evans proposed a resolution in support of creating a local Big 6 college basketball tournament featuring American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard and Maryland. D.C.’s Big 6 would be modeled after Philadelphia’s Big 5 of LaSalle, Pennsylvania, St. Joseph’s, Temple and Villanova. Those teams have played each other every year since 1955, except for an eight-season stretch in the 90s when the full round robin format was abandoned and each school played two Big 5 opponents per year.
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