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The longtime Big East commissioner leaves at a pivotal moment of change, leaving no singular voice to steer the sport’s future. Whenever Val Ackerman wanted to show someone what college sports was ...

Big East commissioner Val Ackerman has covered more basketball ground than most in history, so it’s no coincidence that the two most visible and influential roles of her career intertwined with ...

In 2013, Val Ackerman was teaching a leadership course at Columbia University as the Big East scraped its way back to existence after being left for roadkill amid college football realignment.

The Big East was on the brink of power-conference dissolution. If one person was going to save it, Val Ackerman would be that protagonist. The year was 2013. Conference realignment had again redrawn ...