The two-round bye is no more. Actually, byes of any kind will disappear if the Big East’s coaches get their wish. At the conference meetings Tuesday the coaches voted unanimously to get rid of the byes and in their place go with seeds 1-4 playing 16-13 on the first day and getting the next day off. That day seeds 5-8 play 12-9. The remaining teams would resume the third day.

“Our athletic directors have asked that we table [the decision] so we can study it, before we advance it to the presidents,” Big East commissioner John Marinatto said. “We would try and get his done, hopefully by the end of June.”

The athletic directors are expected to approve the recommendation and then it would only need a majority vote by the league’s presidents to change it for the 2011 tournament.