The Big East Conference will have two teams in the NCAA Basketball Final Four for just the fourth time since 1985.

Very impressive. Big East basketball has always garnered national attention.

This time around, it will be a sweet yet bitter ending for the Big East because the conference’s days are numbered and the league is forming a new identity.

The soon-to-be-renamed Big East will be called the American Athletic Conference.

“We worked with our institutions, sports marketing experts, media partners, and also solicited opinions and reactions from collegiate sports fans to create a compelling list of names," commissioner Mike Aresco explained to CBSsports.com. "Versions that included the word 'American' led every list. American Athletic Conference represents a strong, durable and aspirational name for our reinvented Conference.”

But let’s not talk about the boring "name stuff" right now.

The NCAA Basketball Final Four is scheduled for Saturday, April 6, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta and half of the teams are represented from … you guessed it … the Big East.

No. 1 East Region seed Louisville and No. 4 Midwest seed Syracuse play in different brackets Saturday and they could wrap things up even more appropriately if they meet in the title game.

The Cardinals will face No. 9-seed Wichita State out of the West, while the Orange will take on the South's No. 4 seed, Michigan.

Louisville and Syracuse will both leave the Big East and defect to the ACC. Syracuse - an original member - will leave next season, while Louisville - a member since leaving Conference USA in 2003 - will depart a year later.

Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Notre Dame also are leaving the conference.

Rutgers, Louisville, Cincinnati, Connecticut and South Florida are the five remaining teams from this year's collection of the Big East roster that will take the conference into the future. Southern Methodist, Memphis, Houston, Temple and Central Florida will complete the 2013 roster.