Listen closely, and you can hear the scribbles of pens, the tapping on phones and the chats within office pods everywhere.

Try as the rest of the BIG EAST’s women’s basketball programs may, UConn is unshakable.

After a mainly straightforward Friday, when first-round play kicked off the festivities at the BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Tournament, Saturday went haywire.

Bring on March. Bring on madness.

The BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Tournament begins Friday March 3 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut as 11 teams look to win the automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.

What’s been the biggest storyline regarding the BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Player of the Year race this season?

Something that hadn’t occurred to a certain BIG EAST team in 30 years happened – and it still might not have been the craziest moment across the league last week.

It took a little bit for UConn baseball to find its footing in the BIG EAST, but now no one in the league, other than the Huskies, is glad it happened.

With less than three weeks remaining until the end of the BIG EAST women’s basketball regular season, the league seems to be in a state of inexactness.

The BIG EAST softball season usually is bound for a feverish fight, but that rings especially true for the 2023 campaign ahead.

It might just be gut-check week for many of the women's basketball teams in the BIG EAST.

Revenge is best served cold, and for some BIG EAST teams, as they play their first repeat opponents of the league slate in the next few weeks, they'll be looking to deal it out in the most inconvenient of ways.

In the BIG EAST women’s basketball gauntlet, few games, if any, are guaranteed victories.

So, what can we all take away from the first half of the BIG EAST women's basketball season?

Welcome to a new year, BIG EAST women's hoops fans. Like what you see?