Question: Where were the home games for a 2009-10 men's basketball team whose players known as Hoyas are members of a collegiate athletics conference that consisted of as many as 16 universities in the eastern half of the US and are known as the Big East Conference, played?
Sentence (from "Big East Conference (1979–2013)"): The Big East Conference was a collegiate athletics conference that consisted of as many as 16 universities in the eastern half of the United States from 1979 to 2013.
Relevant evidence: Yes