The Big East is known as a rough and hard-nosed college basketball conference and that was very evident on Tuesday night as Notre Dame-St. John's got into a fight towards the end of their game in South Bend.

According to the Associated Press, the Irish took home a 66-40 victory, but the game was marred at the end by a fight between Notre Dame's Cameron Biedscheid and Sir'Dominic Pointer of the Red Storm with less than two minutes left in the game. The players were ejected and given technical fouls and now will miss their next game.

Notre Dame was led by Jerian Grant and Eric Atkins and the Irish rebounded from a 28 percent shooting clip in the first half to hit nearly 70 percent in the second.

"Our guards ran the whole building tonight," Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said. "They probably took tickets, sold popcorn. When our guards are playing like that, I just sit down and shut up and let them do whatever they want. They were fabulous to watch."

The Irish improved to 23-7 on the season and 11-6 in the Big East to bounce back from a three game losing streak. St. John's fell to 16-13, including 8-9 in the Big East while losing their fifth game in six contests.

Notre Dame coach Mike Brey and St. John's coach Steve Lavin did not get to see much of what happened, while coaches said that the two started jawing with each other while someone was taking free throws.

Brey said Biedscheid told him he was defending himself. "He felt it started with the other guy and he defended himself. But under the rule, if you do throw a punch you're ejected," Brey said.

Lavin suspended pointer for the season finale and said that he will serve out his penalty for the fight.

"Dom apologized for losing his composure and will serve his penalty by missing the final game against Marquette," Lavin said. "We have to demonstrate more maturity than we did tonight. We want to play with intensity but also use intelligence in order to play a winning brand of basketball."

Amir Garret was also suspended for leaving the bench and the Big East said it will review the incident to see what happened.

"Coach Lavin, his staff and team have continued a tradition of integrity associated with our men's basketball program and will deal with this isolated incident accordingly," St. John's said in a statement released Wednesday.