This is pretty accurate. I’d add Xavier to the semi-relevant column. Georgetown won’t say it out loud, but they are effectively deemphasizing athletics, or more correctly following an Ivy League model. This years run was one of those flukes that happen every now and then. The powers at the school will consider it a perfect year any time they win as many as they lose. Just note to that any discussion of the regional coherence of the New Big East kind of ignores the location of Creighton, Butler, DePaul, Marquette, Xavier. Those are all harder to get to from Hartford than Tampa, Orlando, Houston, Dallas. And give me New Orleans over any place in Nebraska.
