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Also, we don't know how good a Jay Wright-less Nova will be. Certainly not off to a good start. If they're not there to carry the banner with us (literally) the conference suffers greatly, especially since we don't know if Gtow/StJ will rebound to their former elite statuses.I get the Providence, Nova, Georgetown, St. John's and even Seton Hall love. I have some too. I'd trade those games for games against Syracuse and Pitt if I could personally and would love to have another 26 game winning streak against BC.
The rest of the current Big East doesn't excite me nearly as much as games against Baylor, Iowa State, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State would. Games against Kansas with both teams highly rank will probably end up on Fox main channel with all sorts of hype.
Yeah Marquette/Creighton have developed into really nice programs and Xavier should rebound under Miller, but its just not the same as OBE matchups, especially as it relates to TV ratings (and thus $).
With KU you're guaranteed an elite program to go head-to-head with yearly, and while the other schools you listed are more "new school" big CBB names, I kind of trust them to have more staying power than our "new school" midwest schools, so then at that point wouldn't you rather be in the B12?