Big East beats ACC again!

[scdono]

nm

 

[John]

gotta admit tonight I was Big East just like the old days when I'd root Big East no matter what. When it comes to the ACC, f u ck 'em where they live.

 

[Matrim55]

Big East has won 3 of the last 4, 4 of the last 6 titles!

*sobs*

 

[Sea Goat]

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nm

I for one am happy with the result. It would have been a travesty if a chronic practitioner of academic fraud won the tournament.

 

[David 76]

Big East has won 3 of the last 4, 4 of the last 6 titles!

*sobs*

And former Big East Team that moved to the ACC has won a championship!
Although they have had scandals.

 

[UConnSwag11]

just said that the big east has won the 6 straight NC games (that they've been in)

 

[Jax Husky]

Big East has won 3 of the last 4, 4 of the last 6 titles!

*sobs*

How do you figure this?

Nevermind, I see what you are doing. I guess you're counting UConn '14 and Louisville even though neither was in the BE

 

[Matrim55]

How do you figure this?

Nevermind, I see what you are doing. I guess you're counting UConn '14 and Louisville even though neither was in the BE

 

[justinslot]

Swofford spent fifteen years trying to destroy the Big East, and now his failure is complete, to repurpose a phrase.

(I spent some formative years in North Jersey and Rhode Island in the 80s and was a fan of the league more than any single one of the teams involved, if that makes sense. As a Temple fan I hate Nova but seeing this UNC team lose to a classic BE team was deeply satisfying.)

 

[RedStickHusky]

That ain't the Big East. FWIW, 'Nova was my 63rd favorite team in this tournament. Carolina was 68th so there's that.

 

[tcf15]

just said that the big east has won the 6 straight NC games (that they've been in)

Ah, the benefit of buying the name and record books, but completely ignoring the two back-to-back championship losses by a current Big East team.

 

[TheRogers]

 

[CallMeBruce]

How do you figure this?

Nevermind, I see what you are doing. I guess you're counting UConn '14 and Louisville even though neither was in the BE

Louisville was definitely in the Big East in 2013.

 

[UC1995]

I think someone at ESPN just called us a power house and blue blood. Most likely Medcalf won't be with ESPN much longer for such an unforgivable slip.

"Entering Monday's game, Kentucky, Duke, Connecticut and North Carolina had won 12 of the previous 20 national championships in Division I basketball.

So, the Wildcats won a national title for their alumni, former coach Rollie Massimino, the Big East, Jay Wright and their fans. But they also won a championship for every team in the nosebleeds that has watched the powerhouses control the game for years.

College basketball's 68-team, single-elimination tournament comprises one of few arrangements in major sports that still offers the have-nots a fair chance to become kings. The game rarely surrenders the crown, however, to any team outside the blockade of blue-bloods."

 

[RedStickHusky]

I think someone at ESPN just called us a power house and blue blood. Most likely Medcalf won't be with ESPN much longer for such an unforgivable slip.

"Entering Monday's game, Kentucky, Duke, Connecticut and North Carolina had won 12 of the previous 20 national championships in Division I basketball.

So, the Wildcats won a national title for their alumni, former coach Rollie Massimino, the Big East, Jay Wright and their fans. But they also won a championship for every team in the nosebleeds that has watched the powerhouses control the game for years.

College basketball's 68-team, single-elimination tournament comprises one of few arrangements in major sports that still offers the have-nots a fair chance to become kings. The game rarely surrenders the crown, however, to any team outside the blockade of blue-bloods."

And to the perennial argument that 'the best team doesn't win', I say "I'd rather be the winner."

 

[David 76]

4 teams have 12 championships in the last 20 years? We have 4, so the other 3 only have 8. Who's not carrying their weight?

 

[storrsroars]

4 teams have 12 championships in the last 20 years? We have 4, so the other 3 only have 8. Who's not carrying their weight?

Obviously ESPN hates Florida. They do have as many NCs as UNC in the time frame discussed.