Big East bubble picture as of today

[shizzle787]

While I am not happy about this being the case, I am convinced that the powers that be will have a soft cap at three in terms of bids they will make available to the BE and it will take a very solid resume for a fourth school to get a bid.

I also believe that the SEC as a whole will receive far too much credit for their performance against the ACC and that may end up giving them twelve or thirteen bids.

Don’t think it works like that: the MW got six last year. Their “cap” if the powers that be had a say would be 1 or 2.

 

[ecasadoSBU]

What I find odd over the past few years since Connecticut joined the Big East is that the league is averaging less bids overall than it did in its initial 6 years.

For me that makes no sense considering how good of an addition UConn has been for the league (2xNC).

But it seems like the league overall dropped in quality after UConn joined even though UConn has performee really well.

The 2014-19 the Big East averaged 5.33 bids per year with 10 members

2021-24 it averaged 4.5 bids per year despite having one additional top notch program.

I really hope the Big East can go back to routinely getting 5-6 bids on an average year and 7 on a really good year like it did back in 2017.

I know quality of seeds matter a lot. But sending a lot of teams is also good so we can get those units $$$

Also, does any of this mean we are probably better off sticking at 11 than adding that 12th member? Or am I overthinking it? Not enough data?

 

[superjohn]

What I find odd over the past few years since Connecticut joined the Big East is that the league is averaging less bids overall than it did in its initial 6 years.

For me that makes no sense considering how good of an addition UConn has been for the league (2xNC).

But it seems like the league overall dropped in quality after UConn joined even though UConn has performee really well.

The 2014-19 the Big East averaged 5.33 bids per year with 10 members

2021-24 it averaged 4.5 bids per year despite having one additional top notch program.

I really hope the Big East can go back to routinely getting 5-6 bids on an average year and 7 on a really good year like it did back in 2017.

I know quality of seeds matter a lot. But sending a lot of teams is also good so we can get those units $$$

Also, does any of this mean we are probably better off sticking at 11 than adding that 12th member? Or am I overthinking it? Not enough data?

The drop off of Nova once Jay Wright retired and injuries to key players on teams that would've been tournament bound explains it.

 

[RuffRuff]

What I find odd over the past few years since Connecticut joined the Big East is that the league is averaging less bids overall than it did in its initial 6 years.

For me that makes no sense considering how good of an addition UConn has been for the league (2xNC).

But it seems like the league overall dropped in quality after UConn joined even though UConn has performee really well.

The 2014-19 the Big East averaged 5.33 bids per year with 10 members

2021-24 it averaged 4.5 bids per year despite having one additional top notch program.

I really hope the Big East can go back to routinely getting 5-6 bids on an average year and 7 on a really good year like it did back in 2017.

I know quality of seeds matter a lot. But sending a lot of teams is also good so we can get those units $$$

Not sure you’ve been paying attention but the collegiate landscape has changed significantly since 2014. There is thing called conference realignment, NIL and portal that’s generally minimizing non football conferences .

 

[shizzle787]

What I find odd over the past few years since Connecticut joined the Big East is that the league is averaging less bids overall than it did in its initial 6 years.

For me that makes no sense considering how good of an addition UConn has been for the league (2xNC).

But it seems like the league overall dropped in quality after UConn joined even though UConn has performee really well.

The 2014-19 the Big East averaged 5.33 bids per year with 10 members

2021-24 it averaged 4.5 bids per year despite having one additional top notch program.

I really hope the Big East can go back to routinely getting 5-6 bids on an average year and 7 on a really good year like it did back in 2017.

I know quality of seeds matter a lot. But sending a lot of teams is also good so we can get those units $$$

Also, does any of this mean we are probably better off sticking at 11 than adding that 12th member? Or am I overthinking it? Not enough data?

20 conference games= more losses on average. However, this will even itself out once the tournament expands in the next year or two.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Not sure you’ve been paying attention but the collegiate landscape has changed significantly since 2014. There is thing called conference realignment, NIL and portal that’s generally minimizing non football conferences .

The Big East has had a terrible run over that stretch, only winning 40% of the national championships.

 

[uconnfan68]

The Big East has had a terrible run over that stretch, only winning 40% of the national championships.

And some folks are bound to make sure that doesn’t happen anymore.