Big East championship week …..

[AntG168]

Donny Marshall tries way too hard to be objective. He said Marquette was the team to beat in the BET. Like come on

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Steele is one of those situations where they can wait for the coach to run the program into the ground, which Steele will, or they can make a move now. Xavier is not a terrible team, but Steele is not a winner and therefore Xavier will not be a winner under Steele.

I posted that a year ago.

There is no excuse for Xavier not making the Tournament with a team this talented. Xavier should make a move.

 

[UCLJ0211]

Don’t forget GTown won it all last year. It’s a whole new season in the BET. Wouldn’t be surprised to see more upsets.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Scruggs giveth, Scruggs taketh away

Love your work, Jeff.

 

[MexicoHusky]

Is Donny Marshall a hanging candidate?

 

[AntG168]

Losing 8 of 10 is terrible

 

[Hamms30]

I'm color blind. Is his suit green? Or are the pinstripes messing with me?

 

[AntG168]

This game should be fun

 

[87Xfer]

I'm color blind. Is his suit green? Or are the pinstripes messing with me?

who?

 

[Hamms30]

who?

Marshall's

 

[MexicoHusky]

Marshall's

I'm a Macy's guy

 

[Big East Fa]

Donny Marshall tries way too hard to be objective. He said Marquette was the team to beat in the BET. Like come on

Hey now.

 

[Tenspro2002]

I don't think I've ever seen a coach go from "should be safe for at least 3-4 years" to "could plausibly get fired" this quickly outside of legal problems or NCAA violations.

8 weeks ago they were in the top 25 and easily brushing off the "choker" label that was put on them last year. Now it's 2 years in a row, with the loss ostensibly* because the star player didn't understand the coach's instructions to foul (or not) at the end.

*yes, in theory, Butler could have scored a 2 or a 3, or gotten fouled otherwise, on their last possession in regulation, but that play really sums up the end of the season for Xavier

 

[HuskyHawk]

Travis Steele sucks, his team's

Had to foul? Typo?

If he doesn’t foul, the kid he fouls has 4 seconds and is wide open at the 3 point line down two. That kid doesn’t miss those. Xavier blew it in so many ways.

 

[AntG168]

I don't think I've ever seen a coach go from "should be safe for at least 3-4 years" to "could plausibly get fired" this quickly outside of legal problems or NCAA violations.

8 weeks ago they were in the top 25 and easily brushing off the "choker" label that was put on them last year. Now it's 2 years in a row, with the loss ostensibly* because the star player didn't understand the coach's instructions to foul (or not) at the end.

*yes, in theory, Butler could have scored a 2 or a 3, or gotten fouled otherwise, on their last possession in regulation, but that play really sums up the end of the season for Xavier

As a 5th year senior you have to now the situation. Fouling up 2 with less than 20 seconds is idiotic. He panicked

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Depaul vs. St. Johns could be a 20 point win by either team and I would not be surprised. Both teams play a little out of control on offense at times and neither is a great shooting team. This will be fun to watch.

 

[superjohn]

If he doesn’t foul, the kid he fouls has 4 seconds and is wide open at the 3 point line down two. That kid doesn’t miss those. Xavier blew it in so many ways.

You never ever foul at half court with 4 seconds left when you're up 2. That's like the biggest brain fart you can possibly have in a basketball game at any level.

 

[shizzle787]

Disappointing the league is likely to only get six teams in now. Xavier doesn't choke tonight and St. John's doesn't choke at DePaul and against Pitt, and we would get 8 in.

 

[connVA]

Donny Marshall tries way too hard to be objective. He said Marquette was the team to beat in the BET. Like come on

I just think it's a commentator trying to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, which always drives me nuts. Why would you declare a team that's lost 4 of 6 the team to beat? In comparison to UConn winning 5 of 6, Providence taking the regular season title, and Villanova being Villanova? Makes total sense...

 

[AntG168]

St John’s can give Nova problems. I wanna see it

 

[Peacefrog]

Supposedly they no longer put any emphasis on late season performance. We'll see.

 

[AntG168]

SJ looks good

 

[AntG168]

Julian Champaigne OMG

 

[elmcityboy]

st. john's looking dangerous