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[QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4138505, member: 181"]
[USER=1522]@superjohn[/USER]'s FTFY that changed NBE to Big East (for the purpose of this thread, no opinion implied) led me to curiosity about how many bids will be earned by former Big East basketball members:

Syracuse
Pitt
Virginia Tech
Louisville
Notre Dame
Miami
Boston College University
West Virginia
Rutgers
Cincinnati
South Florida

As conference play begins, I'd say 3 or 4. That, of course, could change, and still add up to fewer teams than from the current Big East.

I don't have a prediction for our conference record, because I find that it interferes with my shameless boosterism, but I'm quite mindful that only 7 or fewer losses would allow the team to finish the season with fewer than 10 TOTAL losses, unless we win either the BET or NC.

I marvel that for so many years I came to routinely think of seasons in terms of Sweet 16 as a minimum and 9 or fewer losses as a maximum.

It's humbling and exciting to recontemplate the possibility of such metrics, in addition to Top 25 rankings after many years of thinking in terms of Top 10.
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