Big East December '25 Thread

[nelsonmuntz]

Ejiofor can dominate a game like few others in college basketball. He is a perfect center for the modern game.

 

[MJKI]

This St. John’s roster construction is so terrible. No spacing, no one to run the offense and two black holes at the 4/5. They simultaneously can’t create offense but also can’t run a set

 

[KingAG]

Can’t tell if SJ’s defense has improved or if Ole Miss just sucks

 

[MJKI]

Can’t tell if SJ’s defense has improved or if Ole Miss just sucks

Ole Miss is so bad. Also a reminder to all that AJ Storr is officially in his 8th different school in 8 years

 

[MJKI]

Donny Marshall is so bad as an announcer. Always looking to validate bad calls by the ref

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Ole Miss is playing a 1990's style defense of packing the paint, and St. Johns can't make them pay.

 

[Leebo]

Just looking at the box score, but it looks like Ole Miss's starters have largely been benched?

 

[KingAG]

This game is ugly

 

[ninety-nine]

Come on, St. John's. At least win this one.

 

[superjohn]

I just turned the game on for the first time and the St. John's guy rifled a pass off the back of his teammates head, Ole Miss raced down the court and turned it over, St. John's raced back down the court and turned it over, and then Sellers tackled the Ole Miss guy.

 

[KingAG]

I think I may end up feeling worse about St John’s after a win. I’m not familiar with Ole Miss but they look terrible

 

[uconngb]

DePaul losing to Ark Pine Bluff….if that holds up shouldn’t that alone be justification to boot them??

 

[superjohn]

Darling got fouled about 5 times before they called it. That's after he went up for a layup and the dude grabbed his arm to keep him from jumping with no foul called.

 

[ninety-nine]

DePaul losing to Ark Pine Bluff….if that holds up shouldn’t that alone be justification to boot them??

Can't let that happen, DePaul. The damned team is 1-8 and mired in Quad 4.

 

[gsmooth]

Ole Miss is so bad. Also a reminder to all that AJ Storr is officially in his 8th different school in 8 years

Yup and carrying his loser ways to every school he goes to. He was awful. All he does is look to get his.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

#35 Benson is carrying Depaul's offense in this dreck. He is listed at 6'8, 235. LOL. Maybe he is 250, more likely over 260.

The most absurd part of this score is that it is basically a professional team against an amateur team, and the pro team was losing. I am sure that Depaul is on the low end of the pay scale for major conference teams, but UAPB is not on the pay scale at all. UAPB is likely scholarships, and that's it.

And FWIW, the refs are doing their part to help Depaul. Depaul is getting away with a lot of contact on defense.

 

[HooperScooper]

Why is Sanon still starting for St. John's? He just doesn't look good.

 

[Tiamat7]

Villanova looking solid, but three power conference games coming up. Amazing what a competent coach like Willard can do for a program.

 

[aceboon]

It is way too early to tell if that will be a Q3 loss.

Yea Boise State made a big climb with the win, Boise does well pretty much every year in the MWC, with what they showed yesterday I'd imagine the same this year.

 

[HooperScooper]

Yea Boise State made a big climb with the win, Boise does well pretty much every year in the MWC, with what they showed yesterday I'd imagine the same this year.

Butler was 22 before yesterday?

 

[shizzle787]

Butler was 22 before yesterday?

Yes

 

[John]

Maybe Shaka is just not that good of a coach. He was a bust at Texas.

This is all very Texasesque

 

[REB1094]

Yea Boise State made a big climb with the win, Boise does well pretty much every year in the MWC, with what they showed yesterday I'd imagine the same this year.

Moving up 35 spots for beating Butler is wildddddd lmao

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I know I am going to sound old, but I am seeing a lot of poor effort in games by big time teams. Creighton’s effort in the first half has been terrible. Just lazy basketball on both ends. Not sprinting back on D, lazy cuts on offense, sloppy passes, absolutely no boxing out. I blamed the stupid shot selection and lack of fundamental execution on McDermott in another thread, but maybe it is not his fault.

The entitlement of these kids is off the charts. Creighton is paying a bunch of 20-somethings about $4 or $5 million collectively, and they look annoyed to be there.

McDermott should go full Calhoun and yank all the starters. Play walk ons before tolerating this garbage.

 

[REB1094]

Georgetown is in it at North Carolina. Only down 5 at halftime

Opposite story for Creighton. Getting smacked by 14 at halftime against Nebraska