Big East December '25 Thread

[Gurleyman]

Marquette getting blown out in Omaha by Creighton by 26 with plenty time left in 2nd half.

I always thought Shaka Smart was a good coach and a reallying good game strategist and I still do. We know about his refusal to use the transfer portal, but his in game coaching has not been good either and certainly not in this game. His team looks undisciplined in addition to lacking skill and talent.

Also a little curious about Creighton - they were totally off the rails and then beat X by 40 and now this. Did McDermott figure something out?

 

[Sibeerian]

Watching Georgetown and Xavier right now and... yikes, not impressed.

 

[mike012]

Also a little curious about Creighton - they were totally off the rails and then beat X by 40 and now this. Did McDermott figure something out?

Yeah they are playing bad BE teams.

 

[Gurleyman]

Yeah they are playing bad BE teams.

Yeah. Very true. But the thing is - they were one too last week.

 

[Hamms30]

the tried and true Ed Cooley offense. Just run at the rim and let the refs bail us out.

 

[aboogieee]

yo.

 

[housekeys]

yo.

He hit a young boy sitting on mom's lap. Wow!

 

[Mets1432]

yo.

Can you imagine if Hurley did this? The national media would be calling for his firing. Outrageous

 

[RitzLuce1]

Watching Georgetown and Xavier right now and... yikes, not impressed.

Spectacularly bad basketball. Cooley is in Year 3 and GTown is still THIS bad?

 

[HooperScooper]

I was just looking at the boxscore and Xavier had 27 fouls called on them. Georgetown shot 43 free throws but lost because they only made 25 of them (58%). And KJ lewis was 9-9 so the rest of the team was 16-34 (47%). Yikes.

 

[auror]

yo.

This is borderline fireable, not even kidding.

 

[freescooter]

Nelson is gonna be furious with ESPN 😂

What, does Joe want to go to the American?

 

[freescooter]

Johnnie’s making the Dance?

 

[Leebo]

This is borderline fireable, not even kidding.

Yeah, hard to think of any excuse for that

 

[REB1094]

Don’t look now but Creighton has absolutely slaughtered Xavier and MU in their first two BE games. Butler, Seton Hall, and Nova next. They could make a strong statement soon despite a really bad OOC showing

GTown was looking really good. 5-0 with two solid wins against UMD and Clemson. Then it all fell apart. They’ll be fighting an uphill battle the rest of the year. Sad

 

[WestHartHusk]

Don’t look now but Creighton has absolutely slaughtered Xavier and MU in their first two BE games. Butler, Seton Hall, and Nova next. They could make a strong statement soon despite a really bad OOC showing

GTown was looking really good. 5-0 with two solid wins against UMD and Clemson. Then it all fell apart. They’ll be fighting an uphill battle the rest of the year. Sad

The statement would be that the BE is even worse than we thought.

 

[HW611]

Don’t look now but Creighton has absolutely slaughtered Xavier and MU in their first two BE games. Butler, Seton Hall, and Nova next. They could make a strong statement soon despite a really bad OOC showing

GTown was looking really good. 5-0 with two solid wins against UMD and Clemson. Then it all fell apart. They’ll be fighting an uphill battle the rest of the year. Sad

They’ve fell off ever since Vince got hurt. They now don’t have a formidable backup center and he played better than Julius at times.

Hes a super underrated loss for them.

 

[HW611]

yo.

Missing 4 straight FTs and still having the chance to tie on a 3 and missing that too is nuts.

Almost 20 missed FTs in a game lost by 3.

 

[willie99]

Creighton also moved from 112 to 79 in the NET.

By rolling a bad Marquette team at home? I'm not a metrics guy to begin with, but I understand the AD's on the selection committee love this stuff, especially when it serves them well. They become contortionists when they have to

But, I'm not going to pretend I understand a 33 spot move based on a blowout of a weak team at home. We can seemingly drop a few spots doing such. Evidently meaning we're not as good after the blowout than we were before the blowout. Yep, it all makes sense now ☺️

Anyhow, I;m happy for Creighton, I knew McDermott would figure things out. Wish it happened a little sooner, but it's going to happen

As far as the legendary Ed Cooley, the man has won 3 tournament games in his long career, even advanced to the Sweet 16 ONCE. I want Georgetown to do better, but he's a tad bit overrated

 

[JwittersPAC]

Yeah. Very true. But the thing is - they were one too last week.

It is like comparing bad to super bad. At some level know one cares. They just say they are bad.

 

[JwittersPAC]

This is borderline fireable, not even kidding.

This is Georgetown’s chance to fire him for cause and avoid any buyout payment. Unfortunately, Georgetown has stopped caring about the program since the 1980s.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

The journalists who freaked out over "two rings baldy" should be having aneurisms after seeing this, right? ... Right???

 

[Sibeerian]

Can you imagine if Hurley did this? The national media would be calling for his firing. Outrageous

Ed really lost his cooley

 

[John]

This is Georgetown’s chance to fire him for cause and avoid any buyout payment. Unfortunately, Georgetown has stopped caring about the program since the 1980s.

Wondering if A.I. Val will spring to life on this one.

 

[superjohn]

This is Georgetown’s chance to fire him for cause and avoid any buyout payment. Unfortunately, Georgetown has stopped caring about the program since the 1980s.

Cooley makes around 6 million per season. They cared enough to pay him that but it sure seems like someone else making that kind of money would do a significantly better job.