Big East February '26 Thread

[storrsroars]

PC wins the head to head then this could get interesting

Pretty sure Creighton needs to lose both remaining games to fall out of the 5th bye, but it's not impossible.

Remaining skeds:
Creighton (8-10) v Providence
Creighton @ Butler

Providence (6-11) @ Creighton
Providence v Marquette
Providence @ Georgetown

DePaul (7-10) @ Marquette
DePaul vs Villanova
DePaul vs Butler

 

[RuffRuff]

Y

Pretty sure Creighton needs to lose both remaining games to fall out of the 5th bye, but it's not impossible.

Remaining skeds:
Creighton (8-10) v Providence
Creighton @ Butler

Providence (6-11) @ Creighton
Providence v Marquette
Providence @ Georgetown

DePaul (7-10) @ Marquette
DePaul vs Villanova
DePaul vs Butler

They do - it all starts with the H2H with PC. They lose that, then they loses the season series (swept), and PC would only have to tie them with 8 wins. They'll win tie breaker at 8-12. Creighton can easily lose at Butler. Then PC just needs to win one of the last two.

 

[aceboon]

 

[HooperScooper]

She looks like she could outcoach English

 

[gsmooth]

Pretty sure Creighton needs to lose both remaining games to fall out of the 5th bye, but it's not impossible.

Remaining skeds:
Creighton (8-10) v Providence
Creighton @ Butler

Providence (6-11) @ Creighton
Providence v Marquette
Providence @ Georgetown

DePaul (7-10) @ Marquette
DePaul vs Villanova
DePaul vs Butler

Don't forget Villanova is at home vs St. John's this Saturday night.
Later edit: - St. John's is hosting Villanova this Saturday night on FOX. Thanks FightOnCT

 

[superjohn]

This made me spit my drink out.

 

[FightOnCT]

Don't forget Villanova is at home vs St. John's this Saturday night.

@ St. John’s

 

[storrsroars]

Don't forget Villanova is at home vs St. John's this Saturday night.
Later edit: - St. John's is hosting Villanova this Saturday night on FOX. Thanks FightOnCT

SJU has a bye quite comfortably

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Cooley has been incredibly disappointing.

I've been delighted by how he's done.

I'm not thrilled by how my reaction reflects poorly on me, but I'm not going to hide from my initial negative feelings about him running out on Providence, and those feelings have changed only to the extent that I now I enjoy his poor performance. His comments toward UConn fans and Hurley rub me the wrong way. They seem consistently smarmy, unless I'm allowed to say dickish.

 

[jibsey]

Don't forget Villanova is at home vs St. John's this Saturday night.
Later edit: - St. John's is hosting Villanova this Saturday night on FOX. Thanks FightOnCT

After the way we torched Nova away I don’t have a lot of confidence they will give St. John’s much trouble after last night’s beating. Pitino will have them frantic.

 

[BFieldHusky]

After the way we torched Nova away I don’t have a lot of confidence they will give St. John’s much trouble after last night’s beating. Pitino will have them frantic.

Agreed. I think the tougher game for St. John's will be at Seton Hall next Friday.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I could be alone, but the way I see it, it really doesn't matter how St John's finishes the season. If we do what we needed to do (not a big ask), we will at worst have a share of the regular season title.

We can win the BET just as easily if we're the two seed as we can if we end up the one seed. I'm no more afraid of a potential semifinal matchup with Nova than I am with a semifinal matchup with any other BE school.

 

[DFW HOYA]

I've been delighted by how he's done. I'm not thrilled by how my reaction reflects poorly on me, but I'm not going to hide from my initial negative feelings about him running out on Providence, and those feelings have changed only to the extent that I now I enjoy his poor performance. His comments toward UConn fans and Hurley rub me the wrong way. They seem consistently smarmy, unless I'm allowed to say dickish.

He's not the problem, though the roster construction is poor. The program is really struggling to maintain viability amidst a declining fan base.

 

[superjohn]

The Georgetown Club of Metropolitan Washington DC. (25,000)

 

[DFW HOYA]

Thanks for the AI. I'll rely on what was provided by the club over Google.

Where this gets understandably cloudy is the number of degree and certificate holders outside the undergraduate sphere who lived in DC while studying, graduate, then drop off the alumni rolls. Maybe they're in-town, maybe they moved. But if there were 50,000 alumni, where are they?

 

[bendm]

He's not the problem, though the roster construction is poor. The program is really struggling to maintain viability amidst a declining fan base.

Are you a self loathing Hoya?

 

[superjohn]

Thanks for the AI. I'll rely on what was provided by the club over Google.

Where this gets understandably cloudy is the number of degree and certificate holders outside the undergraduate sphere who lived in DC while studying, graduate, then drop off the alumni rolls. Maybe they're in-town, maybe they moved. But if there were 50,000 alumni, where are they?

This site has them at 51,000 living in the area as of 2017. Not sure if that's where AI is getting it from. Your # is way low, it doesn't even make sense.

 

[uconngb]

After what happened with Cooley leaving for another BE job? Yes, they would.

Another completely clueless comment by our friend Ruff Ruff. They would lose ZERO sleep over doing that after what Georgetown and Cooley pulled on them. Nor should they.

This is a business

 

[DFW HOYA]

This site has them at 51,000 living in the area as of 2017. Not sure if that's where AI is getting it from. Your # is way low, it doesn't even make sense.

Last point on this: Georgetown only graduates about 1600 undergraduates a year: roughly one-third stay in DC after school, one-third go to NYC, and one-third go everywhere else, but when you start talking about post-grads and certificate holders (some of whom have more than one degree), it gets cloudy.

 

[FriarJ]

Last point on this: Georgetown only graduates about 1600 undergraduates a year: roughly one-third stay in DC after school, one-third go to NYC, and one-third go everywhere else, but when you start talking about post-grads and certificate holders (some of whom have more than one degree), it gets cloudy.

Georgetown never was a school with great alumni presence at games. They were a school that uniquely appealed to the Black community around the country. They were DC’s team more than they were Georgetowns. That’s gone now and with the way DC has changed the last 30 years it’s not coming back. The majority of kids that attend Georgetown outside of the athletes simply don’t give two craps about sports.

Georgetown is one of the schools that counts tickets sold and not turnstile. The actual game attendance is way below these numbers. They announced 4,400 for Marquette when there could not have been 2,000 people there.

 

[superjohn]

Georgetown never was a school with great alumni presence at games. They were a school that uniquely appealed to the Black community around the country. They were DC’s team more than they were Georgetowns. That’s gone now and with the way DC has changed the last 30 years it’s not coming back. The majority of kids that attend Georgetown outside of the athletes simply don’t give two craps about sports.

Georgetown is one of the schools that counts tickets sold and not turnstile. The actual game attendance is way below these numbers. They announced 4,400 for Marquette when there could not have been 2,000 people there.

Your first part of the post is true but the fans will come out if they're good. There's nothing unique about Georgetown or the area. People don't get invested in a terrible products, if the program gets good again the fans will be there.

 

[RuffRuff]

Georgetown never was a school with great alumni presence at games. They were a school that uniquely appealed to the Black community around the country. They were DC’s team more than they were Georgetowns. That’s gone now and with the way DC has changed the last 30 years it’s not coming back. The majority of kids that attend Georgetown outside of the athletes simply don’t give two craps about sports.

Georgetown is one of the schools that counts tickets sold and not turnstile. The actual game attendance is way below these numbers. They announced 4,400 for Marquette when there could not have been 2,000 people there.

The worst thing that Gtown could have done was pass the buck to JT3 and gone to that Princeton offense. Talk about losing your edginess. The brand design of GTown at it's height was that it was this country club of a school, with a hoops team that felt like they could win a knife fight.

 

[BFieldHusky]

The worst thing that Gtown could have done was pass the buck to JT3 and gone to that Princeton offense. Talk about losing your edginess. The brand design of GTown at it's height was that it was this country club of a school, with a hoops team that felt like they could win a knife fight.

GTown was pretty good under JT3.

 

[FriarJ]

Your first part of the post is true but the fans will come out if they're good. There's nothing unique about Georgetown or the area. People don't get invested in a terrible products, if the program gets good again the fans will be there.

I agree but there is a lot going on in DC sports wise now. They not only have to win, but they need to put an exciting product out there. Cooley has not done either and will never do the latter, and what was pointed out to me recently is that JT 3’s Princeton offense did them no favors either.

 

[RuffRuff]

GTown was pretty good under JT3.

Being pretty good and playing a bland, dull style of basketball isn't upholding the brand that school was built on. Brutal hire.