Big East Games Thread - Feb '25

[nelsonmuntz]

Above winning the league? Quite the take.

Even so a loss on the road at Villanova doesn’t do much to hurt this endeavor

A lot has to happen for UConn to win the league, and if those things all happen, UConn drops a seed line or two even if the Huskies win out. There is still a high probability that even if there is an upset or two of the other top teams in the league, UConn still won’t win the Big East. You guys are rooting to draw three cards for an inside straight for UConn to back into a conference co-championship.

I would like UConn to win out, and for its schedule to hold up enough to justify a 5 or maybe even 4 seed. Others want chaos that will still likely result in no Big East title, and for UConn to have a 7 seed.

To each their own.

 

[AntG168]

A lot has to happen for UConn to win the league, and if those things all happen, UConn drops a seed line or two even if the Huskies win out. There is still a high probability that even if there is an upset or two of the other top teams in the league, UConn still won’t win the Big East. You guys are rooting to draw three cards for an inside straight for UConn to back into a conference co-championship.

I would like UConn to win out, and for its schedule to hold up enough to justify a 5 or maybe even 4 seed. Others want chaos that will still likely result in no Big East title, and for UConn to have a 7 seed.

To each their own.

You’re wrong. There is no scenario better than UConn winning out and winning the conference.

The “chaos” you speak of is Creighton and UConn beating St. John’s and Creighton losing to Xavier or St. John’s beating Creighton and losing to UConn and Marquette. That isn’t chaos. Unless you thought the viability of the conference depended on St. John’s going 19-1 or 18-2. 4 losses is a respectable number of losses for a conference champ

 

[uconngb]

A lot has to happen for UConn to win the league, and if those things all happen, UConn drops a seed line or two even if the Huskies win out. There is still a high probability that even if there is an upset or two of the other top teams in the league, UConn still won’t win the Big East. You guys are rooting to draw three cards for an inside straight for UConn to back into a conference co-championship.

I would like UConn to win out, and for its schedule to hold up enough to justify a 5 or maybe even 4 seed. Others want chaos that will still likely result in no Big East title, and for UConn to have a 7 seed.

To each their own.

I would honestly love to see a CT scan of your brain…..it has to be so jumbled and scrambled in there. Either that or just plain empty.

Either way would be a gift to science

 

[HooperScooper]

I would honestly love to see a CT scan of your brain…..it has to be so jumbled and scrambled in there. Either that or just plain empty.

Either way would be a gift to science

Should he change his Boneyard name to Abby Muntz?

 

[AllHusky]

There is a contingent that likes to hit the spreadsheets to see how decimals move for our NET, then there is another that favors the more traditional opportunity to win our league. Pick your poison.

Winners win

 

[RuffRuff]

Winners win

So simple, yet so powerful

 

[7774]

A lot has to happen for UConn to win the league, and if those things all happen, UConn drops a seed line or two even if the Huskies win out. There is still a high probability that even if there is an upset or two of the other top teams in the league, UConn still won’t win the Big East. You guys are rooting to draw three cards for an inside straight for UConn to back into a conference co-championship.

I would like UConn to win out, and for its schedule to hold up enough to justify a 5 or maybe even 4 seed. Others want chaos that will still likely result in no Big East title, and for UConn to have a 7 seed.

To each their own.

I guess with those specific seeds you’ve already figured out how the tournament committee is going to handle missing a guy for 8 games that put up 38/10 in his 2nd game back, so that’s cool.

 

[RuffRuff]

I guess with those specific seeds you’ve already figured out how the tournament committee is going to handle missing a guy for 8 games that put up 38/10 in his 2nd game back, so that’s cool.

All the mumbo jumbo on other teams doing this or that has puny impact as long as we win. How anyone gives more a cr@p about decimals moving on spreadsheets over having a chance to win a BE title is ridiculous.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

All the mumbo jumbo on other teams doing this or that has puny impact as long as we win. How anyone gives more a cr@p about decimals moving on spreadsheets over having a chance to win a BE title is ridiculous.

I heard you the first three times you said this, and you are wrong. A few things:

1) It is not just about the NET.
2) UConn needs high quality wins, and the best path forward on that is for St. Johns, Creighton and Marquette to only lose to each other. Texas and Baylor are both on the bubble if you look at their remaining schedules.
3) For UConn to back into a Big East co-title, a very precise set of outcomes needs to occur. For example, if Creighton beats St. Johns on Sunday, the path to a Big East regular season title for UConn gets very narrow, but you think we should hope for Butler to turn our Quad 1's into Quad 2's because there is still a chance.

I want UConn to win, and if it pulls the inside straight and somehow Marquette, Creighton and St. Johns beat each other in the correct order, great. I am not going to root for Providence to turn our quality wins into less quality wins. That is honestly just freaking stupid, and shouldn't need to be explained.

 

[RuffRuff]

I heard you the first three times you said this, and you are wrong. A few things:

1) It is not just about the NET.
2) UConn needs high quality wins, and the best path forward on that is for St. Johns, Creighton and Marquette to only lose to each other. Texas and Baylor are both on the bubble if you look at their remaining schedules.
3) For UConn to back into a Big East co-title, a very precise set of outcomes needs to occur. For example, if Creighton beats St. Johns on Sunday, the path to a Big East regular season title for UConn gets very narrow, but you think we should hope for Butler to turn our Quad 1's into Quad 2's because there is still a chance.

I want UConn to win, and if it pulls the inside straight and somehow Marquette, Creighton and St. Johns beat each other in the correct order, great. I am not going to root for Providence to turn our quality wins into less quality wins. That is honestly just freaking stupid, and shouldn't need to be explained.

Bro what are you trying to achieve here in simple terms? A 5 seed vs a 6? Like how big a swing can there feasibly be at this point in our seed potential by what other teams do, versus what we can do most ourselves?

Just win.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I guess with those specific seeds you’ve already figured out how the tournament committee is going to handle missing a guy for 8 games that put up 38/10 in his 2nd game back, so that’s cool.

Let's see. UConn beats a good Marquette team on the road without McNeeley, then loses to St. Johns at home with McNeeley, then beats Creighton on the road with McNeeley. Also, all the ugly losses at the beginning of the season occurred with McNeeley. Not sure how the Committee is going to think about that, or about the fact that UConn's point guard may not be 100% again this season, but it sounds like you have a direct line into the Committee's thought processes so please share.

I guess one way we could test how important this player is and whether UConn should get a mulligan for the games lost when McNeeley was hurt is for UConn to play some highly rated competition in the final weeks. But wait, you also want Creighton, Marquette and St. Johns to get picked off by Seton Hall, Depaul and Providence, so those wins will not be as impressive and the Committee will not know how to treat McNeeley's injury.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Bro what are you trying to achieve here in simple terms? A 5 seed vs a 6? Like how big a swing can there feasibly be at this point in our seed potential by what other teams do, versus what we can do most ourselves?

Just win.

It is not controversial for a UConn fan to want the teams it played to stay good so UConn would look better for beating them. The problem is that 2 of UConn's OOC losses (Colorado and Dayton by 18) look tragic at this point in the season, and the quality wins: Texas, Baylor and Gonzaga are all stumbling to the finish line. UConn has Seton Hall (x2), Providence and Georgetown left to further damage our SOS, so just winning may not be enough for a good seed. We need our quality wins to hold up to avoid a really ugly seeding.

 

[superjohn]

Bro what are you trying to achieve here in simple terms? A 5 seed vs a 6? Like how big a swing can there feasibly be at this point in our seed potential by what other teams do, versus what we can do most ourselves?

Just win.

His brain is broken, don't bother.

 

[Hunt for 7]

Bro what are you trying to achieve here in simple terms? A 5 seed vs a 6? Like how big a swing can there feasibly be at this point in our seed potential by what other teams do, versus what we can do most ourselves?

Just win.

I believe the takes are purposely ridiculous and he/she likes to see our reactions. There is no way his posts are meant to make any relative or valid points.

He is like a human reaction meter. He tests all of our patience and keeps at it until we bite and start either insulting or our posts make it seem he/shenhas gotten under our skin.

Now if so of you know this person really exists and have met him then please let me know. If that is the case than I would start with @HooperScooper’s illustration in the above post.

This has to be purposeful trolling. I think he is actually getting better at it last year he was way more obvious. But I see he has been doing it for 14 years so maybe last year was just a bad year.

 

[bendm]

We need our quality wins to hold up to avoid a really ugly seeding.

Winning the BE gets us a #1 seed in the BET and I bet Winning that will help our seedline

 

[7774]

Let's see. UConn beats a good Marquette team on the road without McNeeley, then loses to St. Johns at home with McNeeley, then beats Creighton on the road with McNeeley. Also, all the ugly losses at the beginning of the season occurred with McNeeley. Not sure how the Committee is going to think about that, or about the fact that UConn's point guard may not be 100% again this season, but it sounds like you have a direct line into the Committee's thought processes so please share.

I guess one way we could test how important this player is and whether UConn should get a mulligan for the games lost when McNeeley was hurt is for UConn to play some highly rated competition in the final weeks. But wait, you also want Creighton, Marquette and St. Johns to get picked off by Seton Hall, Depaul and Providence, so those wins will not be as impressive and the Committee will not know how to treat McNeeley's injury.

It’s so cool you know all this stuff.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Winning the BE gets us a #1 seed in the BET and I bet Winning that will help our seedline

Are we putting all of our eggs into that basket?

 

[Umami Zen]

Q1 wins are gold. Hold serve at home by winning and steal some away games going into BET.See a floor of 5-2 before BET.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Look, all we can do is control our own destiny. There are seven games left in the league. The next is vs. Seton Hall. Win it. Then we have Villanova, who just knocked off St. John’s. Better win that one too, we already lost to them once.

Our problem isn’t Maui as much as it is the losses to Xavier and Villanova. Need to redeem that loss Villanova first and foremost. Winning out probably has us in that 5-6 seed line. Winning the BET also? Might be as high as 3 or 4.

 

[uconngb]

Are we putting all of our eggs into that basket?

Into the basket of wins?? Yes

 

[jibsey]

Winning out only gets us to the 5-6 seed line? Because our losses are not “good losses” like other leagues that are deemed better? Some off those teams are going to get 2-3-4 seeds because they were beaten by ranked teams in a subjective system, and we get penalized for not having our best player for 9 games? And BTW 3 of our losses are when the kid just about first stepped on a college basketball floor? And several bad losses were razor thin.
9 teams are currently ranked in the “great“ SEC conference. 6 of them have 7, 6, and 5 losses. What are their seeds going to be?

 

[cullaville]

I heard you the first three times you said this, and you are wrong. A few things:

1) It is not just about the NET.
2) UConn needs high quality wins, and the best path forward on that is for St. Johns, Creighton and Marquette to only lose to each other. Texas and Baylor are both on the bubble if you look at their remaining schedules.
3) For UConn to back into a Big East co-title, a very precise set of outcomes needs to occur. For example, if Creighton beats St. Johns on Sunday, the path to a Big East regular season title for UConn gets very narrow, but you think we should hope for Butler to turn our Quad 1's into Quad 2's because there is still a chance.

I want UConn to win, and if it pulls the inside straight and somehow Marquette, Creighton and St. Johns beat each other in the correct order, great. I am not going to root for Providence to turn our quality wins into less quality wins. That is honestly just freaking stupid, and shouldn't need to be explained.

If UCONN wins the Big East Title they will not have "BACKED IN" They will have won more games than the other teams in the conference.

 

[ctbro1999]

Winning out only gets us to the 5-6 seed line? Because our losses are not “good losses” like other leagues that are deemed better? Some off those teams are going to get 2-3-4 seeds because they were beaten by ranked teams in a subjective system, and we get penalized for not having our best player for 9 games? And BTW 3 of our losses are when the kid just about first stepped on a college basketball floor? And several bad losses were razor thin.
9 teams are currently ranked in the “great“ SEC conference. 6 of them have 7, 6, and 5 losses. What are their seeds going to be?

Lol whoever believes our ceiling is a 5 even if we win out is smoking crack. If we run the table through the BET, I think at worst we get a 3 seed. Possibly a #2 depending on how other teams do, but probably above a 3 is out of reach.

This season sorta reminds me of 2011 in that we were a talented team, but things just didn't click for a chunk of the season. Though the 2011 team was really good for the first 2/3rds of the season, then went in the crapper the last 1/3rd before recovering and running the table in the BET and then the NCAAT. I'm hoping this year's team is more like the '22 team than the '11 team as far as finishing the regular season, though I'll be fine with the same end result.

 

[superjohn]

I believe the takes are purposely ridiculous and he/she likes to see our reactions. There is no way his posts are meant to make any relative or valid points.

He is like a human reaction meter. He tests all of our patience and keeps at it until we bite and start either insulting or our posts make it seem he/shenhas gotten under our skin.

Now if so of you know this person really exists and have met him then please let me know. If that is the case than I would start with @HooperScooper’s illustration in the above post.

This has to be purposeful trolling. I think he is actually getting better at it last year he was way more obvious. But I see he has been doing it for 14 years so maybe last year was just a bad year.

Nah, it's somehow much sadder than that.

 

[jibsey]

Lol whoever believes our ceiling is a 5 even if we win out is smoking crack. If we run the table through the BET, I think at worst we get a 3 seed. Possibly a #2 depending on how other teams do, but probably above a 3 is out of reach.

This season sorta reminds me of 2011 in that we were a talented team, but things just didn't click for a chunk of the season. Though the 2011 team was really good for the first 2/3rds of the season, then went in the crapper the last 1/3rd before recovering and running the table in the BET and then the NCAAT. I'm hoping this year's team is more like the '22 team than the '11 team as far as finishing the regular season, though I'll be fine with the same end result.

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