Big East Games Thread - Feb 25

[RuffRuff]

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?

Winning out will get us a high 3 seed.

The selection committee is not going to ignore things like getting hot late, being much better with Liam back. They’re not robots staring at cells in excel exclusively, there is some subjective reasoning involved.

Purdue has been flagged as a 2 seed and they have 6 losses. Yes better SOS but will have more losses.

 

[gtcam]

UConn has to play the remaining schedule that lies in front of them not worrying about who beats who outside their own 4 walls. Then they have to beat all those they face in the NBE tournament. The next step is to beat all those they draw in the Dance. SIMPLE. No scenarios, no seedings, no conspiracies. Simply take care of business day by day, game by game. If they trip and fall - guess what? - it's their fault, not the committee, not the refs, not Nelson's sometimes mumble jumble, not uconnjb, not gtcam's cheering/swearing/anxiety/idiocy - its up to DH, the staff and the players. These threads are a waste of time and energy IMHO

 

[auror]

Winning out will get us a high 3 seed.

The selection committee is not going to ignore things like getting hot late, being much better with Liam back. They’re not robots staring at cells in excel exclusively, there is some subjective reasoning involved.

Purdue has been flagged as a 2 seed and they have 6 losses. Yes better SOS but will have more losses.

Yeah winning out will have a compounding effect with Liam's injury consideration. Ironically the more we win with him now, the more weight they will give to his injury, but the less we need them to consider it.

 

[RuffRuff]

UConn has to play the remaining schedule that lies in front of them not worrying about who beats who outside their own 4 walls. Then they have to beat all those they face in the NBE tournament. The next step is to beat all those they draw in the Dance. SIMPLE. No scenarios, no seedings, no conspiracies. Simply take care of business day by day, game by game. If they trip and fall - guess what? - it's their fault, not the committee, not the refs, not Nelson's sometimes mumble jumble, not uconnjb, not gtcam's cheering/swearing/anxiety/idiocy - its up to DH, the staff and the players. These threads are a waste of time and energy IMHO

Uconn will be favored in every game the rest of the BE season other than at StJ. I like our chances there with Liam back full strength having seen their defense recently, in a revenge match, and the fact we have played much better on the road (although hard to call that a true road game). They'll also likely be without Devion Smith. One game at a time, but I generally like the outlook.

 

[FlippinCrazy!]

I’m convinced the Big East screwed our schedule on purpose, in terms of home games on weekends. They didn’t give us a lot cause they know we’ll sell lots of seats on a random Wednesday regardless, and they know opposing teams will pack the stadiums for us on weekends. I mean look at Georgetown, didn’t they sell like 10-12k more seats than their average or something when we came to town?

 

[connVA]

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.

Not sure if it’s realistic but need to get to at least the 4 seed to (virtually) guarantee a slot in the Providence pod for the first weekend

 

[bendm]

Are we putting all of our eggs into that basket?

If we get the 1 seed and don’t make it at least to the BET finals I’m not gonna be complaining about our seedline much

 

[aceboon]

 

[ctbro1999]

We had Kemba. Now we have Liam.

We had Cardiac Kemba....what can McNeeley become?

 

[RuffRuff]

We had Cardiac Kemba....what can McNeeley become?

Oh he's becoming something alright.

Big Mac Tonight
Momentous McNeeley
The McGician

 

[BFieldHusky]

Rumor is they rushed him back and he reinjured it.

 

[gsmooth]

Oh he's becoming something alright.

Big Mac Tonight
Momentous McNeeley
The McGician

I personally like Money Mac.

I know that is what they call the Cincinnati Bengals FG kick Evan McPherson, but this season he was Garbage Mac. Rightfully he loses the Money Mac name and it goes to Liam McNeeley.

 

[jibsey]

Rumor is they rushed him back and he reinjured it.

Almost 10 points and 5 rebounds.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Rumor is they rushed him back and he reinjured it.

Probably not bruised ...

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Stick a fork in Creighton. This Kalkbrenner injury looks bad.

The play that caused it was not a flagrant, but still kind of a dirty play that SJU should not have done. Kalk wasn't in the air, but it was a smaller player going low at Kalk's legs. I have seen punches thrown in pickup game for much less.

 

[RuffRuff]

Stick a fork in Creighton. This Kalkbrenner injury looks bad.

The play that caused it was not a flagrant, but still kind of a dirty play that SJU should not have done. Kalk wasn't in the air, but it was a smaller player going low at Kalk's legs. I have seen punches thrown in pickup game for much less.

Lower half was taken out, from behind.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

• That was as bush league a play as I can remember.
• I would have been nice if we were allowed to play Creighton over the past few years as physical as they are allowing St John's today.
• Not only are they actually calling fouls on Creighton when they do foul, they've called a couple on them when they didn't foul.

 

[uconn_jack]

Stick a fork in Creighton. This Kalkbrenner injury looks bad.

The play that caused it was not a flagrant, but still kind of a dirty play that SJU should not have done. Kalk wasn't in the air, but it was a smaller player going low at Kalk's legs. I have seen punches thrown in pickup game for much less.

Jumped the gun a little.....

 

[jibsey]

• That was as bush league a play as I can remember.
• I would have been nice if we were allowed to play Creighton over the past few years as physical as they are allowing St John's today.
• Not only are they actually calling fouls on Creighton when they do foul, they've called a couple on them when they didn't foul.

St. John’s = Thug play. You have to know that going in.

 

[huskyharry]

• That was as bush league a play as I can remember.
• I would have been nice if we were allowed to play Creighton over the past few years as physical as they are allowing St John's today.
• Not only are they actually calling fouls on Creighton when they do foul, they've called a couple on them when they didn't foul.

St Johns was allowed to slam hard into shooters with their chest/trunk.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Jumped the gun a little.....

We can count on you to point out if part of someone’s post is incorrect. Thank you for your service.

 

[auror]

That's a strange play, it looks like the St. John's guy was hooking and holding, but then let go as Kalkbrenner jumped into the air to sell the call and he ended up pulling the rug out from under him.

 

[3rdbass]

Of course Seton Hall is turning into a toad after beating us. Marquette is up 17 in the first half. LOL!

 

[aceboon]

Of course Seton Hall is turning into a toad after beating us. Marquette is up 17 in the first half. LOL!

they were a toad on Saturday