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Big East January '26 Thread

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Scottobot said:
refs were responsible for the comeback. Seton Hall was egregiously fouling in their half court press, and they couldn’t make many shots either outside of FT line.
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Coming attractions for our game there. It's what they do. But Hurley and staff know it's coming and will hopefully have them as ready as they can be.
 
How Sway?! said:
So if we lose to Creighton or SH are you going to say we aren't good either? Cause it looks to me like you are just moving the goalposts
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No, because we have 4 Q 1A wins. Not that complicated fella. Both those teams have very few if any impressive wins.
 
aceboon said:
That jumpball that SH forced on Schwartz to swing the possession arrow back their way swung the game, looked like SH was fouling the hell out of him on the sideline before the forced jumpball call
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It looked like it and it very well might have been, but Schwartz and Graves have a bad habit of embellishing contact and gyrating all over the place at the slightest of contact. They were doing it throughout the game and sometimes officials notice that and start ignoring when a player cries wolf so to speak. Zuby Ejiofor is the worst when it comes to this.

Having said all of that Seton Hall gets away with a lot on their home court
The way Creighton lost today gave me nightmares about how UConn lost at Seton Hall in the 2023 season.
 
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auror said:
Creighton missed last 9 shots and its a 2pt game.

This is a really important game for Creighton tournament resume.
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I think the Big East will get 5 bids, UConn, Villanova, and 3 of St. Johns, Butler, Creighton and Seton Hall, but things could break badly for the league for a bunch of reasons both in the league and in other leagues.

The number of bids will come down to how many games the bottom 5 teams, Providence, Marquette, Depaul, Xavier and Georgetown, win against the top 6. Providence is the biggest problem of that group, because that team doesn't suck. A 10 win Providence team probably means the Big East is only getting 4 bids.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I think the Big East will get 5 bids, UConn, Villanova, and 3 of St. Johns, Butler, Creighton and Seton Hall, but things could break badly for the league for a bunch of reasons both in the league and in other leagues.

The number of bids will come down to how many games the bottom 5 teams, Providence, Marquette, Depaul, Xavier and Georgetown, win against the top 6. Providence is the biggest problem of that group, because that team doesn't suck. A 10 win Providence team probably means the Big East is only getting 4 bids.
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Who cares at this point? Why do we care about the BE backing in a bunch of teams that can't win a game in the tourney? We are a program interested in championships, not conference mates getting 11 seeds.
 
RuffRuff said:
Who cares at this point? Why do we care about the BE backing in a bunch of teams that can't win a game in the tourney? We are a program interested in championships, not conference mates getting 11 seeds.
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If you don't care, then don't respond to the post. You and a few others want to dictate what everyone on this board talks about. I don't jump into every thread where you talk about Michigan and tell you to give it a rest. I mostly stay out of recruiting threads because the board "experts" that read an article somewhere that a 17 year old will be 10x better than Lebron and MJ combined completely lose their minds when someone doesn't go along with their knob polishing.

You can choose not to try to hijack every thread on the topic. Or not.
 
I get it - you are right. I guess I just don't know why we are so enthralled tracking whether the BE gets a couple 11 seeds into the tourney. I guess we would get some small split of the revenue.
 
RuffRuff said:
I get it - you are right. I guess I just don't know why we are so enthralled tracking whether the BE gets a couple 11 seeds into the tourney. I guess we would get some small split of the revenue.
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The small splits add up. An 11 seed that gets bounced in the first round by 40 still brings revenue in

More tournament success = more money and attention = better players want to come to the conference = better competition. It’s a win-win as long as other teams making it in don’t come at our expense
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Villanova has two losses that do not look bad at all, and if they hold on they will have two of their tougher Big East games in the bank already by 2 pm.
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Losing to Michigan isn't bad.

Getting slammed by 30 is.
 
Everyone else has, including top 10 Gonzaga, it doesn’t say that much about Nova especially when it was a true road game.
 
Travelman6 said:
Losing to Michigan isn't bad.

Getting slammed by 30 is.
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One of the weird developments of the last year or two is it seems like more games get completely out of control than has happened in the past. A team gets down 15-20 in the second half, and it seems to just give up on the game. Maybe it is the result of paying the players, where getting a player hurt on the wrong side of a blowout will get a coach fired and cost the player real money, but there are definitely more games getting completely out of control.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I think the Big East will get 5 bids, UConn, Villanova, and 3 of St. Johns, Butler, Creighton and Seton Hall, but things could break badly for the league for a bunch of reasons both in the league and in other leagues.

The number of bids will come down to how many games the bottom 5 teams, Providence, Marquette, Depaul, Xavier and Georgetown, win against the top 6. Providence is the biggest problem of that group, because that team doesn't suck. A 10 win Providence team probably means the Big East is only getting 4 bids.
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Feel like we may get 3 in Seton Hall, Nova, and us.

Everyone else sucked in OOC this year.
 
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superjohn said:
Coaches poll got it right ranking Nova top 25. Nova 26th and Seton Hall 27th in AP poll. They should both be ranked next week if they take care of business.
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Good to see Nova back on the scene - has to be a relief for Nova country after the Neptune era.
 
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