Same. You want to see what you look like against teams that matter. This upcoming stretch is the pinnacle of our season other than the tournament. How many BE games are going to be really exciting this year?
I think St. John's will be tougher than any of our upcoming opponents and we'll probably face them three times.
Wasn't their backup PG Dylan Darling injured?
Debateable. Pitino does need time with this group. I think the toughest team we play in this stretch is Zona. Illinois might be second.
Probably about 6 of them. That’s not to say we couldn’t get an unfortunately exciting game on any given night, but St. John’s, Creighton, Marquette (maybe) each x2 are the only ones that stand out ahead of time, as of today, to me.
Creighton looked very slow against Gonzaga. I think this is a building year for Creighton.
I could never under not rooting for a conference mate OOC .
Yes but my point was lack of point guard play wasn't why they lost. They had no problems on offense and scored a ton, Bama scored even more. They lost because they couldn't contain Bama's guards at all. Nobody played defense that game.
I don't think much at all of this Marquette roster and I have no idea what Shaka is doing. The AD and boosters need to tell him to quit with his no portal thing or they're going to start looking elsewhere. That school spends a tremendous amount of money on basketball and he refuses to get with the times. It also looks like he already has his roster buttoned up for next season. We're way better than Creighton this season but it will always be really difficult winning in Omaha.
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You’re probably right about Marquette and my view of them is just holdover from the past few years.
Cooley zone. At Providence he spent 11 seasons between 40 and 80 in KenPom except for 2 between 25 and 40. I expect him to be firmly in the zone this year. Bubble team.
I see what ya did there.... solid role players (Abraham).
There's our darling Big East. Someone needs to turn on that Eddie Money song.
