Big East OOC thread '25/'26

[uconnbill]

Connecticut just has better basketball

 

[storrsroars]

The word "powerful" has not been associated with Pitt in almost 20 years. Clickbait headline.

 

[Travelman6]

Their last really good year was 2011, but they did have a somewhat decent year in 2023 that ended in a beat down at the hands of Xavier and in 2016 they did drop a ton of points, I think it was 43....(10 seed)

 

[David54]

So many of the old big east schools have just fallen off a cliff.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

There's potential for 4 Connecticut schools to dance. Of course, it will come down to conference tournaments for Yale, CCSU and QU

 

[CTBasketball]

ACC! ACC!

 

[Travelman6]

So many of the old big east schools have just fallen off a cliff.

Lville was rock bottom abhorrent a few years ago but I think they are on their way up, not that they could have fallen any further.

 

[willie99]

I don't think anyone associated with the ACC can be happy about their choices. And they thought they were going to buy their way to basketball superiority, LMFAO

They know they made at least one yuuuuuuge blunder

As far as hoops goes (and every sport except maybe football), I'm happy where we are

 

[ctbro1999]

So many of the old big east schools have just fallen off a cliff.

BC: garbage pretty much since they left
Pitt: garbage (not quite the steaming pile BC is though)
Cuse: garbage post Boeheim (but wasn't very good last few years of Boeheim either)
ND: 1 NCAA tourney berth last 9 years, 3 straight losing seasons
VT: 3 NCAA berths past 9 years (did make the last 2 though)
Rutgers: they had Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper for 1 (bad) year? Also, seem to randomly own Purdue, but otherwise not great.
Miami: may be the best of the bunch, though they cratered last season.

 

[alexd]

BC: garbage pretty much since they left
Pitt: garbage (not quite the steaming pile BC is though)
Cuse: garbage post Boeheim (but wasn't very good last few years of Boeheim either)
ND: 1 NCAA tourney berth last 9 years, 3 straight losing seasons
VT: 3 NCAA berths past 9 years (did make the last 2 though)
Rutgers: they had Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper for 1 (bad) year? Also, seem to randomly own Purdue, but otherwise not great.
Miami: may be the best of the bunch, though they cratered last season.

The Cuse fans will just keep saying, "yeah, but the paychecks". 🙃

 

[John]

BC: garbage pretty much since they left
Pitt: garbage (not quite the steaming pile BC is though)
Cuse: garbage post Boeheim (but wasn't very good last few years of Boeheim either)
ND: 1 NCAA tourney berth last 9 years, 3 straight losing seasons
VT: 3 NCAA berths past 9 years (did make the last 2 though)
Rutgers: they had Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper for 1 (bad) year? Also, seem to randomly own Purdue, but otherwise not great.
Miami: may be the best of the bunch, though they cratered last season.

WVU?
Louisville?
Cincinnati?
USF?

 

[ctbro1999]

WVU?
Louisville?
Cincinnati?
USF?

Put WV similar to Miami, Louisville hit rock bottom before finally recovering lately. Cincy a perennial bubble team, and USF irrelevant.

 

[RuffRuff]

Creighton = not good

 

[aceboon]

Seton Hall is improved from last year, don't know what that means in terms of season record but this is a much better unit

 

[aceboon]

SH up by 2 @ the half over NC State, if they could pull this off the week would already be a success for them

 

[aceboon]

crazy that Greer was going to redshirt, he's making an impact here vs Baylor

 

[SoFla Steve]

Creighton hanging with Baylor. Bears lead 53-52 with 13 mins to go.

 

[superjohn]

crazy that Greer was going to redshirt, he's making an impact here vs Baylor

It's bizarre. He was around the 50th best recruit in the country, played at Montverde, and he's their best athlete.

 

[aceboon]

It's bizarre. He was around the 50th best recruit in the country, played at Montverde, and he's their best athlete.

even with McAndrew healthy McDermott should have been able to find minutes for him

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Holloway is my second favorite Big East coach, but their offense hurts my eyes. I don’t think there is much Holloway can do about it given their talent deficit, but it is just grinding.

I love their defense. Great, hard nosed man-to-man without fouling.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Creighton player got hurt because camera guy on baseline didn’t get out of the way. What a jerk.

 

[RuffRuff]

Hall putting a hurting on ranked NCSt - consider me surprised. I may have prematurely doubted some of these back end teams like SHU & Butler.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Just turned the Hall on they look good!

 

[superjohn]

Seton Hall is currently blowing out NC State.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Creighton hanging with Baylor. Bears lead 53-52 with 13 mins to go.

Creighton is ok. Bubble caliber team.