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Danny wolf 20 pts and 14 rebs against Xavier. Cant believe we didnt recruit him from the portal coming from Yale.
 
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Welcome to Bubble World, Xavier.

Hopkins was supposed to play, and then didn't. Not a good sign.

I'm not even sure what the Big East's best away from home win is right now. Seton Hall over VCU? Marquette over Georgia?

We're getting into calamity territory.
 
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So many close losses for Big East teams this week! And the blowouts SDSU over Creighton and Michigan over Xavier add more salt to the wounds.

Strangely, in the flip a coin games tight at the end (MD vs Nova, Creighton vs Texas A&M, Oklahoma vs Providence) I'm expecting the Big East team to lose. I love this conference and it's sad to see.
 

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Not that I'm inclined to tell people how or what to think but at the moment I believe that we have more than enough to be concerned about with our school that we shouldn't compound that with worrying about the remainder of the conference.
 
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Not that I'm inclined to tell people how or what to think but at the moment I believe that we have more than enough to be concerned about with our school that we shouldn't compound that with worrying about the remainder of the conference.
The conference's fortunes affect our own.

If we can't accrue quality wins in conference because the whole conference's rating is way down, that's a problem.
 
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Why, would the outcome of the last two games have been different if that had happened?

(Sorry for those who enjoy the BE for catching strays here)
More the merrier and great contributor!

Curious - your objective feelings about the sustainability of the BE keeping up with power conferences that have $$ flowing? Ie the SEC was not long ago a hoops afterthought and now looking like the best hoops conference in the country. Coincidence?
 

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Sadly, I don’t even feel great about us tonight. Or this morning. Whatever the hell time it is.
 

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More the merrier and great contributor!

Curious - your objective feelings about the sustainability of the BE keeping up with power conferences that have $$ flowing? Ie the SEC was not long ago a hoops afterthought and now looking like the best hoops conference in the country. Coincidence?

There is some meaningful possibility that college sports will end up with 40ish schools dominating all sports. You should assume going forward that we have all figured that out and unless you have some contrary opinion, you have nothing left to add on the topic.

Thank you for your interest in UConn basketball.
 
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More the merrier and great contributor!

Curious - your objective feelings about the sustainability of the BE keeping up with power conferences that have $$ flowing? Ie the SEC was not long ago a hoops afterthought and now looking like the best hoops conference in the country. Coincidence?

Yes, easy answer is that the P4 football conferences have tremendous resources (well, 2 of them do) but they sink most of that in to football. The BE mbb budgets are right in line with the other power basketball conferences. And despite the smaller school size of most schools in the conf, attendance, resources, NIL support, budgets, tv viewership, social media activity, etc all punch way above their size bc it's the main sport.

The caveat here for UConn is that they're trying to compete in high level FBS football without the P4 media deal to support it. Hence why I objectively think they should drop the sport.
 
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Yes, easy answer is that the P4 football conferences have tremendous resources (well, 2 of them do) but they sink most of that in to football. The BE mbb budgets are right in line with the other power basketball conferences. And despite the smaller school size of most schools in the conf, attendance, resources, NIL support, budgets, tv viewership, social media activity, etc all punch way above their size bc it's the main sport.

The caveat here for UConn is that they're trying to compete in high level FBS football without the P4 media deal to support it. Hence why I objectively think they should drop the sport.
Appreciate the perspective. Always interesting to hear from a fellow conference member.
 

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