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Message: [QUOTE="Karmacop, post: 4933155, member: 159"] Here's Lunardi's take on ESPN: "Big East media shills have been even more obnoxious than their ACC counterparts, which is really saying something. UConn, [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/269/marquette-golden-eagles']Marquette[/URL] and [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/156/creighton-bluejays']Creighton[/URL] -- all seeded to be exactly where they are -- have nothing to do with [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2550/seton-hall-pirates']Seton Hall[/URL], [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2599/st-john-red-storm']St. John's[/URL] or [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2507/providence-friars']Providence[/URL] missing the tournament. The reality is, thanks to the unprecedented volume of bid stealers at the end of Champ Week, we had what amounted to a 31-team at-large pool (instead of 36 or, more accurately, the 34 or 35 spots we'd have with an average number of conference tourney upsets). The Big East would have gotten at least two and maybe three of the slots that vanished. There's no conspiracy here, just bad math and bad luck. Follow the lead of your classy commissioner and get over it. Sometimes things don't work out. (Just ask [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2309/kent-state-golden-flashes']Kent State[/URL].)" [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39807357/joe-lunardi-sweet-16-mens-tournament-thoughts-awful-taste-kentucky-wildcats[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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