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Plebe said:
I'm sorry, but this is a completely arbitrary threshold that you've just made up out of thin air. I'm rooting for the BE teams to do well, but let's not make it more than it is.

The MAC put 2 teams in the Sweet 16 a few years ago. Did that cause the nation's top recruits to start flocking to all the MAC schools?
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Of course it’s arbitrary. Just seems to me that getting to the Sweet 16 would generate interest by certain recruits. If you feel that it doesn’t matter and has no impact, that OK too.
 
I'm invoking the "historical anomaly" clause to have the DePaul game officially erased from the historical record. Therefore I consider the Big East to be 3-0 thus far :)

Nova fell behind BYU early but they didn't panic, stayed true to their identity and their game plan, and came out with a huge win.

To all the haterz who said the Big East should be a 1-bid conference.

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'Way to go Maddy S.!!!! 25 points... what a poised team!
The Big East is proud of you! Next up ?? Michigan!!
A shout out for Marquette against Purue on Monday ( WNIT ).
 
Zarathustra said:
'Way to go Maddy S.!!!! 25 points... what a poised team!
The Big East is proud of you! Next up ?? Michigan!!
A shout out for Marquette against Purue on Monday ( WNIT ).
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19 in second half when it counted.
 
Dooooooomed said:
Nice win for Nova too!
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BYU was sort of a chimera - their coach put out all that 'disrespect' statement saying his team was just as good as Stanford, SC, and any other top ten team. They went out and proved it ... they lost to an unranked team just like Uconn, SC, and most of the rest of the top 10.

They played 6 Power five teams and won 5 of the games but none of the games they won were against teams that ended the year ranked.
 
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UcMiami said:
BYU was sort of a chimera - their coach put out all that 'disrespect' statement saying his team was just as good as Stanford, SC, and any other top ten team. They went out and proved it ... they lost to an unranked team just like Uconn, SC, and most of the rest of the top 10.

They played 6 Power five teams and won 5 of the games but none of the games they won were against teams that ended the year ranked.
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Yeah, a curious season. They beat Florida State and West Virginia in November when both were ranked, but both turned out to be massive underachievers. Also beat Arizona State and dominated Washington State and Utah, and only lost to Oklahoma (in Norman) in overtime. Turns out that Utah, with its postseason surge, was their best win.
 
Successful tourney runs certainly give the teams involved a bump in recruiting, but the bigger picture is getting the conference respect that we should be looked at like a Power 5. If we can get multiple teams to advance then next year maybe it's a fifth or sixth team that gets in.
 
LoboDays said:
Mileage means getting noticed by the type of quality recruits who can raise the level of the team and the conference. A Sweet 16 appearance does that.
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I completely agree that Big East teams doing well in the NCAA tournament will help the conference in attracting better players! That is essentially what the poster is saying. Not sure why that would be questioned? Perhaps I missed something?
 
UcMiami said:
BYU was sort of a chimera - their coach put out all that 'disrespect' statement saying his team was just as good as Stanford, SC, and any other top ten team. They went out and proved it ... they lost to an unranked team just like Uconn, SC, and most of the rest of the top 10.

They played 6 Power five teams and won 5 of the games but none of the games they won were against teams that ended the year ranked.
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That brings up something I often wonder about. When a team beats a ranked team early in the season (maybe not the very first game) and then that team proceeds to underperform and then drops in the rankings, that win is often dismissed. I’m not sure why? After all, they had to have earned that ranking by their play up to that point. So, if my team beats the number 8 ranked team for example, then that team underperforms and ends up number 24, it still doesn’t change the fact that we beat the 8th ranked team. I’m just curious how others feel about that whole situation, I guess?
 
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huskeynut said:
Creighton wins over Iowa. Big big win.

I may be in the minority, but I think Iowa was overseeded.
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Half of the P5 teams were overseeded. Wouldn't it be nice if the Big East and FGCU met in the Final Four. That would maybe shut the pundits up a bit on all those P5 teams.
 
Cuango said:
That brings up something I often wonder about. When a team beats a ranked team early in the season (maybe not the very first game) and then that team proceeds to underperform and then drops in the rankings, that win is often dismissed. I’m not sure why? After all, they had to have earned that ranking by their play up to that point. So, if my team beats the number 8 ranked team for example, then that team underperforms and ends up number 24, it still doesn’t change the fact that we beat the 8th ranked team. I’m just curious how others feel about that whole situation, I guess?
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The rankings are usually guess work during the OOC and they are often very wrong because a lot of teams play really crap schedules. The reverse can also be true Uconn lost to an unranked Georgia Tech team that was then ranked in the teens until a late swoon dropped them from the rankings again - same happened with Oregon rankings. Once teams start playing conference opponents where comparative strength within the conference can really be assessed, the rankings start making more sense.

A win against a top five team is likely to hold up through the year because those teams have so much talent to start with, but the lower ranked teams are more of a crap shoot.
 
MSGRET said:
Half of the P5 teams were overseeded. Wouldn't it be nice if the Big East and FGCU met in the Final Four. That would maybe shut the pundits up a bit on all those P5 teams.
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And yet, if this happens, we'll hear all sorts of excuses for the perceived "better" teams ... ad nauseam
 
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LoboDays said:
Of course it’s arbitrary. Just seems to me that getting to the Sweet 16 would generate interest by certain recruits. If you feel that it doesn’t matter and has no impact, that OK too.
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I think sometimes a recruit likes to see a program gaining traction and wants to be a part of the process.
JMHO
 
Stymie said:
I think sometimes a recruit likes to see a program gaining traction and wants to be a part of the process.
JMHO
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Valid point. There are several reason: program legacy, championships won, coaching staff, campus life.. They all factor in.
 
Can’t understand why Norte Dame finished the season badly. They should be at least a top 10 team.
 
MSGRET said:
Just loved the shocked faces of the Iowa fans after Jensen made the 3 point jumper with just 13 seconds left.
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Almost as funny as the Baylor fans all decked out in gold lame looking on in shock as Baylor went down!!

On edit, i found this on the general board - this is what i was referencing LOL!! It looked a little like they thought Kim Mulkey was still the coach!!

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