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I want revenge against Marquette as much as anyone but it’s also important to remember how good their defense has been of late. Top 10 nationally since 2/1. Like Hall, lots of deflections and disruption, which might not be the most ideal matchup for us
 
freescooter said:
St John’s plays 11 games at Madison Square Garden. Seems like a home court to me. Doesn’t matter when they aren’t good. When they are, though it is a little unfair, no?
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Unlike the BE women’s tournament at Mohegan Sun?
 
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freescooter said:
So kinda like the NESCAC. Top seed hosts.

I actually think the NBE Tournament is a waste of time and energy. Who cares if you win unless you are Seton Hall with zero chance at the real tournament…I get it is a big deal for most of the league. And for mid-majors. They are never winning National Championships. But for us it’s nice but unessential. Who would you rather be UConn 2023 or Marquette? It’s the basketball equivalent of the NBA in season tournament. The league had to mandate that they put up a banner or a plaque. And playing 3 straight days is not normal in the season so it can impact outcomes.
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Huh? Got on the train and get to Legends why don’t ya. Weird post.
 
Viet Vet said:
Unlike the BE women’s tournament at Mohegan Sun?
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Very different situation. Just 2 things that jump out:

A. I don’t think the Women played most of their home schedule at Mohegan Sun. St John’s played 11 at MSG.
B. If they play it anyplace but close to UConn they’ll play in front of a crowd of hundreds. Creighton women’s basketball isn’t exactly a thing.
 
freescooter said:
So kinda like the NESCAC. Top seed hosts.

I actually think the NBE Tournament is a waste of time and energy. Who cares if you win unless you are Seton Hall with zero chance at the real tournament…I get it is a big deal for most of the league. And for mid-majors. They are never winning National Championships. But for us it’s nice but unessential. Who would you rather be UConn 2023 or Marquette? It’s the basketball equivalent of the NBA in season tournament. The league had to mandate that they put up a banner or a plaque. And playing 3 straight days is not normal in the season so it can impact outcomes.
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I swear this dude breathes to hate on the Big East. LOL on the nBE when no one refers to it as such

The Big East Tournament generates excitement and solid revenue for the league. It's the marquee conference tournament with decades of memorable history and you think its a waste of time and energy? LOL

It's probably the only conference tournament that doesn't feel like a waste of time/energy
 
freescooter said:
So kinda like the NESCAC. Top seed hosts.

I actually think the NBE Tournament is a waste of time and energy. Who cares if you win unless you are Seton Hall with zero chance at the real tournament…I get it is a big deal for most of the league. And for mid-majors. They are never winning National Championships. But for us it’s nice but unessential. Who would you rather be UConn 2023 or Marquette? It’s the basketball equivalent of the NBA in season tournament. The league had to mandate that they put up a banner or a plaque. And playing 3 straight days is not normal in the season so it can impact outcomes.
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I wanna party with you Francis!



 
ecasadoSBU said:
I swear this dude breathes to hate on the Big East. LOL on the nBE when no one refers to it as such

The Big East Tournament generates excitement and solid revenue for the league. It's the marquee conference tournament with decades of memorable history and you think its a waste of time and energy? LOL

It's probably the only conference tournament that doesn't feel like a waste of time/energy
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As a lifelong UConn fan who went to Georgetown, I'm ready for the Hoyas to inexplicably win this tournament followed by Cooley getting a billion dollar 10-year extension followed by Georgetown losing in the first round of the real tournament by 40
 
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ecasadoSBU said:
I swear this dude breathes to hate on the Big East. LOL on the nBE when no one refers to it as such

The Big East Tournament generates excitement and solid revenue for the league. It's the marquee conference tournament with decades of memorable history and you think its a waste of time and energy? LOL

It's probably the only conference tournament that doesn't feel like a waste of time/energy
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I generally agree with you about the current BET, but I don’t share your excitement about its history since 1996. You try to insinuate Freescooter is a chump for referring to the current BE as NBE. I think most realize he was differentiating between the old and the new. The old was so much better than the new. With the old I would watch every single game from start to finish. The Big East was king back then. It was a great tune up and springboard to the big dance for UConn or any other BE school I would back. Now, I will watch our game Thursday. However, if we don’t play Thursday or Friday, then I will have no further interest in the BET. I am excited about our participation in the tournament, but it just isn’t for me what it once was.
 
ecasadoSBU said:
I swear this dude breathes to hate on the Big East. LOL on the nBE when no one refers to it as such

The Big East Tournament generates excitement and solid revenue for the league. It's the marquee conference tournament with decades of memorable history and you think its a waste of time and energy? LOL

It's probably the only conference tournament that doesn't feel like a waste of time/energy
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Except for the mid-majors I think they are all a waste. For UConn it is mostly negative. Lose and it hurts our ranking. Win and it doesn’t help. That’s true of any serious contender. For Power teams they are mostly in anyway. Even mid-majors get hurt sometimes. There is a high possibility that Miami of Ohio is out if they lose early in the MAC. Heck even if they lose late. French these 1- bid leagues don’t end up with their best team going.

I have said for years, extend the regular season a week. Choose the autobid based on the regular season. Crappy teams with bad records don’t belong in the national championship tournament just because they got hot for a couple of days in an event that doesn’t play be the same rules that the rest of the season is played by.
 
RuffRuff said:
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Not to sound overly salty.

I hate hate hate that coach of the year award if really just the "coach's who team exceeded expectations" award.

It's in the same light as the NFL MVP award, which is really just which QB had the most eye popping stats.
 
Mets1432 said:
Not to sound overly salty.

I hate hate hate that coach of the year award if really just the "coach's who team exceeded expectations" award.

It's in the same light as the NFL MVP award, which is really just which QB had the most eye popping stats.
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Maybe they're doing it so he doesn't leave or because they want SHU donors to pony up. This one doesn't smell right. Awarding a coach who went .500 is a bit of a kick against the meaning of the award.
 
RuffRuff said:
Maybe they're doing it so he doesn't leave or because they want SHU donors to pony up. This one doesn't smell right. Awarding a coach who went .500 is a bit of a kick against the meaning of the award.
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Would you have given it to Willard?
 
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ecasadoSBU said:
I swear this dude breathes to hate on the Big East. LOL on the nBE when no one refers to it as such

The Big East Tournament generates excitement and solid revenue for the league. It's the marquee conference tournament with decades of memorable history and you think its a waste of time and energy? LOL

It's probably the only conference tournament that doesn't feel like a waste of time/energy
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You know about the only thing accurate about this is that it generates revenue for the league. The “ marquee conference tournament” wouldn’t finish behind the SEC, Big 10 , Big 12, ACC and Mountain West in terms of audience. It has even finished behind the A10 a few times. Full disclosure we beat the Mountsin West last year. Its final won’t get bounced out of the prime time broadcast slot. The original Big East title game was the lead in to the selection show. Then it moved to Saturday Prime time. Now it’s Saturday at dinner time. Hardly a marquee time slot. But at least you can watch it and still have time to go out after.
Uh oh. This year we are up against the B12 and the Mountain West. We’ll see if the NBE is indeed the “marquee conference”

My view is it’s a meh league and I dislike these fake made for tv “tournaments” in general and the NBE’s in particular. I don’t get the hype. It has been years since the games have been memorable, the outcome isn’t particularly important, and if I were coaching I would not love risking star players in a 3 or 4 games in a row format when the real tournament is less than a week away. It’s all the value of the NBA’s in season tournament without the extra money for the players.

BTW, have you ever been to another power conference tournament?
 
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bendm said:
The ideal path IMO instead of PC > Hall (rockfight) we get Marquette (revenge game) > Nova
I’d like to beat SJU in the final for another good Q1 win
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I'd rather play Marquette or Xavier than PC. PC can legitimately beat St. Johns.
 
Mets1432 said:
Not to sound overly salty.

I hate hate hate that coach of the year award if really just the "coach's who team exceeded expectations" award.

It's in the same light as the NFL MVP award, which is really just which QB had the most eye popping stats.
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The league is really bad this year, this is more of a process of elimination vote. Willard is the only other possible choice as every single other coach has underperformed in some way.
 
RuffRuff said:
Yes - 15-5 first year off the Neptune disaster, to me a more impressive achievement, $$ or not. Swept the Hall. Only losses to UConn/StJ & Creighton once. Darned good year.
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I agree with you. I think Willard deserved it more.
 
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