has there been any talk of scheduling OOC games with the Big East?

[huskyharry]

Realistically though why would they have allowed us? There was a remote chance that a school without any chance of an at large bid could've won and gone dancing.

Perhaps because we were part of the Big East Conference, the ban from the NCAA was absolutely unjust (double jeopardy is proscribed in our legal system but only in the mind of the corrupt NCAA was it okay to use to screw over UConn and Coach Calhoun), and our Big East colleagues would want to soften the injustice or our situation unsteady of piling on to an extremely unjust situation?

 

[BoatShow]

Realistically though why would they have allowed us? There was a remote chance that a school without any chance of an at large bid could've won and gone dancing.

I mean, my feeling at the time (and I still feel this way) is that we were a part of the league and should have had equal shot at proving we could win the conference tournament. As for the whole at large bid thing...if you don't want it to be an issue make someone beat us. Was it better for the league that Louisville with both feet out the door won? It's not as though some random ass RU/DePaul/Seton Hall team was gonna through and lose to us in the title taking another bid away from the league. By the time a team is in the BET title game they usually have NCAA spot pretty much sealed up.

 

[DogMania]

Considering the fact that the BE schools banned us from their final real tourney, when they previously allowed Syracuse to play while under NCAA suspension, makes me want to have nothing to do with that lot.
I know it benefits us to play G'town, Nova, St. Johns, or Syracuse at the garden, the rest of them can go to hell IMHO.

I feel the same way. They didn't stand up for us and could have by allowing us to play in the BET. They don't deserve to have the privilege to play us.