If we had a team as good as Villanova's

[Scot-e]

My biggest nightmare. If Georgetown loses and they are losing right now... they will be no Northeast team left in the NCAA. Sad days coming for Northeast basketball. The northeast is getting shut out of big time NCAA just like college football. I wonder how much longer will Connecticut be able to hold, and Syracuse (under sanctions).... that's it

G Town? PE-TOOWEY!!!! I spit on G Town.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Don't worry, Biden will make it all better

 

[MattMang23]

The past!!! It was motherf***ing last year. Literally 12 months ago.

It literally hasn't even been 365 days yet...

 

[MattMang23]

Yeah but unfortunately. ESPN and the Power-5 are quick to make people forget that. Its crazy how on a yearly basis they re-write which conference is the most powerful, which one gets the most bids... things move very quickly in the CBB landscape. Everyone is quick to point out that conference is weak, this conference is strong, this conference is the best... etc.

Because those are kinetic measurements? Those things typically do change from year to year.

 

[upstater]

these sanctions on Syracuse only make it worst (as much as I hate them)

By the way, Maryland is still in the tournament. If Georgetown is a northeastern team, then so is Maryland. So they're not all out.

In fact, Maryland plays West Virginia, who I think of as Appalachian/Atlantic, but they also have northeastern cred.

I'll be rooting for WV.

 

[uconnell]

Pitt and Cuse made their move to protect football. Football is always going to be the first priority with them. The hybrid model was going to fail eventually. UConn recognized that, which is why they moved up in football. The BE was shortsighted not to add Penn State during the 80's. It was Penn St. going to the Big 10 that destabilized everything. With Penn St. in the fold, it would have been easy to start the football league. No league with PSU in it was ever going to be marginalized. You would have added the rest of the eastern football schools (WVU, Rutgers, etc), and maybe a school or two from bordering regions. None of the core schools would have ever left.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda..

 

[David 76]

Where are all the posters who insist we should join the NBE?

 

[ecasadoSBU]

By the way, Maryland is still in the tournament. If Georgetown is a northeastern team, then so is Maryland. So they're not all out.

In fact, Maryland plays West Virginia, who I think of as Appalachian/Atlantic, but they also have northeastern cred.

I'll be rooting for WV.

Geezz. totally forgot about Maryland! Even though they never had the traditional northeast feel as they were always part of the ACC. Nonetheless I will root for them. I have no one left closer to root for in this tourney. busted bracket

Screw WVirginia

 

[Leebo]

Where are all the posters who insist we should join the NBE?

Even in the old Big East, only UConn could be counted on.

 

[upstater]

Geezz. totally forgot about Maryland! Even though they never had the traditional northeast feel as they were always part of the ACC. Nonetheless I will root for them. I have no one left closer to root for in this tourney. busted bracket

Screw WVirginia

Maryland lost to West Virginia.

Go WV!

(UMd is a mortal enemy of UConn and should always be treated as such.)

 

[UConnWingman]

Maryland isn't worthy enough to be UConn's mortal enemy. That program sharted the bed when they let Gary Williams go, and they've never recovered.

 

[A10 fan]

Maryland isn't worthy enough to be UConn's mortal enemy. That program sharted the bed when they let Gary Williams go, and they've never recovered.

Gary Williams couldn't stomach the AAU system. He recruited well when you mainly had to deal with high school coaches, but the AAU system is such a slime pit, and at his age, he couldn't make the adjustment, which is why Maryland faded over his last few years.

 

[CallMeBruce]

Gary Williams couldn't stomach the AAU system. He recruited well when you mainly had to deal with high school coaches, but the AAU system is such a slime pit, and at his age, he couldn't make the adjustment, which is why Maryland faded over his last few years.

I always thought he was super whiny about it, but you do kind of have to respect a guy who has a line he won't cross, especially when it's as dirty as the AAU system.

 

[Mots010]

If we had a team as good as Villanova we wouldnt have won a national championship last year.