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Message: [QUOTE="jontaejones, post: 3193954, member: 9940"] Here are my thoughts as someone who is intimately familiar with the NBE and pretty familiar with college basketball as a whole... The Big East clearly gets lower recruits than the other P5 conferences in general. However, college basketball is not what it was. If you haven't noticed, kids who are fresh and sophs are leaving for the NBA (or more accurately the G-league) without even being on any draft board in droves. Six players were picked from the Pac-12 in last weeks draft and the Pac-12 was an abomination last year. Big East schools as a generality recruit in the 40-150 sweet spot (occasionally higher) and generally look for kids to stay 4 years. Big East also is a guard's league. Very rarely does the league get or develop lottery quality big men, we play on the perimeter, which obviously works in every level of basketball in 2019. So, that is what I believe Hurley will sell. If UConn wanted to be one and done, or a one hit wonder and recruit the James Wisemans of the world and have the #1 recruiting class, then they probably don't come to the Big East. UConn is recruiting at a high enough level ranking wise NOW to win the national championship. Look at the Texas Tech roster for . It's about getting the right kids in and getting the right culture in place ... and the Big East is better for that. [/QUOTE]