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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 3433917, member: 1609"] We’re are not known as being overly physical but we shot almost . 700from the two against Nova. That’s having your way.They were really soft. We were awful from the three and they weren’t , although their guards used the straight arm to get separation without any ramifications. Philly rules were in place. We haven’t come close to that dominating performance inside against anyone In our conference. They can shoot the three and are well coached but I suspect very overrated. I also think SH, Ceighton , Butler, and Marquette are better teams i really haven’t seen a team this year without some weaknesses so the tournament should be wide open. Maybe the Big East is better but the margin is nowhere near as large as some on the board speculate. Since the current AAC is in reality the Old Big East they certainly can claim conference history. That’s teams come and go doesn’t change anything . UConn by leaving the AAC is really leaving the league it co- founded in 1978-79 . The current Big East was incorporated in 2013-14 hence NBE is not a misnomer because it’s an entirely new conference. That some of the teams belonged to the original league is irrelevant. They chose freely to leave and to form a new league which is their right. They essentially paid for the name and tourney by waiving any claim to the sizable assets accrued by the Big East. The name Big East was meaningless to Aresco as he was pursuing a coast to coast conference. Even the AAC organizational headquarters stayed in its original home Of Providence until recently . So there is clearly an old Big East and and a New Big East corporately. Individual teams obviously bring their history along with them. All this has zero bearing on where our basketball is better served but it bothers me some when writers say we’re going back to a league we never belonged to. [/QUOTE]

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