The one thing that really makes me sick is that if we beat Nova we may hand deliver the Big East regular season title to PC (Nova would no longer control their own destiny)…
- The BE has been around since 1979… PC is the only original member to never have won a BE regular season title (BC had 5 for reference and they left long ago, SJU and SHU both have 3 I believe and plenty of non-original teams have won titles)… for them to win a BE regular season title on winning percentage because they had fortuitous COVID cancellations would suck… and we would help hand deliver it…
- I think we win out besides Nova anyway and thus if Nova beats us and PC it actually makes our road in the BET easier (I know, people will hate this take, people will say overthinking it, anything can happen so win now, yadda yadda, etc.) as we’d be in the bottom of the bracket along with PC as the 2 seed… semis could be UConn - PC in the night game… I think we win and I think someone could knock off Nova before the finals in the top part of the bracket (like Marquette who beat them twice already)... We aren’t winning the reg season title but would really love the tourney title and a loss Tuesday might actually set things up favorably…
- I don’t think the Nova game is consequential frankly for NCAA tourney seeding… frankly I would rather a 6 seed than a 4 or 5 if looking to make a deep run… and perhaps we could still get a 3 (unlikely tho) with a loss to Nova Tuesday if we win out rest of reg season and then beat say Xavier, PC and Nova in the BET on the way to title?
I guess what I really hate about this game is this: Winning their first ever BE reg season title means so much more to PC fans than a win over Nova means to us… they’re the worst program in the history of the BE by objective measures and I want it to stay that way - their fans, whom I despise more than any in sports, don’t deserve a title - I don’t want to give them their best memory in a quarter century…
yea I want to finish 3rd in the conference at this point but let’s win the BET title and make a deep run… if we play like last 10 mins of first half of Xavier we can beat anyone… it’s all about peaking in a couple weeks and if we do big things could lie ahead…
Again, I know people will hate this take but I just hate PC that much