Report: UConn Going To Big East For 2020-2021 Season

[browndog319]

For the geniuses thinking we’re losing something huge here...
How many times have you been flipping through the channels and found the 6 OT game vs. Syracuse on ESPN classics?
How many times have you stopped to watch?
What AAC games have been on?
Exactly...

 

[browndog319]

The highest finishes of The New New Big East

National Championships
UConn- 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014 (4)
Villanova- 1985, 2016, 2018 (3)
Georgetown- 1984 (1)
Marquette- 1977 (1)

National Runner Ups
Butler- 2010, 2011 (2)
Seton Hall- 1989 (1)
St. John's- 1952 (1)

Final Four
Providence- 1973, 1987 (2)
DePaul- 1979 (1)

Elite 8
Xavier- 2004, 2008, 2017 (3)
Creighton- 1941 (1)

UConn and Villanova are 2 of the top 10 programs in the last 20 years and they will now be in the same conference. If Hurley can get us back (he really doesn't have an excuse now) and Wright stays put, that could be a marquee basketball game of the year in the sport. Imagine if they are both ranked and playing for the BET at MSG on Fox on a Saturday night? We already know Hurley and Cooley have history so that will also be a big rivalry.

Seton Hall and Providence seem to be fighting for NCAA spots under Willard and Cooley regularly. DePaul seems pretty comfortable at the bottom with Dave L.

My 2 big questions will be can Xavier, Butler, and Marquette continue to make the right hires as they usually lose their well established coaches to other leagues. And can Georgetown and St. John's show any signs of life under Ewing and Anderson.

Wasn’t Marquette in the Final Four in 2003?

 

[Waquoit]

Wasn’t Marquette in the Final Four in 2003?

Marquette's best finish was the NC in 1977.

 

[browndog319]

Marquette's best finish was the NC in 1977.

It’s so embarrassing to be that confident when I can just Google what I knew off the top of my head to prove you wrong...

2003 Final Four Run Changed History For Marquette, Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade's "One Last Dance" returned to Milwaukee where he thanked Marquette University for getting his career started.

www.forbes.com

I knew it because I got married in 2003. I had to do pre Cana and special sessions with a Jesuit priest because I wasn’t catholic. He went to Marquette. On the Friday night of the FF, he got a phone call and it was his buddies asking him to meet at the bar the next night to watch the FF.

Duh. That’s how I remembered that.

 

[superjohn]

It’s so embarrassing to be that confident when I can just Google what I knew off the top of my head to prove you wrong...

2003 Final Four Run Changed History For Marquette, Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade's "One Last Dance" returned to Milwaukee where he thanked Marquette University for getting his career started.

www.forbes.com

I knew it because I got married in 2003. I had to do pre Cana and special sessions with a Jesuit priest because I wasn’t catholic. He went to Marquette. On the Friday night of the FF, he got a phone call and it was his buddies asking him to meet at the bar the next night to watch the FF.

Duh. That’s how I remembered that.

You're not doing well here.

 

[tzznandrew]

You're not doing well here.

This is a top 10 self own. It's amazing.

 

[Waquoit]

It’s so embarrassing to be that confident when I can just Google what I knew off the top of my head to prove you wrong...

I think you missed the point of chart you referenced. It listed only the best finish of every team, not every year of note. I don't care how you remembered that 2003 Final Four run, it didn't have a better finish than in 1977 when they actually won the whole thing.

 

[navery12]

It’s so embarrassing to be that confident when I can just Google what I knew off the top of my head to prove you wrong...

2003 Final Four Run Changed History For Marquette, Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade's "One Last Dance" returned to Milwaukee where he thanked Marquette University for getting his career started.

www.forbes.com

I knew it because I got married in 2003. I had to do pre Cana and special sessions with a Jesuit priest because I wasn’t catholic. He went to Marquette. On the Friday night of the FF, he got a phone call and it was his buddies asking him to meet at the bar the next night to watch the FF.

Duh. That’s how I remembered that.

This is a tremendous self own. Congrats

 

[browndog319]

You're not doing well here.

No, you aren’t. Let’s try this...
Syracuse won...
Beat the Jayhawks. Who were the other two teams?

2003 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[browndog319]

This is a tremendous self own. Congrats

How is it a self-own? They were in the FF in 2003... like I said.

 

[browndog319]

I think you missed the point of chart you referenced. It listed only the best finish of every team, not every year of note. I don't care how you remembered that 2003 Final Four run, it didn't have a better finish than in 1977 when they actually won the whole thing.

Okay, but should count for something.
They actually do.

 

[browndog319]

I think you missed the point of chart you referenced. It listed only the best finish of every team, not every year of note. I don't care how you remembered that 2003 Final Four run, it didn't have a better finish than in 1977 when they actually won the whole thing.

Okay, so it’s top finished. I did miss that. I think you should also count all FF appearances because that’s ridiculously hard. It shows a lot more depth that highest finishes. Then you might as well get into Pitt flaming out in the second round...

 

[browndog319]

It also should only be when they were in the Big East... who cares when they weren’t?

 

[VanillaNova]

I'm less interested in hurting Providence, St. John's and Seton Hall than hurting Pitt, BC and Syracuse.

Why? Two door mats and a third program on its long, slow sunset.

 

[NatiHuskiFan]

This. Ohio State will never ever allow it. There is bad blood between the schools that goes back to the 60's.

Yeah and it’s all from basketball because that’s the sport UC can still beat them in at any given time. I still wish for the day UC beats Ohio state in football. This upcoming season seems like as good a chance as any. They hardly ever agree to play UC, much less in Cincinnati because they nearly lost to us at Paul Brown Stadium the year they won the national Championship under tressel

 

[UofCT]

Okay, but should count for something.
They actually do.

2009 UConn isn't on that list why would 2003 Marquette?

 

[browndog319]

2009 UConn isn't on that list why would 2003 Marquette?

I know. Or Villanova.
I was going back over it and to only count best results for any team is a miss. It’s hard to get to a FF. It’s hard to get a NC.
Even getting to the Elite 8 is hard to do, especially year in and year out.
It should be total tournament success. That was my point.
And 1977 was pre-Big East. That makes it even tougher to support that being in the list for Marquette.

 

[auror]

I know. Or Villanova.
I was going back over it and to only count best results for any team is a miss. It’s hard to get to a FF. It’s hard to get a NC.
Even getting to the Elite 8 is hard to do, especially year in and year out.
It should be total tournament success. That was my point.
And 1977 was pre-Big East. That makes it even tougher to support that being in the list for Marquette.

Please make your own chart.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

I’m really hoping it’s not true though. The AAC was just starting to grow on me...

You should probably get that checked out.

 

[browndog319]

Please make your own chart.

Maybe I will... stay tuned. It’s not raining for once this weekend so I want to do outside things too.

 

[Pudge]

Syracuse is still drawing 30,000 to some games. Boeheim leaves & they don't get it right, there is a long drop to 10,000 for a UNC or someone come in to kill them. We can feel the Pride of past; in Syracuse, the region would deflate.

 

[zls44]

Kansas led by 29 at the half. Marquette was embarrassing.

 

[Guapo]

Not that I believe anything about it or want it but...



The Big East basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden will have that certain “UConn” buzz to it once again when busloads of fans from Connecticut are enjoying March Madness at The World’s Most Famous Arena. Digital Sports Desk has learned, the University of Connecticut Huskies are making plans to return to the Big East Conference for basketball, according to multiple sources who could not comment publicly.

Before the basketball decision can be announced, the UConn athletics office must work on future details related to their football program, currently members of the American Athletic Conference where the Huskies went 0-8 (1-11, overall) last season. Other collegiate sports plans and schedules are also being juggled with plans for the change to take place before the 2020-21 basketball season.

What a week it’s been.

 

[shizzle787]

We were never ever getting the P5 invite. The ACC and Big 10 have made that incredibly clear by now. If there is another round on expansion in a few years, Houston, UCF, and Cincy would be the first to go. This was 100% the correct move. Our football program is beyond dead, the least they could do was save basketball

Impressive.

 

[aburks41]

Impressive.

Thank you. I also predict that UConn will win the national championship this season