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

[CL82]

82, the year before last, PC beat Nova, then they lost to them in OT in the Big East Championship then Nova rolled to the NC, obliterating everyone. I know you don't want to accept this but this is a very competitive league that UConn just joined, you eventually are going to have to pitch your old biases.

Eventually...

Happy to be playing you again. We needed a team to hate,

I'm not sure I can hate PC, but I am willing to give it a try.

 

[The Viking]

keep that crap on the non-key tweets page!

 

[The Viking]

I'm going to assume that gentleman was standing on a platform that gave way causing a free-fall to the dungeon.

 

[superjohn]

Stainmaster would like me to pass along how creepy he finds your obsession with him.

I miss his musk.

 

[Adios]

You got it backwards. Butch kept them eligible.

Actually, they sat in the front row and took notes. Hard to believe, I know.

They were treating UConn as if it is a place to learn. Athletes can have scholarly pursuits, believe it or not.

 

[goskis2018]

Twitter can be an interesting read...

Please noone be dumb enough to believe this

 

[WrenchFan69]

Officially back boys

 

[VanillaNova]

 

[Waquoit]

Oh dear god.

Are we firing up the CR board again? I'm in!

 

[TRest]

Are we firing up the CR board again? I'm in!

The Dream will never die as long as we hold it like a bird in our hands.

 

[AllAbout5]

Are we firing up the CR board again? I'm in!

I’m new. What’s the CR board

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

I’m new. What’s the CR board

Fantasyland

 

[AllAbout5]

Fantasyland

explain more

 

[FriarJ]

I'm not sure I can hate PC, but I am willing to give it a try.

Oh you are going to hate us and you are going to like it.

 

[Waquoit]

I’m new. What’s the CR board

We used to have a Conference Realignment Board. Some considered it the best CR Board on the internet. Tuxedo Yoda was a frequent read.

 

[AllAbout5]

We used to have a Conference Realignment Board. Some considered it the best CR Board on the internet.

I think I saw it earlier. Why was it the best?

 

[whaler11]

We used to have a Conference Realignment Board. Some considered it the best CR Board on the internet. Tuxedo Yoda was a frequent read.

we still do and its still hilarious at times.

 

[TRest]

I think I saw it earlier. Why was it the best?

We didn't have any make-believe insiders running fantasy scenarios for their own amusement. Just news, sports, and weather.

 

[Waquoit]

I think I saw it earlier. Why was it the best?

Because one guy from another school said so once. I consider that "some".

 

[Waquoit]

we still do and its still hilarious at times.

I must have put it on Ignore by mistake as I can't see it.

 

[whaler11]

I must have put it on Ignore by mistake as I can't see it.

i wouldnt call that a mistake

 

[Waquoit]

i wouldnt call that a mistake

I found it. In fact it wasn't a mistake, I vaguely remembering putting it on ignore after a another crappy FB game.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

I’m new. What’s the CR board

Consumer Reports

 

[ctchamps]

Happy to be playing you again. We needed a team to hate, and you will be number one on the list. You guys have improved greatly since we left, and I have no doubt you will continue to be a good team going forward.

This will hurt your recruiting though. We beat you for Akok last year when Hurley was just starting out in a crappy conference. Now we have the same league to sell, but a better program.

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

 

[AllAbout5]

http://adimeback.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Big-East-Agreement-06.26.19.pdf

 

[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.