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Have to add Miami in there, perhaps with Pitt, ND and WVU.
GTown should be under "if you were better"
I'd move Depaul and Butler to a new tier "Hey, we aren't in the AAC anymore, what are you doing here?"
UNC doesn't belong there.
 
Class needed for the obvious cheaters, who we don't like anyway: UNC, Arizona, Illinois, LSU, etc.

Could easily collapse PC and UMass for "teams that we have to hear about from long ago"
 
Not sure we have any natural rivals at this point, but the Big East is about to change

Most of the Big East & Cuse

In the post season, UK & Dook, you know they hate us for destroying their destiny on multiple occasions. Of course, UNC and Louisville appreciate us for the very same reason(s)
 
Put DePaul with X and Butler
Put Marquette with St. Johns and Seton Hall, and move that tier just after Duke and UK
 
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I would just list:

1. Syracuse, Villanova, Georgetown
2. PC, UMass, BC, Pitt
3. Louisville, Seton Hall, St Johns

There’s really no reason to list USF or any of those guys. I have trouble listing UMass and BC - that peaked in the 80s-early 2000s.
 
This is just so wrong. Georgetown was never really a rival. UMass was. BC really wasn't. PC is, always played us tough. Duke does belong. Pitt and St. Johns are too low.
 
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Line 2-4 - Most of the old BE were great rivals because the conference was just so stacked and there were so many great battles
Line 9 - I'd move BCU, DePaul and Marquette to the "If you were better..." line
Line 3 - Out of conference includes Duke because it was our nemesis until we finally broke through. Ohio State because of the NIT and the 1999 final 4. UCLA. Gonzaga. Michigan State perhaps.
Line "UMASS" - UMass had a nice little run for a while.

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I thought this was interesting:

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Note that the second tier rivals in the third row are Big East teams.

I barely think of West Virginia as a Big East team, but it seems like those games were meaningful to them. I wonder how many other former old Big East teams would list former conference teams as their biggest or most meaningful rivals? That was just such a great conference. I’ll never forgive ESPN for screwing that up.o

You can make arguments for and against the move out of the American to the new Big East conference, but I’m so glad we made the move. It’s definitely not the old Big East conference, but the game is kind of feel the same way. I think that will only improve over time. For a lot of our current conference, after Villanova, we are the team they want to beat the most. That makes for great basketball.

As for the new teams, Xavier fans are big enough jerks that I may come to dislike them in time. Probably Creighton fans as well.
 
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CL82 said:
I thought this was interesting:

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Note that the second tier rivals in the third row are Big East teams.

I barely think of West Virginia as a Big East team, but it seems like those games were meaningful to them. I wonder how many other former old Big East teams would list former conference teams as their biggest or most meaningful rivals? That was just such a great conference. I’ll never forgive ESPN for screwing that up.o

You can make arguments for and against the move out of the American to the new Big East conference, but I’m so glad we made the move. It’s definitely not the old Big East conference, but the game is kind of feel the same way. I think that will only improve over time. For a lot of our current conference, after Villanova, we are the team they want to beat the most. That makes for great basketball.

As for the new teams, Xavier fans are big enough jerks that I may come to dislike them in time. Probably Creighton fans as well.
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UCONN to the NBE is great for UCONN and the NBE. It will help the conference overall. Gtown and SJU need to get their ship together to become great programs again and that will help raise everyone's programs.
 
oshkosh said:
SMU kinda was a rival for a while there, but they really had our number.
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So did Kelvin Sampson. And even with the 0-3 Q1 record, I'd prefer to not meet them in March.

I think some are disregarding the 90s. From '86 through the first NC, G'town was the only team to have a winning record vs Calhoun, although Johnnies, Cuse and Pitt were close to .500.

Of course in that same time period, UConn was 24-3 vs BC, lol.
 
Pitt much higher certainly well above the BC tier.

Cincy is a BE rival and we've had great games. I'd put them above the BC tier too
 
we cant have 20 rivals...

for me it's easily #1 Nova followed by #2 PC. i'd love Gtown to work its way up to #2 eventually.

i believe Gtown passed us last year for most BET chips
 
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HuskyHawk said:
This is just so wrong. Georgetown was never really a rival. UMass was. BC really wasn't. PC is, always played us tough. Duke does belong. Pitt and St. Johns are too low.
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Depends on how you define rival. If you were using competitiveness for basketball, not a rivalry. If you were using competitiveness for football, also not a rivalry. If you are using hatred between the fanbases, oh yeah they are a rival.
 
Palatine said:
UMass was our primary rival pre-Calhoun. Before that it was URI.
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That's like saying the Visigoths were a formidable bunch.

With our nomadic history the argument for MBB is between Cuse and Nova as the only consistent rivals but as I said earlier. Our rival is whomever is challenging us for the crown. In the modern era that was, GT, Nova, Cuse, then Pitt, Louisville for a bit.

Anyone saying BC needs to be shown the door. We beat them 23 straight games, that's Washington Generals territory.

If you want to talk about the overall AD, Cuse and BC for the CR nonsense and always will be.
 
How are those “tiers”? I would expect some form of hierarchy. Those are just random categories.

I would have it like

True hatred
Respectful hatred
Dislike
Don’t respect
Hate from a distance
Respected peer

Or something
 
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Cuse is UConn’s one and only true rival.

Than, a relatively stable group of Gtown, PC and Nova

Below that a rotating cast of dweebs and clowns
 
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