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Message: [QUOTE="shizzle787, post: 4251217, member: 6581"] The only thing early exits suggest is that they got bad matchups or hadn't been playing well yet. Marquette (bad form) and Seton Hall (coaching rumored to leave) does not suggest the middle of the league was overrated. The Big East got six teams in because of the OOC. That is what ultimately determines the cap of teams you can get it. The BE is the 4th rated league by Sagarin (right there with the SEC and well ahead of the Pac-12 and ACC). The league is 4-4 in the tournament so far and 1-0 in the NIT. It is a good league. However, I do believe that we need to schedule better in the OOC going forward. I ignore the "but we play in the Big East." 80 teams play in the power conferences (ACC, BE, B1G, Big XII, Pac-12, SEC). They all have roughly the same difficult league schedules (give or take), but the difference is how these programs schedule OOC. We should be playing a minimum of 6 power conference opponents OOC. Failure to do so (like this year) deprives the team the opportunity to play multiple different styles across different leagues AND referees. [/QUOTE]