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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4851806, member: 1023"]
This is right.  Without us and with Villanova in rebuilding mode, there is nobody that moves the needle.  The UConn-Butler game was the highest rated FS1 game since 2016.  I’m going to guess that nobody watched because it was Butler.  Even New Yorkers don’t follow St John’s any more.  We long ago supplanted PC as the New England’s national representative.  Of course there is always DePaul.  If they played a game and one didn’t show up, did the other team play DePaul?

On the question of the refs, they were awful in general. Newton is running with a guy on his back half the time and nothing.  On the other hand, at least twice I saw he took at least 2 steps before starting to dribble and no call.  And while I realize that calling traveling is passé in basketball at any level, these were egregious.

The New Big East actually prefers rock fights.  Without them the front office couldn’t promote the rough tough attitude it likes to project.  Someone on another thread referred to it as 1990s NBA style of play.  That is just so right.
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