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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4069837, member: 1023"]
LOL, I guess reading comprehension isn’t required to graduate from Villanova.  I have said time and time again Villanova is the exception.  It was a top program in the Big East.  It is a top program in the NEWBIE.  A national level power.

The rest just aren’t.  Not to say somebody might not have a dream season, but if they do, it’s pretty likely the coach will be somewhere else the following year.

That’s Butler. That’s Marquette.  And none of those have been more than meh since the formation of the NEWBIE.  UConn is a special case I think.  The Huskies were a true elite program for 25 years.  But since then they have ranged from just another average program to pretty terrible at the end of the Ollie era.  The next few years will tell I think, whether they return to that level or just hang around as a typical NEWBIE where an NCAA bid is considered a great season.  I’m not confident that they didn’t make this move as the equivalent of Miami’s to the ACC.  It was too damned hard to be a great program.  They can be very average and still get noticed in the NEWBIE.   As I said, we‘ll see.

Oh, and wake me when Creighton does something memorable.
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