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FriarJ said:
I don’t disagree, Nova is our rival and has been since 2013-14. Had many great games. We haven’t even played you guys in front of our fans in almost a decade. No big deal.
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But the question is are you nova‘s rival?
 
I have to give the NBE a couple more years to see how things shake out and if PC turns out to be a great basketball rival, great. I'd like to see our biggest basketball rivals be Nova, SJU, Georgetown and perhaps PC and SHU. I give PC a lot of credit for doing so much more than BCU with much less financially. All that ACC money and BCU is still completely irrelevant. Oh the shame.
 
I think a rival has to have some hatred/extreme familiarity involved.
Syracuse and Providence come to mind (and we still have recruiting/transfer battles with them). I don't really hate Villanova. They're A rival, but they're not on the level of Syracuse or PC for us. I mean PC are literally in our backyard, pissing in our water.

I think our rivalry with PC will be strong next year and beyond, as long as Cooley didn't just catch lightning in a bottle last season. There's some legitimate sour grapes there between Hurley and Cooley and Floyd/UConn, etc.

It's really a shame we don't play Syracuse every year. That should be a given. Why can't we get a home and home with them? I want to kick their teeth in while they're down and send the whiner on his merry way.

Seton Hall could turn into a bigger rival in the coming years, depending on Shaheen's recruiting success.

I don't see Creighton as a big rival right now. And they certainly don't see us as a rival as we've never beaten them..lmao. There just isn't enough of a history yet and we aren't close enough geographically. And I sat with a bunch of folks from Creighton during this year's Big East Tournament. Friendly fanbase from what I can tell. They said they're cherishing their success against us now and know that it won't be like that for much longer.
 
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In the original Big East, our biggest rivals were Pitt and Syracuse. Obviously, we dislike Duke. Now, I would say Villanova and then Providence is becoming a distant second.
 
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We have no rivals. All teams use the standard we set to measure themselves.
 
shizzle787 said:
In the original Big East, our biggest rivals were Pitt and Syracuse. Obviously, we dislike Duke. Now, I would say Villanova and then Providence is becoming a distant second.
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This.

Syracuse was 1
Pitt was 1A
Villanova was second tier rivalry, a warm-up to the main event.
 
superjohn said:
We have to actually beat them before it's a rivalry.
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Even afterwards I gave a resounding “meh”, but you aren’t wrong.
 
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Hard to call Cuse a rival anymore. We just don’t play them enough. But we sure hate them a lot more than anyone else to this day

Nova is our truest rival

Creighton has a hatable fan base yet the team has had our number so that could be brewing

You’re at least 40 if you consider PC anything close to a rival
 
Rocktheworld said:
Hard to call Cuse a rival anymore. We just don’t play them enough. But we sure hate them a lot more than anyone else to this day

Nova is our truest rival

Creighton has a hatable fan base yet the team has had our number so that could be brewing

You’re at least 40 if you consider PC anything close to a rival
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We should be playing Syracuse very year hone and home in basketball.
 
Considering the recent history, their likely top 10-15 pre-season ranking and national TV coverage for both, the games against Creighton should be pretty heated this year.
 
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