Saturday in the Big East Conference

11:00 - Butler @ Georgetown, CBS - Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas


1:00 - 1 Villanova @ Marquette, FOX - Gus Johnson, Jim Jackson


3:00 - DePaul @ Providence, CBSSN - Tom McCarthy, Pete Gillen

DePaul has a chance to sweep Providence. Bentil has to sit out after getting a Flagrant 2 last night, and Dunn has been sick and looked bad last night. Would not be ideal for the Friars postseason hopes!

By the way, did anyone see the Bentil's flagrant 2 last night? I could see a flagrant 1, but thought the flagrant 2 looked like another example of Big East officials overreacting. Zagoria has a tweet saying Bentil will not have to sit because it didn't involve fighting.

Oh ya, I was watching! I guess Brando was saying in the letter of the rule it was a flagrant 2, but the refs could have used common sense.

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Originally Posted by MU/Panther

but the refs could have used common sense.

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Why would they start now?

Big OT win for Butler at G'town. A loss there would have really hurt their tourney chances.

Kellen Dunham scored 29 points as Butler survived a late collapse and overtime session to beat Georgetown 90-87. Butler lead 79-66, with 2:37 left.

Butler and Providence may have punched their tickets today. One more win wouldn't hurt either, but those were needed wins.

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Originally Posted by Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"

Butler and Providence may have punched their tickets today. One more win wouldn't hurt either, but those were needed wins.

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Both probably need one more win each to feel totally secure (and in Providence's case, two losses means one to St. John's). I will say that any team from A-10 or American not named Dayton or UConn getting in ahead of any tourney caliber Big East team would be utter garbage. How either of those leagues is looking at 3-4 bids is mind blowing given that they did nothing in non-conference play and fatten up on the shitty bottom halves of their leagues (that may as well be low-major teams). I realize that Creighton is not making it in real life, but I would favor them against any American or A-10 team not named Dayton or UConn.