Um, what did I just say?
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I'm not parroting a narrative from him or anybody. I could say that you are parroting a national media/the tournament is all that matters narrative.
I am only trying to place things in the proper perspective. In its second year the new Big East put six teams in the tournament. That's good. It will not advance as many teams to second weekend as we had hoped. That's bad. A 5-6 or so record is not horrible.
As the years go by, all the conferences have years where they perform well, or average, or bad in the tournament. Keep putting teams in the dance and our time will come. Hopefully with Marquette involved.
Seriously, don't accuse me of parroting Chicos again.
OK, that was clearly a low blow. :D
But for better or worse, this tournament is what counts when it comes to conference reputations. And for the second year in a row, the conference can't get its champions into the second weekend. For the second year in a row, assuming Butler loses tonight and Xavier next weekend, there will not be a single win where a BE team won as the lower seed.
That's bad.
Butler back in it. Tied at 27. Maybe we can sneek 2 into the round of 16. Would that be acceptable, even if it wasn't our top 2?
I agree with this. Big East is 5-4 not counting what Butler does. Some predicted the Big East to go 1-5 on Thursday/Friday. This year we wanted more teams in the tourney, we got it. Nova was the huge letdown, obviously, but if the conference keeps recruiting well, we will eventually get some teams to advance deep.
It is time for MU to get back on the scene and make some noise.
I think Jay Wright is a great coach, and I understand trying to be calm and collected on the sideline, but at what point do you call a timeout and really get in your players' face, take your coat off, show some emotion? Villanova looked nervous to make mistakes, instead of confident and loose like they had in non-conference and conference play. Also, Villanova was playing in Pittsburgh, their home state, I did not notice (hear on TV) much support from their fans. I think of Dayton's fans last night, they gave Dayton a huge boost. Maybe Villanova fans were saving their trip for the Regionals in Syracuse.
I like what Jay Wright said postgame, they are disappointed, they will own it, and they will learn from it. Wright continues to recruit well. Very disappointing, but they are not going anywhere. Can't label Wright with the Pre-2014 Bo Ryan label, Wright made the Final 4 in 2009.
Fellas, I got the bottle of Makers flowing pretty good right now after that Nova loss. If Butler loses I may just start taking pulls.
Not a good day at all.
Dunn had foul trouble from the first minute and their big two scorers shot like crap. Sometimes you just play terrible. Unfortunately for Villanova and Providence, they picked the worst time to be bad.
How do you even call that a jump ball???????? Amazingly bad!
Dunham should have shot-faked, had enough time with 2 seconds.
Disappointing play when they had it with 20 seconds left and the shot clock off. Spread the floor for a Jones drive? I mean, c'mon.
Way too many f'ing timeouts in basketball. In hindsight, probably would have been better off just playing it out at the end. I bet they would have won the game in regulation.
Brutal showing for the big east, just brutal. Huge disappointment for the league - all the naysayers were proven right. Ugh this sucks!!
Notre Dame's first Sweet 16 since 2003, did not realize it had been that long.
Really tough when the smartest, scrappiest dude on the floor jumps on a shot fake 3. C'mon dude, you're 5 foot nothing, what's the point of jumping anyway?
Proud of Butler's effort and fight! Thank you, Xavier for making it to the Sweet 16.
Yeah, lets not get so dramatic. Butler was a #6 and lost to a #3. Georgetown was a #4 and lost to a #5. Villanova was what made it a horrible day for the Big East. Overall 5-5 and with Arizona likely defeating Xavier, quite likely 5-6. Not good, but not 1-6 as one basketball writer predicted. Lets not forget there were 9 ACC teams that did not even make the tournament.
Big East ... 2-4 in NCAA a year ago.
Big East ... 5-5 with 1 team in Sweet 16 this year.
Awesome results? No, especially with Nova losing in 2nd round.
But an improvement from a year ago.
Further improvement necessary.
The league will continue to do better with the coaching and recruiting, and Marquette will be at the forefront of that (quite likely next year). Nova just had horrific luck tonight in four good shooters going a combined 0-14 from three (their normal 5 or so of those go in, they win comfortably). Any complaining from media members just enlightens me to their idiocy, and well there are a whole lot of idiots in the sports and college basketball media (a big reason why I never pursued a career in that despite it being my major).
Dude, take some medication.
I'm an adult so let me respond like a grown up. If you were capable of understanding what I meant, I'm saying logic doesn't matter. The league is sending one team to the Sweet 16 and is getting crucified tonight. Close losses, seeds, location - to the vast majority this doesn't matter. That's just the reality of it.