Van Pelt On Big East

[Goose85]

Briefly heard Scott Van Pelt on ESPN and he was saying Villanova shouldn't be a #1 seed and he is not sure why the committee gave so much love to the Big East.

He compared it to when the Mountain West had more teams than he thought they deserved a few years back, and how happy he was when they weren't successful proving him right.

He said he didn't think the Big East conference was that good this year, and doesn't think they will do much in the tourney. Nice job on the company line SVP.

[The Reptile]

Yet noting about wisconsin@madison making the most of the bottom dwellers in their unbalanced schedule. Totally fair and balanced.

[MU/Panther]

Has SVP even watch the Big East? Big East got love because they won key games in the non-conference
If UCLA wins in the tournament still does't mean they should have made the field.

[IrwinFletcher]

Doug Gottlieb was on the Score today. His line about Villanova was this.

"Villanova stacked wins against a mid-major laden Big East Schedule".

Maybe the guys at FS1 should rip on the ACC then and we can call it even.

[warriorfan4life]

I think a lot of people will be surprised at the level of basketball that the Big East plays. Having really ramped up my hoops watching over the past few weeks, there is no league that plays at a distinct higher level and many teams that are not as well coached or play as well together as Big East teams. For a team like Butler, whatever talent disadvantage they have against Texas will be more then compensated for by their superior effort and teamwork (and anyone that picks Texas over Butler has not watched them play over the past two months). I would be surprised if there were fewer then three Big East teams playing in the second weekend, and the only one that I have zero faith in is St John's (and they could win a rock fight against San Diego State in their opening game).

[79warrior]

Briefly heard Scott Van Pelt on ESPN and he was saying Villanova shouldn't be a #1 seed and he is not sure why the committee gave so much love to the Big East.

He compared it to when the Mountain West had more teams than he thought they deserved a few years back, and how happy he was when they weren't successful proving him right.

He said he didn't think the Big East conference was that good this year, and doesn't think they will do much in the tourney. Nice job on the company line SVP.

MadDog Russo on sirius was ripping the BE today also. Said Nova is not a 1 and the BE is not all that good. This is why I feel we needs post season wins. It goes not matter if our conference rip was #1. If we get smoked in the NCAA, then the critics will harp about how the conference is weak.

[MU/Panther]

Do any of these clowns watch college basketball untill after the super bowl is done? Wasn't there all these great articles about how well the Big East did in November, what has changed for some.

I'm a bit surprised in what Gottlieb had to say.

[Markedman]

So it was perfectly fine for Wichita State to get a 1 seed last year by going 34-0 in the MVC but Nova has no business getting a 1 by going 32-2 in the # 2 RPI league in 2015?

These media guys are just a joke

[MUBasketball]

Villanova:

#2 RPI
#24 SOS (Kentucky's is #25)
13-1 vs. RPI Top 50 (Virginia is 8-3 -- Arizona is 9-0, however they were 9-3 vs. RPI 101-200, while Nova was 13-0).

So, I'm confused. Numbers lie, apparently? These dumbass blowhards run their mouths and never back anything up with tangible evidence.

[Markedman]

They have decided that the top 50 wins against Big East teams don't really count ....because they are just Big East teams......or something like that......