Big East Hoops

[JoeB]

Come tourney time the Big East will have some serious contenders.  Here is a list of 10 teams I think will get in to the Big Dance.  I hope I didn't forget anybody.

Connecticut

Pitt

Syracuse

Louisville

Cincinnati

West Virginia

Georgetown

Villanova

Marquette

and possibly St. John's or DePaul

Go Big EAST!!

[Joe]

Locks by Feb:

UCONN

Pitt

Syracuse

Louisville

WVU

Nova

Cincy

Georgetown will be on the border, I know they beat Duke but they have not been consistent all year. Duke is also their only win verse an RPI Top 100. Marquette will be in teh same position and if it came down to it Marquette, because of their RPI, would get the nod over Georgetown.

DePaul is out they lost to Providence tonight.

St. John's is NIT bound they will have too many losses including teams like Marist and Hofstra, which won't play well to the NCAA committee in March.

The Big East is the BEST conference in the country right now hands down. Unfortunatly there are a lot of very good mid majors this year that will steal bids from the bigger guys.

BE: 7-8

ACC: 6-7

Big 10: 6-7

SEC: 4-5

Pac 10: 3-5

Big 12: 3-5

A-10, CUSA, MAC, MWC, and WAC have strong chances to get 2 in

MVC could get 3-4 in. (In fact many predict 4)

[Bull Matrix]

The BIG EAST is so tough this season that  a program like Louisville may get left out of the BIG DANCE. Doug Gotlieb made an interesting statement that UL really has no big OOC wins with the soft schedule that they played. Even one their so-called matchup against Kentucky hurts because UK is really down this season. Right now, UL has 1 Big East win to show for which is going to make it hard for them to climb up the BIG EAST ladder. I wont be surprised if they happen to miss the tourny this season. It should be an interesting race in the BIG EAST. There are really no easy wins in this league. Not even against USF right now as crazy as that may seem.

[Kyle]

I think Georgetown is in before Louisville.

[bulls96go]

we will not be dancing

[Guest Sprtsfn627]

Goin' Dancing:

West Virginia

UConn

Pitt

Villanova

Marquette

Syracuse

On the Bubble:

Louisville

Rutgers

Cincinnati

St. John's

Georgetown

NIT:

Seton Hall

Notre Dame

Stayin Home:

USF

Providence

DePaul

I agree with the others that Louisville is in serious trouble.  Their only quality win so far is against Miami.  They will need 18 wins to get to the dance, and I'm not sure they get there.

Georgetown and Cincy should get there, but it's too early to say right now.

[Joe]

I think Marquette is on the bubble still at this point. Louisville will win mor eonce they get Taquan Dean back, they played UCONN tough without him.

[Unintelligibull]

At least we dance toe to toe with those who go to the big dance.

Our turn is coming soon.