big east basketball tourney

[smazza]

there will be a pissed off team or two if they don't make top 12 and a trip to ny

i think league should and will change tourney to allow all 16 with top 4 teams getting bye in future

[smazza]

it helps recruiting telling a kid he will play in garden all 4 years

[USFPDiddy]

That's true.  I like the idea, not only because that's our only way in this year, but also it would add to the tournament.

[Joe]

The main reason for not doing the 16 teams was money, they would have to rent the Garden for an extra day for teams that they presume wouldn't sell as many tickets because they're in the bottom of the league.

If one of the bigger teams gets left out they might change it, but for now they have no desire to rent the Garden so USF and Providence can go head to head to see who gets to get whipped by UConn

[RJWGoBulls]

Also...if you believe the ESPN guys talking about the BE Commisioner, they were remarking that he chose to have only 12 teams in order to be able to give the top for teams a bye in the first round so that they only have to play 3 games in order to keep these top teams a game fresher for the NCAA championships

[flsportsfan83]

are we going this year?

[bullMD2005]

I'm hoping we see the BE tourney at any point in the next 5 years.

[flsportsfan83]

Id be willing to bet the farm CRM never gets us there

[ChiTownBull]

I'm hoping we see the BE tourney at any point in the next 5 years.

i say we see it within 3 yrs

[flsportsfan83]

Is Huggins coming?