Scholarship table
This is neat, even if completely absent of any real value.
Like much of Scoop!
I'm calling Bill Walton.
Does anyone know if he did the rankings at the beginning of the season? I have to think that the Big East had one of the smallest land areas of any conference.DePaul, St. John's, Georgetown, Seton Hall, Providence and Xavier are extremely small (DePaul seems non-existent). Marquette, Villanova and Butler are all small. Even Creighton -- which is by far the largest, isn't very big.
Marquette still leading by a pretty wide margin. Unfortunately....1) Beating St. John's won't gain any ground2) Losing to St. John's will lose everything!https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/ab21sp/college_basketball_imperialism_map_december_30/
I love this map regardless of the lack of actual value in basketball terms. I will let the creator use their own rules however they see fit and just want to see the end result. Lots of people in New York City to be conquered if only Seton Hall hadn't beaten us to them!
So at the end of the year there should only be four schools on there right?
Ultimately, only one. Each team should bring any territory they have to the conference tournament where each champ would end up taking all the territory. Then each champ would bring that to the NCAA tournament.There could be exceptions if a team wasn't invited to the conference tournament with territory (Ivy League or a postseason ban) but ultimately one team should control the entire map.
Thanks to their upset of St. John's last night, our game against Providence on Saturday will be to consolidate all of the land that is held within the Big East.At present, Marquette's kingdom already includes more people (60 million) in more counties (464) than any other team. And we're third in land with 411,000 square miles (behind Kentucky who owns most of Alaska and San Diego State who just won a huge chunk in Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas). With a win on Saturday, Marquette could add another 7 million people in 86 counties and 48,000 square miles.
Knocking off Providence will help us compete with Yale for the elite New England students.