9 Big East teams in the top 45 RPI right now....incredible.
The Pac Ten has 5
ACC 5
Big 12 has 6
Big Ten has 4
SEC has 4.
Take out the cusa teams and it would still be 7...with CUSA having 3
pretty amazing
Quote from: Schoolyard on February 03, 2008, 08:06:45 PM
Take out the cusa teams and it would still be 7...with CUSA having 3
Isn't it about time to stop referring to us (and the other 4 teams) as CUSA teams? We're in the big east now, and have been for 3 years...
To a certain extent, the BE season is a tournament in itself.
And if you're doing a bracket today, all nine make the tournament. And that doesn't include Providence and Villanova at the moment, who with something like 7-2 second halves could make a case as well. Kind of like that year in C-USA where five teams tied for first at 12-4. While I don't mind the powerhouse team one bit, sometimes the year where there may be no dominant teams but lots of above-average teams can be a lot of fun, too.
Quote from: mwbauer7 on February 03, 2008, 09:37:43 PM
Quote from: Schoolyard on February 03, 2008, 08:06:45 PM
Take out the cusa teams and it would still be 7...with CUSA having 3
Isn't it about time to stop referring to us (and the other 4 teams) as CUSA teams? We're in the big east now, and have been for 3 years...
You're probably right, but after years of defending the upper echelon of CUSA to the snobbish Big East fans I live with out here, I still root hard for the CUSA transplants in the Big East.