Big East Rankings Thus Far

[FF03]

Gottlieb posted a piece this morning ranking the Big East thus far in the following order:

1) Pitt, 2) Nova, 3) Cuse, 4) ND, 5) Gtown, 6) UCONN, 7) Louisville, 8) St. Johns, 9) MU......

He had this to say about MU: "Athletic and active, but they have lost to every good team they have played. My guess is they will leapfrog Louisville and St. John's, but it is hard to pick them until they get a solid win."

I don't disagree with him regarding MU in that we have no solid wins(thank God we won yesterday).  However, I think we have a good possibility to pass up Gtown, UCONN, Ville, and St. Johns. 

Gtown:  I think is overrated and this showed against ND
UCONN:  Has 1 dominant player and they may have peaked already
Ville:  Not enough talent top to bottom
St. Johns: Give them a year

[FF03]

Oh, and he also rated Rutgers #14....

A loss on Wednesday would be terribly disappointing

[avid1010]

For the fun of it...

1) Cuse, 2) Pitt, 3) Nova, 4) Gtown, 5) UCONN, 6) Louisville, 7) MU, 8) ND, 9) Cincy.

In the end, I think the BEAST has a bunch of good teams, but no great teams.

[PGsHeroes32]

ND is much higher than 8 right now.

Im still not convinced in Cincy. Uconn I think is way overrated and a 1 man show. I feel we are better than Lousiville and St Johns.

Hopefully we can split with ND. I hate those guys.

Nova, Pitt, Cuse and Gtown are all better than us but I believe we can end up beating any 1 of them when we play them with Pitt being by far the toughest to try and upset on the road.

[ChicosBailBonds]

For the fun of it...

1) Cuse, 2) Pitt, 3) Nova, 4) Gtown, 5) UCONN, 6) Louisville, 7) MU, 8) ND, 9) Cincy.

In the end, I think the BEAST has a bunch of good teams, but no great teams.

Curious why you would have ND ranked below MU since they beat UW and MU lost to UW?  ND is considerably ahead of MU in every computer power rating, and if you believe the human polls, them too.

Just curious.

Mine

Pitt, Cuse, Nova, ND, UCONN, G'Town, St. John's, Louisville, MU

[Coleman]

So do 9 Big East teams make the tournament this year? Does 10-8 and 9th place get us in?

[willie warrior]

So do 9 Big East teams make the tournament this year? Does 10-8 and 9th place get us in?

Doubt it. If we want in, we have to win 20 and have 4 quality wins.

[Coleman]

Doubt it. If we want in, we have to win 20 and have 4 quality wins.

10-8 and 1 Big East tourny win gets us to 20. I think that would  be enough. But 10-8 and a tourny loss probably wouldn't, IMO.

[MerrittsMustache]

So do 9 Big East teams make the tournament this year? Does 10-8 and 9th place get us in?

It depends on who MU beats for those 10 wins and who they lose to for those 8 losses.

[MerrittsMustache]

Curious why you would have ND ranked below MU since they beat UW and MU lost to UW?  ND is considerably ahead of MU in every computer power rating, and if you believe the human polls, them too.

Not saying MU should be ranked higher than ND, but results against a common opponent is a pretty useless way to compare two teams...unless, of course, you believe that College of charleston is better than Pitt and Villanova (see results vs. Tennessee).