Nice Day for Big East

[Golden Avalanche]

The more I watch other Big East teams the more I think we are in real trouble this year.

I've had that thought each of the last five years and yet this season I continue to come away not scared of our competition. Pittsburgh will win this league. But I don't see any great or unbeatable squads out there. It will be a mosh pit once again. Excellent win for Georgetown in what was a hostile environment.

And forgive the douchey pat-on-the-back moment but as I wrote earlier in this thread, UConn will need Kemba Walker to get 30 every single night for them to win. I just don't see that happening in conference.

[Marquette84]

I've had that thought each of the last five years and yet this season I continue to come away not scared of our competition. Pittsburgh will win this league. But I don't see any great or unbeatable squads out there. It will be a mosh pit once again. Excellent win for Georgetown in what was a hostile environment.

And forgive the douchey pat-on-the-back moment but as I wrote earlier in this thread, UConn will need Kemba Walker to get 30 every single night for them to win. I just don't see that happening in conference.

Given that Walker has essentially done that against the likes of MSU and Kentucky, short of an injury I think he'll probably come close to that if he and/or Calhoun want (or need) him to do so.

Sure, maybe he'll have an off night here and there. But I haven't seen anything that would suggest to me that the MSU and Kentucky games were flukes.

[MARQKC]

WOW GU and Mizzou go to OT.  This game is awesome.

Was at this game last night, and it was the best college basketball game I've seen in person since the 6OT game at the Big East Tournament in 2009 (http://sixovertimes.com/). Hoyas played cool all the way through, never looking rattled, and draining 18 or 18 FTs. If I did my math right, they missed one two-point FGA in the first half, and they missed just a handful of 3s. Just an awesome performance from a seasoned team.

An interesting contrast of styles (Mike Anderson/Mizzou/Big 12 vs. JTIII/Gtown/Big East), even as it appeared the coaches used the same tailor!

Sprint Center crowd in KC rocked. Pat Forde tweeted about the Missouri Arena and then corrected himself when it realized it was in Kansas City, and then went on to say KC is a great basketball town. Still, MizzouFan could've done better. There were about 4,000 empty seats, vs. sellouts both CBE nights last week. Perhaps to be expected this time of year when only two ranked teams are playing on one night, vs. three playing in four games on two nights last week.