Big East Banking It

[brewcity77]

Villanova looking overdrawn right now.

[chren21]

Villanova looking overdrawn right now.

Not good.

[Nevada233]

Come on Nova! Gotta pull for em. Not lookin good tho

[Herman Cain]

I would defer to anyone with superior info, but I seem to recall creds being shared evenly between the C7 schools and the three new schools would not be eligible for equal credit shares for X amount of years.  I can't remember where I heard or read that.

The C7 each kept their own NCAA credits from the Old Big East. New Big East has an asymmetrical sharing model that gives more to the teams that win the shares and less to the ones that don't . Still good for us.

[Litehouse]

The C7 each kept their own NCAA credits from the Old Big East. New Big East has an asymmetrical sharing model that gives more to the teams that win the shares and less to the ones that don't . Still good for us.

You sure about that?

[MattyWarrior]

Beast with one team left after tonite?

[geps]

If you would have said Xavier would be the only BE team in sweet 16 i'd have said you're nuts. Well better than the 0 last year. Honestly pretty disappointed in league tourney play.

[RushmoreAcademy]

Not so fast. Butler let's do this.

[breadtree]

Yay. conference pride. Yay

[ChicosBailBonds]

Yay. conference pride. Yay

Do you want me to pull up a bunch of your posts talking about conference pride on your site?  I'm happy to do it hypocrite. 

[79Warrior]

Beast with one team left after tonite?

Pretty sad if true. ACC and Pac 12 getting it done

[Sylvester78]

And our one team beat Ole Miss and Georgia State

Two years and and no eyes on the television..this is not good

[chapman]

Big East Tanking It

Need to get back and show these teams how not to suck in the tournament

[79Warrior]

And our one team beat Ole Miss and Georgia State

Two years and and no eyes on the television..this is not good

Only one team advancing is not a good showing. Pundits proved correct, unfortunately.

[breadtree]

Do you want me to pull up a bunch of your posts talking about conference pride on your site?  I'm happy to do it hypocrite. 

Yes. Please do.

[MDMU04]

Yay. conference pride. Yay

Posting on another team's message board at 11:30 on a Saturday night. Why aren't I surprised that you don't seem to have anything better to do?

[HutchwasClutch]

Only one team advancing is not a good showing. Pundits proved correct, unfortunately.

Agree completely, and I said when a few were crowing about getting 6 teams in the dance, they better do something with it.  And they didn't.  

I will say this though, this tournament is so much predicated on matchups and draws.  I know I'm by no means the first to say that, but it's an understated truth.  What does it say based on regular season results that Xavier, the one that was .500 in conference play, is the lone Big East team standing?  Not to make excuses for Villanova, but they played like a #1 seed with all the pressures that carries.  They looked very tight last night, start to finish.How many games out of a 100 are they going to shoot that poorly as a team?  Very few, and NC State played like a team with nothing to lose.  

All the craziness of this tournament, which of course is the beauty of it too and why it brings casual and non- college basketball fans in this time of year.

Oh well, not the end of the world.  It's only year two of the reconfigured league.  

[VegasWarrior77]

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell  3m3 minutes ago
ACC teams have already earned $28 million from this year's tournament http://es.pn/1EJnxJp

[GGGG]

Yay. conference pride. Yay

It's not just about pride.  It's about $$$.

[Eldon]

It's not just about pride.  It's about $$$.

And recruiting.

Hey kid, how would you like to play against the likes of UConn, Syracuse, and Louisville?

[4everwarriors]

Yeah, and everyone thought Bumstead was nuts for boltin' a mid-major like MU, ai na?

[mu03eng]

Only consolation is that the Big 12 crapped the bed too.  Granted they have 2 instead of 1 team in the Sweet Sixteen but they wildly underperformed as well.  ACC is looking like the BMOC