Big East Non Conference Results

[Herman Cain]

DePaul won without Max Struss tonight. Dickie Simpkins says DePaul can "challenge for 5th in the league "and his other big favorite is MU.

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

DePaul won without Max Struss tonight. Dickie Simpkins says DePaul can "challenge for 5th in the league "and his other big favorite is MU.

Yeah, I watched the second half (while trying to catch up to the NM posts) and lots of references to Marquette.

[brewcity77]

DePaul won without Max Struss tonight. Dickie Simpkins says DePaul can "challenge for 5th in the league "and his other big favorite is MU.

Dickie is an idiot. That he is saying Providence is currently the best team in the league only underscores that.

[JakeBarnes]

Prov with a nice win on the road at BC in OT.

[MarquetteDano]

Prov with a nice win on the road at BC in OT.

Man can Cooley coach.  With the amount of frosh on the roster and what they lost from last year.... amazing.

[Herman Cain]

Big road win in overtime for Cooley and Company tonight on the road against BC. The Hall got the job done as well against New Hampshire. 

[IrwinFletcher]

DePaul won without Max Struss tonight. Dickie Simpkins says DePaul can "challenge for 5th in the league

Dickie is a moron.

"and his other big favorite is MU.

Dickie knows his stuff.

[Oldgym]

No surprises tonight. Yet.

SJU 85-71 over Mt St Marys
X 82-61 over Ohio U
Butler 70-55 over Brown

Nova down 4 to Temple early 2nd half.

[forgetful]

No surprises tonight. Yet.

SJU 85-71 over Mt St Marys
X 82-61 over Ohio U
Butler 70-55 over Brown

Nova down 4 to Temple early 2nd half.

Nova looking ugly again tonight.

[BM1090]

This conference is very winnable

[Oldgym]

Nova wins by 10.

[MUBigDance]

This Saturday Real Big 8 games for BE. Lots of tough competition. By rankings I think we would be 3-5. But I'm hoping on 5-3 (or better ).

I think Providence should also handle UMass Friday.

BE 64-18....with about 125-126 non-conf games....can we get to 100 wins?!

[MarquetteDano]

This Saturday Real Big 8 games for BE. Lots of tough competition. By rankings I think we would be 3-5. But I'm hoping on 5-3 (or better ).

Huge ask to go 5-3 on Sat. Would be awesome. 4-4 looks more achievable.

[wadesworld]

My only concern is MU going 1-0.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

My only concern is MU going 1-0.

Wades subscribes to Wojo's newsletter. 

[MUBigDance]

My only concern is MU going 1-0.

That's on the top of my list too....but in a thread called: "Big East Non Conference Results", I'll venture an opinion on other things.

[wadesworld]

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Wades doesn't really care what the rest of the Big East does.  I know some chicken littles looked into 2 bad nights as far as conference results in the middle of November and came to the conclusion that the Big East is now the A10 or SoCon, depending on who was posting, but the reality is not one person I've ever talked to that isn't a Wisconsin (who are just looking to get a rise out of the chicken little Marquette fans) or Marquette fan think the Big East is anything but one of the top 3 (overall, maybe not necessarily this year) basketball conferences in the country, and not one expert I've heard talk/seen write about the Big East thinks otherwise, either.  If Nova, Butler, Seton Hall, Providence, Xavier, and Creighton are all down this year, that's great by me.  Time to take advantage and win a Big East title.

I never cared how the rest of the conference did in the old version of the Big East.  In fact, I always wanted to see Cuse, Louisville, etc. lose every game they played.  I have continued to not care what other teams in the BE do.  The BE is juuuuuust fine.  I enjoy seeing Nova do well because I like their style of play and think Jay Wright is a classy guy and a great coach, not because they're in the same conference as us.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

My head always wants the other Big East to win because it makes Marquette's tournament resume stronger.

My heart always wants the other Big East teams to lose because I hate those guys.

[MUMountin]

My head always wants the other Big East to win because it makes Marquette's tournament resume stronger.

My heart always wants the other Big East teams to lose because I hate those guys.

Funny...I still have trouble "hating" any of the other current BE teams--all of the real "rivals" (teams I loved to hate) left in expansion. 

[MarquetteDano]

Funny...I still have trouble "hating" any of the other current BE teams--all of the real "rivals" (teams I loved to hate) left in expansion.

Plenty to hate from new BE Creighton and Butler fans.

Sorry CreightonWarrior!

[BM1090]

Funny...I still have trouble "hating" any of the other current BE teams--all of the real "rivals" (teams I loved to hate) left in expansion.

I'm starting to hate some of them. SJU because they always beat us in frustrating ways at their place. X because of their fans. Butler because they have owned Wojo.

[Johnny B]

Difference with this new conference is we need all the teams to win as much as we can as this conference is small and not fully secured or established yet.

[BM1090]

Difference with this new conference is we need all the teams to win as much as we can as this conference is small and not fully secured or established yet.

Pretty sure Nova established it 2 of the past 3 years

[jsglow]

My head always wants the other Big East to win because it makes Marquette's tournament resume stronger.

My heart always wants the other Big East teams to lose because I hate those guys.

I never see it that way.  I view the BEast like siblings.  Sure it's easy to hate on them.  That is until the kid from the next block picks on your little brother.

[Lennys Tap]

the reality is not one person I've ever talked to that isn't a Wisconsin (who are just looking to get a rise out of the chicken little Marquette fans) or Marquette fan think the Big East is anything but one of the top 3 (overall, maybe not necessarily this year) basketball conferences in the country, and not one expert I've heard talk/seen write about the Big East thinks otherwise, either. 

This is the 6th year of the "New Big East". In year one (IIRC) we weren't in the top 5, this year we check in at #5. I'm not exactly sure where Pomeroy had us the other 4 years, maybe a 2nd, two 3rds and a 4th? To say that only UW fans and chicken little MU fans (and zero "experts) would rank the conference outside the top 3 is inaccurate. The ACC is head and shoulders above us and the Big 12 is clearly #2. Whether we've been 3 or 4 depends on where you put the Big 10.

If you're not concerned with the conference's trajectory, though, I think you're dead wrong. Villanova's amazing run has kept the conference at #3 or #4 because in the final Pomeroy rankings they've been rated 11,5,1,2, and 1. Meanwhile no other Big East team has finished in the top 13 - ever. Only Xavier (#14 in2016 and #15 last year,) Creighton (#17 in 2014) and Butler (#20 in 2015) have cracked the top 20. In 2017 our second highest rated team was Butler at #25. If Villanova (currently #19 and still the conferences highest ranked) slips even a little from their run as the #1 program in the land the conference will settle in the 4/5 area. I thinks that's likely.