Big East 2021-2022 Season Thread

[rocky_warrior]

TV schedule and Times set for Big East Schedule.

https://www.bigeast.com/news/2021/9/29/big-east-announces-2021-22-mens-basketball-television-schedule.aspx

3 games on CBSSN
1 game on FS2
1 game on Fox

Rest on FS1

YTTV still the best bet?  Legit question haven't looked at options yet this year.

[Mr. Nielsen]

YTTV still the best bet?  Legit question haven't looked at options yet this year.

Yes, sir! That is what I have.

[Mr. Nielsen]

TV schedule and Times set for Big East Schedule.

https://www.bigeast.com/news/2021/9/29/big-east-announces-2021-22-mens-basketball-television-schedule.aspx

3 games on CBSSN
1 game on FS2
1 game on Fox

Rest on FS1

Your count is off. I'm guess your count is only conference games.

3 on FS2
15 on FS1
4 on CBSSN
4 on ESPN family of networks
2 on FOX
3 still TBD

[Newsdreams]

Your count is off. I'm guess your count is only conference games.

3 on FS2
15 on FS1
4 on CBSSN
3 on ESPN family of networks
2 on FOX
3 still TBD

Butler game on Fox most likely NMD?

[Mr. Nielsen]

Butler game on Fox most likely NMD?

It's confirmed as NMD

[zcg2013]

Your count is off. I'm guess your count is only conference games.

3 on FS2
15 on FS1
4 on CBSSN
3 on ESPN family of networks
2 on FOX
3 still TBD

Correct, count was based on that release, did not look at MU's website, so this was solely conference based.

[Herman Cain]

TV schedule and Times set for Big East Schedule.

https://www.bigeast.com/news/2021/9/29/big-east-announces-2021-22-mens-basketball-television-schedule.aspx

3 games on CBSSN
1 game on FS2
1 game on Fox

Rest on FS1

Looking forward to Mr Nielsen's pinned post with the details at the top again.

[Johnny B]

no cbs 😪

[MU82]

It's confirmed as NMD

On a Saturday? That's outrageous!

[Billy Hoyle]

another big commitment for Mike Anderson and St. John's.  The question was whether he could recruit NYC. Well, 8 guys (with this year's commitments) are NYC guys and MA has established a strong Our Savior Lutheran pipeline going. The Van Macon hire is proving to be a huge one. 

https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/jaquan-sanders-commits-to-st-johns-over-seton-hall/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

and, 20 days later, Sanders decommits from SJU, citing needing to get away from NYC and "distractions." A pretty mature decision if that is actually the reason.

[Herman Cain]

and, 20 days later, Sanders decommits from SJU, citing needing to get away from NYC and "distractions." A pretty mature decision if that is actually the reason.

Was probably offered more money

[Billy Hoyle]

Was probably offered more money

I was definitely thinking it.

That said, there is something positive about getting away from bad influences. Case in point: Rysheed Jordan. Here's the NY Post article: https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/jaquan-sanders-explains-decision-to-decommit-from-st-johns/

[Herman Cain]

I was definitely thinking it.

That said, there is something positive about getting away from bad influences. Case in point: Rysheed Jordan. Here's the NY Post article: https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/jaquan-sanders-explains-decision-to-decommit-from-st-johns/

Sounds like his Mom wants him to go to school in a non urban setting.

[Billy Hoyle]

Sounds like his Mom wants him to go to school in a non urban setting.

Or just away from neighborhood influences. His brother goes to Cincy.

The main reason Deane didn't recruit Milwaukee kids was he was worried about outside influences from family, friends, hangers on, etc.

[Mr. Nielsen]

3 on FS2
15 on FS1
4 on CBSSN
5 on ESPN family of networks
3 on FOX
1 TBD

You can add another game on FOX.
11:30AM @ Wisconsin

[Mr. Nielsen]

Kansas State is at 8pm. ESPN2/U

[Billy Hoyle]

Nova continues to roll. From The Athletic:

Five-star forward Cam Whitmore has committed to Villanova, choosing the Wildcats over Illinois and North Carolina.

The 6-foot-6, 200-pound player for Archbishop Spalding is the No. 24 prospect in the 2022 class, according to the 247Sports Composite Rating. He is the No. 6 small forward in the class and the No. 1 recruit coming out of Maryland.

"The history Villanova has speaks for itself, the national championships," Whitmore said. "Coach Wright just got inducted into the Hall of Fame. I mean, that's pretty big."

Whitmore becomes the third recruit to commit to Villanova, joining four-star guards Mark Armstrong (No. 46) from St. Peters Prep in New Jersey and Brendan Hausen (No. 106) from Texas' Amarillo High School.

[Galway Eagle]

Jay wright during his two or three down years 'we got too focused on the stars of the player and stopped recruiting our type of guys'

Is he making the same mistake?

[brewcity77]

Jay wright during his two or three down years 'we got too focused on the stars of the player and stopped recruiting our type of guys'

Is he making the same mistake?

I don't think so. In recent years, they've built the program around those 30-80 ranked guys that are "their type" and had success sprinkling in the Omari Spellman/JRE types, and not dropped significantly when a Bryan Antoine didn't pan out. I think it works better for Wright when he is supplementing a solid roster with the occasional 5-star rather than building the roster around them.

[Galway Eagle]

I don't think so. In recent years, they've built the program around those 30-80 ranked guys that are "their type" and had success sprinkling in the Omari Spellman/JRE types, and not dropped significantly when a Bryan Antoine didn't pan out. I think it works better for Wright when he is supplementing a solid roster with the occasional 5-star rather than building the roster around them.

Gotcha. Fair take.

[brewcity77]

It goes back to 2012, the last time Nova missed the tourney. Supposedly after the season, Jay yelled at his assistants "get me some f**cling guys I can coach!" The names I've most heard associated with that comment were Maalik Wayns and Mouphtaou Yarou, both top-25 types who never became what we think of as today's Villanova-type players, after 2 bids and 1 NCAA win in their first three years. And this was after winning 11 NCAA games in five years.

They focused on more team oriented guys that grew into roles, like Josh Hart, Ryan Arcidiacono, Daniel Ochefu, Kris Jenkins, and Donte DiVincenzo, then added the occasional Jalen Brunson/Omari Spellman when they needed extra punch. Honestly, I'm hoping Shaka's VCU success & seeing what didn't work at Texas has him at a place where he learned that same lesson.

[Galway Eagle]

It goes back to 2012, the last time Nova missed the tourney. Supposedly after the season, Jay yelled at his assistants "get me some f**cling guys I can coach!" The names I've most heard associated with that comment were Maalik Wayns and Mouphtaou Yarou, both top-25 types who never became what we think of as today's Villanova-type players, after 2 bids and 1 NCAA win in their first three years. And this was after winning 11 NCAA games in five years.

They focused on more team oriented guys that grew into roles, like Josh Hart, Ryan Arcidiacono, Daniel Ochefu, Kris Jenkins, and Donte DiVincenzo, then added the occasional Jalen Brunson/Omari Spellman when they needed extra punch. Honestly, I'm hoping Shaka's VCU success & seeing what didn't work at Texas has him at a place where he learned that same lesson.

I think it's more based on this article.

The mind-set was still there in 2009, when Villanova reached its first Final Four in 24 years, but after that achievement the program lost some of its edge. Wright has said that he got "sloppy" in his recruiting during this time, overemphasizing talent and stature and not fully considering how players might fit in the Wildcats' culture. Two years after that Final Four—where the Wildcats lost in the semifinals to eventual champion North Carolina—Villanova started 16–1 before collapsing, losing its final six games. The following season it finished 13–19. "Those were good players, and they weren't bad people," says Philadelphia 76ers assistant Billy Lange, who served on Wright's staff from '01 to '04 and '11 to '13. "They just weren't coming to Villanova for the same reasons Jay wants people to."

Around the same time he was returning to his original priorities, Wright made another important tweak. As the Wildcats were continually burned by opponents' three-point shooting, he commissioned Lange to figure out why. He spent the summer of 2013 chronicling every three-pointer Villanova had surrendered in its previous 27 games against high-level opponents and filed a 37-page report complete with pie charts and color-coded tables. "He probably read about two pages," Lange says now, but it was enough to grasp the report's primary conclusion: The best way Villanova could limit opponents' three-point damage was by emphasizing communication and reworking their ball-screen defense. It was the volume of opponents' threes, not their percentage of makes, that needed to be addressed.

Another of the Wildcats' many creeds is that defense leads to offense, and in this case the effect was literal. The same logic suggested that Villanova's offense would benefit from shooting more triples, and so Wright, already a deep-ball proponent and member of the small-ball avant-garde, built his rosters and game plans accordingly. In 2013–14, the first season after the study, the Wildcats' share of field goal attempts from beyond the arc leaped from 35.3% (112th in the country) to 44.8% (seventh). It has not dipped below 42.7% since.


https://www.si.com/college/2018/04/03/villanova-ncaa-national-champions-brunson-bridges-divincenzo-jay-wright

[Herman Cain]

Jay wright during his two or three down years 'we got too focused on the stars of the player and stopped recruiting our type of guys'

Is he making the same mistake?

Jay can recruit his kind of guy, and that player can also be very talented. All the success ensures Jay gets the pick of the litter of what he is looking for. 

[Billy Hoyle]

normally an interview with the AD at Depaul wouldn't be worthy of sharing, but on comment piqued my interest and may of others here too:

https://depauliaonline.com/55290/sports/dewayne-peevy-looks-back-on-first-year-as-athletic-director/

Peevy has a long-term vision for the athletic department, which includes eventually building a basketball facility in Lincoln Park and continuing to renovate the Sullivan Athletic Center. Something that isn't yet part of that long-term vision, but might come into play later down the road, is getting DePaul its own football program.  "Right now, from an athletics side, we have a lot of things to do before we can talk about football," he said. "But I'm not going to say never."

[tower912]

Then I will do it.   Never.