Big East 2024 Offseason

[mugrad_89]

Beating Creighton there will be daunting. They just might win BEast.
Only way it happens for us is that we push tempo whole game. Run the legs out from Kalkenberger and we then can really dance

McDermott does not have a lot of faith in his bench, so I think some full court pressure makes sense.

[Uncle Rico]

Beating Creighton there will be daunting. They just might win BEast.
Only way it happens for us is that we push tempo whole game. Run the legs out from Kalkenberger and we then can really dance

Do you think Kalkenberger is better with or without lettuce?

[Herman Cain]

The Hall came close to tieing it up on what could have potentially been 4 point play , when their shooter pump faked and shot a 3 .

[brewcity77]

That's pretty much it. Big East is a 5-bid league, barring a bid thief. No realistic path for any of the bottom six to get an at-large.

[mugrad_89]

That's pretty much it. Big East is a 5-bid league, barring a bid thief. No realistic path for any of the bottom six to get an at-large.

Seton Hall probably blew their chance the other nite when they went ice cold down the stretch against Creighton.

[brewcity77]

Seton Hall probably blew their chance the other nite when they went ice cold down the stretch against Creighton.

No, had they won tonight, beat Georgetown and 'Nova at home, they would've just needed one of their other three games to get in. It's tonight that shuts the door because they aren't taking 2/3 out of @ UConn, Xavier, and @ Providence.

[willie warrior]

Do you think Kalkenberger is better with or without lettuce?

With lettuce and the onions embedded in his kielbasa. Dont like the guy.

[Uncle Rico]

With lettuce and the onions embedded in his kielbasa. Dont like the guy.

Huh

[Newsdreams]

Huh

Knows sausage?

[JakeBarnes]

Knows sausage?

Is this what a green weenie means?

[Herman Cain]

https://omaha.com/sports/college/creighton/shatel-creighton-uconn-shows-what-this-version-of-the-big-east-is-all-about/article_5fe8c3f2-aa67-11ed-bebd-9346fbc6c543.html

[Herman Cain]

Creighton at Cooley & Company. The Creighton Athletics Website article points out that Creighton has the best February record in The Big East dating back to 2020 .

Will be interesting to see what condition the floor will be in at The AMP (F/K/A The Dunc) 

https://gocreighton.com/news/2023/2/13/-18-mens-basketball-opens-road-week-at-24-providence.aspx

[CAGASS24]

I see a fair probability of a final four way tie atop the standings at 15-5….

[mugrad_89]

I see a fair probability of a final four way tie atop the standings at 15-5….

I think the league champion will end up with 3 or 4 losses at the most.

[JakeBarnes]

Creighton at Cooley & Company. The Creighton Athletics Website article points out that Creighton has the best February record in The Big East dating back to 2020 .

Will be interesting to see what condition the floor will be in at The AMP (F/K/A The Dunc) 

https://gocreighton.com/news/2023/2/13/-18-mens-basketball-opens-road-week-at-24-providence.aspx

Kalk got called for 2 fouls just stepping on the court for shootaround.

[wadesworld]

Kalk got called for 2 fouls just stepping on the court for shootaround.

Let's hope so.  But Creighton gets a pretty favorable whistle too, so we'll see.

[mugrad_89]

Let's hope so.  But Creighton gets a pretty favorable whistle too, so we'll see.

It’s gonna be fascinating to see which way the whistles go, because I would say these two teams benefit the most in the Big East from favorable officiating.

[StillWarriors]

Let's hope so.  But Creighton gets a pretty favorable whistle too, so we'll see.

Kalkbrenner played 36 minutes on Saturday at home v. UConn WITHOUT A SINGLE FOUL.

[mugrad_89]

Kalkbrenner played 36 minutes on Saturday at home v. UConn WITHOUT A SINGLE FOUL.

When they played Xavier a few weeks back, they were called for one foul in the first 16 minutes of the second half.  😳

[wadesworld]

Kalkbrenner played 36 minutes on Saturday at home v. UConn WITHOUT A SINGLE FOUL.

Yup. Going up against Sanogo no less.

[brewcity77]

Kalkbrenner played 36 minutes on Saturday at home v. UConn WITHOUT A SINGLE FOUL.

This is why I really want Shaka to win BECOY this year. The refs seem to give extra leash to coaches that have that award. Two of the last three winners are McDermott and Cooley.

The other is Mike Anderson, but they suck.

[Herman Cain]

 Butler at Nova should be a fun game . Both have little winning streaks going . So should be a classic Big East rock fight .

[withoutbias]

Sigh.  Our coach has coached in a Final Four, at the University of Texas, and now at Marquette.  This isn't some up and coming young guy that has to cut his teeth in the industry to get respect from officials.  He (and Marquette) gets plenty of respect.  Refs don't hate us.  We got jobbed in one game at Providence.  Sometimes that happens on the road over the course of a season.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Sigh.  Our coach has coached in a Final Four, at the University of Texas, and now at Marquette.  This isn't some up and coming young guy that has to cut his teeth in the industry to get respect from officials.  He (and Marquette) gets plenty of respect.  Refs don't hate us.  We got jobbed in one game at Providence.  Sometimes that happens on the road over the course of a season.

It's actually a little more than one game. We are dead last in FTR in conference play at 24.3. That's after a recent three game streak (NOVA, BUT, @UCONN) of getting a lot of calls. Before that we were hovering close to 20 with the second worse team sitting at 25.2 (the third worst team is at 26 before there is group of five teams within a point of each other 28.2-29.2). Meanwhile, our season FTR is 26.9, meaning that in non-conference play we had a FTR significantly higher than 26.9.

Now that doesn't mean that Shaka is getting screwed because he hasn't won a coach of the year award. I don't buy that personally (though it likely wouldn't hurt). I think a more likely culprit is that Big East officials call things differently than other conferences and Shaka either hasn't been able to or has decided not to adjust to it. Theoretically, this should give us an advantage in March.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

This is why I really want Shaka to win BECOY this year. The refs seem to give extra leash to coaches that have that award. Two of the last three winners are McDermott and Cooley.

The other is Mike Anderson, but they suck.

I was curious about this. This is a really rudimentary analysis but I subtracted defensive FTR (how many fouls you get called for) from offensive FTR (how many fouls your opponent gets called for) to see who has had the biggest advantage at the line in conference play:

Georgetown 8.9 (maybe not even FTR matta!)
Creighton 8.7
Providence 7.7
Seton Hall 5.9
Butler 4.7
Xavier 1.9
Villanova 1.2
Marquette -7.3
St. John's -8.1
UConn -10.7
DePaul -13.5

So...in the Big East this year, FTs are either a positive for you or they are a huge negative.

Maybe Brew is on to something, of the 7 teams in the positive you have 7 guys with lengthy Big East histories, several of them dating back to their playing days. The four deep negatives are all guys who are new to the Big East in the past few years....and Dan Hurley who probably deserves it