2025-26 Big East Thread

[nyg]

Nova's roster construction by Willard looks really good.

Out of the eight players in rotation:

Six portal players
One top 50 recruit
One international player from Belgium, big guy inside

See how it goes in BE play, but they look a lot better than past few. 

[MuggsyB]

Whew.  My strategy worked!  Nova shoukd have won by 10-15 in regulation. 

[MuggsyB]

Is there an explanation why Nova is 19 times better than us defensively?  I was just curious. 

[HutchwasClutch]

Nova's roster construction by Willard looks really good.

Out of the eight players in rotation:

Six portal players
One top 50 recruit
One international player from Belgium, big guy inside

See how it goes in BE play, but they look a lot better than past few. 

Huh.  How about that. 

[GoldenEagles03]

Huh.  How about that. 

Belgium, Big guy inside was a recruit of ours.

[MUDPT]

Is there an explanation why Nova is 19 times better than us defensively?  I was just curious. 

Didn't see one high hedge by either team. Mostly drop coverage and tagging.

[MuggsyB]

Didn't see one high hedge by either team. Mostly drop coverage and tagging.

Ty.

It's not like Nova was lights out from 3 either. 

[Johnny B]

St. John's blows.. bubble team

[MuggsyB]

St. John's blows.. bubble team

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Yep.  Looks like we need to beat UCONN twice and win the BEast tournament. 

[HutchwasClutch]

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Yep.  Looks like we need to beat UCONN twice and win the BEast tournament. 

No problem for us.

[Billy Hoyle]

Being anything more three bid league looks like a pipe dream right now and even three may be a stretch

[willie warrior]

Nova's roster construction by Willard looks really good.

Out of the eight players in rotation:

Six portal players
One top 50 recruit
One international player from Belgium, big guy inside

See how it goes in BE play, but they look a lot better than past few. 

RGV baby.

[BCHoopster]

Seth Trimble, another mistake by Shaka, senior who can play a tad would easily start for MU, Shaka was to stubborn

[MU82]

St. John's blows.. bubble team

Nah. They'll have a real good Big East record and will easily make the field. But yeah, the conference is not good.

As an aside, the 3-man booth with Raftery and Pearl next to Nessler is pretty bad. Raf lost his fastball years ago, and now he's only all about trying to squeeze in his dopey catchphrases, and Pearl didn't know when to jump in with anything meaningful.

[GoldenEagles03]

Seth Trimble, another mistake by Shaka, senior who can play a tad would easily start for MU, Shaka was to stubborn

Ehh.

If we start taking transfers I hope we aim higher than Seth Trimble. We have players like him or players that can play like him. We need the portal to add something we don't have. We need a real power level center. We need a shooter. Not more of the same.

[MU82]

Shaka was to stubborn

Shaka was to stubborn as BCHoopster was to misspelling.

[willie warrior]

Ehh.

If we start taking transfers I hope we aim higher than Seth Trimble. We have players like him or players that can play like him. We need the portal to add something we don't have. We need a real power level center. We need a shooter. Not more of the same.

We need a lot.

[BCHoopster]

We need a lot.

Trimble would start this year

[GoldenEagles03]

Trimble would start this year

But we'd still suck.

We need Big men in the front court.

[MuggsyB]

Nah. They'll have a real good Big East record and will easily make the field. But yeah, the conference is not good.

As an aside, the 3-man booth with Raftery and Pearl next to Nessler is pretty bad. Raf lost his fastball years ago, and now he's only all about trying to squeeze in his dopey catchphrases, and Pearl didn't know when to jump in with anything meaningful.

A really good BEast record this year doesn't necessarily mean they'll easily make the field.  They're 7-4 and haven't beaten anyone. 

[Jay Bee]

Seth Trimble, another mistake by Shaka, senior who can play a tad would easily start for MU, Shaka was to stubborn

Trimble shoots like you spell. Both are awful.

[MU82]

A really good BEast record this year doesn't necessarily mean they'll easily make the field.  They're 7-4 and haven't beaten anyone. 

Maybe. I bet they'll make it pretty easily, but I guess we'll see.

[BCHoopster]

Trimble shoots like you spell. Both are awful.
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I agree he is not a good shooter, but it's not like Jones or Nigel can shoot either. Trimble would be older and lets  be honest the senior class on shooting is bleak.

[Billy Hoyle]

Thad Matta isn't happy even after his team won a neutral-site game against a P4 team (their third this season). Hasn't he learned from Shaka that what matters is if the guys are good friends?

https://x.com/ButlerBBHQ/status/2002526537099378848

[Johnny B]

Georgetown loses at home to Xavier.. lol