2025-26 Big East Thread

[MuggsyB]

DePaul won at Creighton. 

[muwarrior69]

Will the Big East return to winning basketball? I cannot remember a worse season for the league since MU joined. It is not just MU having to make adjustments this off season but a majority of the league.

[Newsdreams]

Will the Big East return to winning basketball? I cannot remember a worse season for the league since MU joined. It is not just MU having to make adjustments this off season but a majority of the league.

Big lEast

[MU82]

Doomed.

[DFW HOYA]

Will the Big East return to winning basketball? I cannot remember a worse season for the league since MU joined. It is not just MU having to make adjustments this off season but a majority of the league.

It's a function of two teams excelling at the top of the conference (a combined 31-4 in BE play) and because everything has to equal out, the record at the bottom reflects it. The non-confernce marks were's stellar but when two of those four losses above for SJ and UConn were to each other, the wins are coming from teams down below.

Case in point: the 2012-13 season--a national champion in Louisville, top 20 teams at Marquette, Georgetown, Syracuse and Pitt. Here were the bottom four teams on those standings:

Rutgers   5-13
Seton Hall 3-15
South Florida 3-15
DePaul 2-16

[muwarrior69]

It's a function of two teams excelling at the top of the conference (a combined 31-4 in BE play) and because everything has to equal out, the record at the bottom reflects it. The non-confernce marks were's stellar but when two of those four losses above for SJ and UConn were to each other, the wins are coming from teams down below.

Case in point: the 2012-13 season--a national champion in Louisville, top 20 teams at Marquette, Georgetown, Syracuse and Pitt. Here were the bottom four teams on those standings:

Rutgers 5-13
Seton Hall 3-15
South Florida 3-15
DePaul 2-16

...but the overall record of the bottom 7 teams with 2 exceptions are below .500 ball and the 2 exceptions are just one or 2 games above .500. That has nothing to do with St.John's or UCONN dominating the league. They all just played poorly this year.

[MUDPT]

...but the overall record of the bottom 7 teams with 2 exceptions are below .500 ball and the 2 exceptions are just one or 2 games above .500. That has nothing to do with St.John's or UCONN dominating the league. They all just played poorly this year.

Wut

[Billy Hoyle]

Wut

Basically, the entire conference outside of UConn, St. John's, and Villanova is mediocre, and there's very little separation in the quality of the 4th-place and 11th-place teams.

[Nukem2]

Basically, the entire conference outside of UConn, St. John's, and Villanova is mediocre, and there's very little separation in the quality of the 4th-place and 11th-place teams.

Nova isn't a whole lot better than those 8 teams either.

[wadesworld]

Basically, UConn and St. John's are good, Villanova is mediocre, and the entire rest of the conference is bad, and there's very little separation in the quality of the 4th-place and 11th-place teams.

FIFY.

[Tarragona]

Since Big East expansion, the league has largely been Villanova, UConn, and the Midwest 3. (MArquette, Creighton, Xavier). Thise 3 teams are down. St. John's is up.

[willie warrior]

Will the Big East return to winning basketball? I cannot remember a worse season for the league since MU joined. It is not just MU having to make adjustments this off season but a majority of the league.

Yet we are near the bottom of the league. Oh what a sorry state