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). These 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

[DFW HOYA]

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

But this may well be a one-off. Previous three MU seasons, 79-23.

Compare that to a school that is 34-74 in its previous three.

[mileskishnish72]

By tonight we'll be out of the BE cellar.

[rocky_warrior]

By tonight we'll be out of the BE cellar.

We'll "leap" above one last place team, and "sink" below another!

[muwarrior69]

But this may well be a one-off. Previous three MU seasons, 79-23.

Compare that to a school that is 34-74 in its previous three.

...or it could another bad season if significant changes are not made in the off season.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

I think we can beat UConn next weekend, assuming the team is healthy.

Very unlikely but possible.

[MuggsyB]

I think we can beat UConn next weekend, assuming the team is healthy.

Very unlikely but possible.

Absolutely doable!

[MuggsyB]

Questionable officiating to close this one in Storrs.

[MuggsyB]

Wow. Either let them play or call it close for 40 mins. 

[MuggsyB]

That was ridiculous. 

[wisblue]

Questionable officiating to close this one in Storrs.

It was pretty questionable for most of the game.

Exhibit A is 22 fouls for Seton Hall to 10 for UConn.

The bail out call that put Ball at the line in the last minute was a pivotal point in the game

[wisblue]

I think we can beat UConn next weekend, assuming the team is healthy.

Very unlikely but possible.

UConn will be rested and ready after having a bye this week and will be playing to win the conference title.

I wouldn't hold my breath for a close game. Even the 15 point advantage for having it be senior day might not be enough.

[Shooter McGavin]

I think we can beat UConn next weekend, assuming the team is healthy.

Very unlikely but possible.

I like the optimism VBMG.  Lots of things would need to go right for it to happen.  It would be a nice way for Chase and Ben to end there MU careers at home and they would have to have their best and most clutch games of the year to get it done.  Along with the now accustomed games from our other starters of course.