MackNova wrote:GumbyDamnit! wrote:FriarJ wrote:Absolute best thing about this year is watching nova fans lose their mind
Losing our minds about what? We're in 2nd place and have 2 games left vs the first place team. And not to sound too douchey but the Nova fan base is most concerned with getting our team in tip top shape for the tournament.
If you guys win the regular season, good for you. Would it be PC's first (again not trying to sound too douchey)? You should celebrate that. In 2018 the X fans were quick to puff out their chests and we all know what happened to both teams in the postseason. You think many people outside of Cincy remember that team won the BE regular season. Last point, if PC wins the reg season and wins the BET at MSG it will be nice--for the first time in a decade--that maybe the expectations to make a SW16, E8 or FF will be on a BE program not named Villanova.
Eh, I'd like to win the Big East regular season title. Villanova has won either the regular season or tournament titles every year. Not ready to give that up yet, and it's frustrating that the 6th-best team in the league in KenPom is favored to win it in part because it lost 3 games in which it would be projected to go 1-2.
Not really losing my mind over it. Hopefully, Villanova sweeps Providence and finds a way to get it done. I'm more concerned about getting a top-3 seed ideally than the Big East regular season title, but it would be nice to have both.
Certainly would like to win every trophy we can; not trying to say that it is not important to strive for that. But if given the choice of going all out to win the BE regular season championship, or getting ready for a March tourney run, give me the latter. It's not unlike 2018 when Booth, DD and Paschall were all hurting. Jay sat them and we dropped a couple games as a result. X hung a banner, and 4 weeks later we did the same.
Now Gillepsie, Moore (and BA) are all hurting. If we lose the Johnnies or to PC on Saturday with those 2 on the bench getting fully healthy for the BET and NCAA tourneys, I'm 100% good with that.