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Has Providence and Creighton as next four out....

Seems reasonable, but we likely know just about zero about next season. St. John's, Creighton, Providence, Marquette, Georgetown... all of them will see a ton of change next year with graduating seniors, transfers, moves to the NBA, and coaching changes (by the way, the carousel ride ain't over). I assume Butler in season 2 after Stevens will bounce back.

Lots of variables to sort out.

Not Big East related but Stony Brook never makes the tourney. They win the regular season every year and lose to a mediocre Albany team every year in the finals of their conference tourney. I think it's now 3-4 years in a row. Dumb pick.

And there is no sure thing in the Big East right now except Nova.

Creighton loses everyone from the best team they may ever have in their entire history.

Marquette had an awful season and lost their big time head coach

G'Town had a bad season (for them) even with lots of talent

Seton Hall loses key vets, and brings in good recruits but as with St. John's recruits are often overhyped

PC loses their scoring machine Cotton who seemed to get 30 a night easily…yes they return good players and have good recruits but still a huge loss

Butler is coming off a terrible season and no more Stevens…who knows with them?

DePaul will still find a way to be DePaul even with some great talent

Xavier loses Christon their stud NBA PG

SJ lost a ton and has only 1 2014 recruit who would be a walk-on for most major conference teams though he might be solid eventually



Outside of Nova, flip a coin.

GreatDaneAttorney wrote:Seems reasonable, but we likely know just about zero about next season. St. John's, Creighton, Providence, Marquette, Georgetown... all of them will see a ton of change next year with graduating seniors, transfers, moves to the NBA, and coaching changes (by the way, the carousel ride ain't over). I assume Butler in season 2 after Stevens will bounce back.

Lots of variables to sort out.

It is waaay early, but folks would be surprised how accurate this is. I think this year had something like 26/36 at large teams picked correctly from 1st bracketology done by Lunardi.

Creighton loses everyone from the best team they may ever have in their entire history.

Wrong on soooo many levels! My God, you sound like a Husker BBall fan.

Jays lose the greatest player they may ever have I will give you that. We and the college basketball world may never see another McBuckets again. But I don't think about that, all I think about is how gratefull I am that I got to witness it up close and personal.

But I think the Jays will have better teams in the near future.

Jays26 wrote:

Creighton loses everyone from the best team they may ever have in their entire history.

Wrong on soooo many levels! My God, you sound like a Husker BBall fan.

Jays lose the greatest player they may ever have I will give you that. We and the college basketball world may never see another McBuckets again. But I don't think about that, all I think about is how gratefull I am that I got to witness it up close and personal.

But I think the Jays will have better teams in the near future.

This. You don't think the Jays will ever have a top 25 team again? Come on man. Creighton is set up to have some serious future success.

ACC with 8 seems a little high (they got 6 in this year). I don't know how the Big 12 could possibly get 7 out of 10 schools in, but I guess they did it this season. B1G with 7 seems possible.

Another year of mediocre results? It's possible.

Vcu #5..........