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Fieldhouse Flyer wrote:Marquette needs to hold serve at home, while Seton Hall needs to steal a road win to help their cause. It should be an exciting night of Big East basketball.

Fieldhouse Flyer wrote:
RPI Forecast – Teams # 1 to # 351 . . . RPI Forecast - Big East Conference

Through games of Saturday January 7, 2017.

Overall - Expected RPI Rank – Team – Projected Regular-season W-L (Projected Conference W-L) - Projected OOC SOS Rank

2 - 4.6 - Villanova - 27-4 (14-4) - # 22
9 - 9.9 - Butler - 23-7 (12-6) - # 15
15 - 15.3 - Xavier - 23-8 (12-6) - # 20
16 - 15.7 - Creighton - 24-6 (12-6) - # 119

51 - 56.8 - Seton Hall - 19-11 (9-9) - # 201
60 - 65.9 - Marquette - 18-12 (9-9) - # 198
88 - 92.4 - Georgetown - 15-16 (6-12) - # 62
90 - 94.7 - Providence - 16-15 (6-12) - # 146

With Projected OOC SOS Rankings of # 200 or so, Seton Hall and Marquette will need to finish better than 9-9 in conference play to make the NCAA Tournament field.

IF Seton Hall finishes at 9-9, they WILL be in the tourney- with 19 wins. And frankly probably not even in the 1st 4.

What a game @ Milwaukee. The HALL refuses to lose. OT

Seton Hall's own poor play is the reason they even let this game get to OT so a deserved loss, but damn what a home job once there.

Oh man I can't wait for the numbers to come out to tell me Seton Halls tournament chances now and see what seed they will be in the NIT!

JohnW22 wrote:Oh man I can't wait for the numbers to come out to tell me Seton Halls tournament chances now and see what seed they will be in the NIT!

If they lose Saturday at Providence, that's exactly what you'll get. Pretty much a must win now.

Well that was just about the worst half from Butler I've seen in a very long time!

Wow, Creighton looks like they'll run away with this one. Hitting everything, Butler is as cold as can be. Hopefully the Jays can put a full game together, and keep this at least at a double digit win.

Thrilled that Marquette won (we needed that one badly), but the more and more I watch from this year's team (and even more so since Buzz left) we just don't seem to have a Big East roster. We are undersized, out-manned, lack toughness and seem to get out-hustled during most games. With only two traditional bigs in Fisher and Heldt, this was bound to be exploited this year, but Delgado just manhandled us in the paint. If he made his FTs tonight, SH wins easy.

How we won in OT minus Hauser and Fisher is beyond me. Good game Pirates! Hope we get a Round 3 in the BET!

GoldenWarrior11 wrote:Thrilled that Marquette won (we needed that one badly), but the more and more I watch from this year's team (and even more so since Buzz left) we just don't seem to have a Big East roster. We are undersized, out-manned, lack toughness and seem to get out-hustled during most games. With only two traditional bigs in Fisher and Heldt, this was bound to be exploited this year, but Delgado just manhandled us in the paint. If he made his FTs tonight, SH wins easy.

How we won in OT minus Hauser and Fisher is beyond me. Good game Pirates! Hope we get a Round 3 in the BET!

His free throws? That's about all Delgado did hit in regulation tonight, as terrible as he was in OT. Delgado was awful in the paint, hitting only 3-12 from the field. He should've been able to dominate OT with your bigs fouled out but was just off his game all night.

Jays kicked some butt tonight!