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Congrats GT, but damn we are starting to beat each other a bit too much. Only fun when other teams lose to the "bottom" teams. Butler needs to turn it around and start losing close games again!

kmacker69 wrote:Congrats GT, but damn we are starting to beat each other a bit too much. Only fun when other teams lose to the "bottom" teams. Butler needs to turn it around and start losing close games again!

I mean, they're already doing a pretty good job of that the last 3 games, so not sure we need a turn around to keep that up.

Come on man at least let me fix that with out quoting it... You know I meant not losing close games! I guess my posting was about as good as we played tonight...

kmacker69 wrote:Come on man at least let me fix that with out quoting it... You know I meant not losing close games! I guess my posting was about as good as we played tonight...

lol, no worries, all in good fun.

The Hoyas are finally closing games. Look out Xavier we are gonna bring it

DeadHeadHoya wrote:The Hoyas are finally closing games. Look out Xavier we are gonna bring it

I assure you I am deathly worried about our return game with the Hoyas.

Jet915 wrote:All of the sudden, no one wants to be last in the Big East....

Kind of getting back to what was discussed in another thread recently; short term, it may not be good that the bottom teams are getting wins and hurting the tournament chances of other BE teams, but long term, its good for the conference that St. John's, Georgetown, and maybe even DePaul are showing signs of a turnaround. And hopefully in the case of Georgetown, maybe it will be a relatively quick turnaround. I don't want to jinx Georgetown, but could Ewing's first year be considered relatively successful already? Imagine if the Hoyas have a good BET.

Toronto Rapture wrote:

Jet915 wrote:All of the sudden, no one wants to be last in the Big East....

Kind of getting back to what was discussed in another thread recently; short term, it may not be good that the bottom teams are getting wins and hurting the tournament chances of other BE teams, but long term, its good for the conference that St. John's, Georgetown, and maybe even DePaul are showing signs of a turnaround. And hopefully in the case of Georgetown, maybe it will be a relatively quick turnaround. I don't want to jinx Georgetown, but could Ewing's first year be considered relatively successful already? Imagine if the Hoyas have a good BET.

It's funny, but Georgetown goes 3-1 rest of the way playing Xavier, Providence, Marquette, and Nova- they're 18-11 with a sub 100 RPI. Get a win in the BET and you could really make the case they deserve an NIT bid.

The win tonight for Georgetown means looking at RPI Forecast they worst case have a 150 RPI this year which would be tier 3 home games for opponents. If they can win 1 more game, they would have worst case a 130 RPI which would be tier 2 road games for everyone.

Crazy to think if the hoyas could close games better and held on to the games against Cuse, Butler @ home, Depaul, Providence, Xavier hoyas would be 20-5 and RPI 47. 2-2 after that would easily have them a lock for the tournament. Hoyas are not that far away and that's with middling point guard play. Assuming everyone comes back and Mac or a serviceable grad transfer can run the point better than our PG by committee this year Hoyas should be back in the tournament next year.

I saw the Hoyas game last night. Felt good to see them take this one. I like how they are playing. I'm sure Ewing is pleased with the growth.

The league is a BEAST every night. If you are not on your top game you will lose!

In regards to Butler, I still think they'll be in at the end of the day. Big East should have no problem getting six teams in.

Upsets are good! Upsets drive fans to the games! Let things play out as they should. Bids shouldn't be the focus of conference play, that talk is only for November till late December (OOC)