NCAA Round 2 - Villanova (6) vs Purdue (3)

[ProprietyofLeyluken]

Regression to the mean for Edward's - please, at some point.

Leyluken says, The new big east has regressed to the mean.

[Django]

Why does it sound like a Purdue home game? Isn’t Philly closer than West Lafayette?

Do you really expect UConn fans to root for Villanova?

And there are people who want them back? If they are that petty and delusional that they think they will be invited to the Big Ten.

[herodotus]

Barring a miracle comeback, I guess I'll be rooting for Gonzaga from here on out, as well as following DePaul, Xavier, and CU.

[redmen9194]

With Nova about to bow out, you can hear the nay sayers. Told you the Big East was no good - they haven't even won a national championship in the last 12 months.

[admin]

This is Purdue at it's best and Nova at it's worst. Damn.

[herodotus]

With Nova about to bow out, you can hear the nay sayers. Told you the Big East was no good - they haven't even won a national championship in the last 12 months.

To have your flagship sunk like it's a dinghy isn't a good look though. Would feel a lot worse without those two titles though.

[ecasadoSBU]

my god... I can't watch anymore.

What a terrible weekend for the Big East/Northeast. I cringe at the thought of this becoming the new normal for Northeast basketball. Not a single representative by tomorrow. I have no reason to watch

[MUPanther]

Either Villanova wins the national title or gets beat in the 2nd round.

[jfan]

No sugarcoating this, even our two best teams were not top 25 this year. We didn't have any bad teams, we just didn't have any really good teams. Except for Michigan, the Big10 was pretty bad last year. This will pass and the league will be back with a vengeance next year!

[kayako]

Jay dug his own grave letting Booth play hero ball all season and not developing any of what was billed as a top 10 recruiting class. You may counter with Bey, but he's exactly same player now as he was in November. The weak Big East masked most of the problems all season, as I doubt we win even 9 games in the big ten.