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[X-band '01]

Creighton should pretend today never happened.

[paulxu]

Good on ya Nova.

[bleedXblue]

Have to put Nova in there somewhere….top 3/4? Or next group with X and the rest?

Yes they slide in at 3 or 4.

Creighton result really surprised me but I think they will be fine.

Top spot will be a battle b/w Marq and Uconn.

Right now this is where the league is IMHO:

1. UCONN
2. Marq
3. Nova
4. Creighton
5. Prov
6. X
7. St Johns
8. Butler
9. Seton Hall
10. Georgetown
11. DePaul

[UCGRAD4X]

Nova held Memphis to 16 in the 1st 1/2.

[Xville]

Yes they slide in at 3 or 4.

Creighton result really surprised me but I think they will be fine.

Top spot will be a battle b/w Marq and Uconn.

Right now this is where the league is IMHO:

1. UCONN
2. Marq
3. Nova
4. Creighton
5. Prov
6. X
7. St Johns
8. Butler
9. Seton Hall
10. Georgetown
11. DePaul

I don’t think you are giving x enough credit. I think creighton is overrated by a lot of the national pundits imo. Lose Kaluma and nembhard and somehow the national people think they will be as good or better than last year? Makes zero sense. Colorado st is a really good team btw. I’d go:

1. UConn
2. Marquette
3. Nova
4. X
5. Creighton
6. Providence
7. Butler
8. St. John’s
9. Hall
10. Gtown
11. DePaul

[bleedXblue]

I don’t think you are giving x enough credit. I think creighton is overrated by a lot of the national pundits imo. Lose Kaluma and nembhard and somehow the national people think they will be as good or better than last year? Makes zero sense. Colorado st is a really good team btw. I’d go:

1. UConn
2. Marquette
3. Nova
4. X
5. Creighton
6. Providence
7. Butler
8. St. John’s
9. Hall
10. Gtown
11. DePaul

I understand some on Creighton but they also got a few solid transfers and 3 really good returning starters. They will be Top 5 in the league without any question IMHO.

Prov and X are very close right now. Our front court has HUGE question marks. Shooting, FT's and rebounding are not where they need to be. Stay solid on D and get some improvements in those areas and maybe we sneak into the 4 or 5 spot.

[Masterofreality]

DePaul is abjectly horrible again.
Stubblefield has zero idea about roster construction. None of those parts fit together.
Another dismal season there in the offing.

[IM4X]

Found it a bit strange that Lunardi - in his most recent NCAA Bracket (updated 11/28) - has X making it as one of the “last four in?“

Did he not see we lost to two teams not included in his most recent bracket?

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/st...ld-predictions

[X-band '01]

So, does Villanova have to vacate its Battle 4 Atlantis title if they play Drexel for 5th place in the Big 5?

We have a blowout in progress in the Holy War. In the wrong direction.

[MHettel]

This year could be over for us well before March. The BE collectively has underperformed in the out of conference schedule. DePaul, GT and Butler are horrible. Prov, SJU and SHU look average. XU and Nova have disappointed. UConn, Marquette and Creighton look really tough. Way too much separation at the top. Very few chances to get quality wins this year vs last year especially.

I hope a quality 4th and 5th place team emerges this year. Those top 3 teams will play 6 times against each other. I can see a scenario where the 3 of them finish with 10 or less conference losses combined. Finishing 5th in the BE could be the same as finishing 2nd in a one bid league.

We need to win every home game not against the top 3 teams (7 wins), then 3 on the road against those same teams. Then we need to steal 2 of 6 against the top teams. That’s 12-8. That probably gets us in as a double digit seed. One more loss and it’s bubble city. .500 in the Big East this year won’t cut it.