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[Xavgrad08]

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.

Kyle Neptune might be the guy, but he might not be.

[Xville]

That st joes team must be pretty damn good. I know they have a bad l but they should have beat uk at rupp and handled nova easily

[Xville]

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.

Nova has disappointed? They lost to what I think is a good st joes team, and they just beat Texas tech, Memphis and unc. They’re fine.

Providence looks pretty good to me. They beat Wisconsin and only loss is to k state in ot.

It’s November.. let’s let the cake bake a bit

[JEHARDI]

Too early to be that negative. UNC pounding TN tonight. UVA making TX A&M look bad. Happens every night. SJU lost at KY in OT, they are a decent team.

[drudy23]

Georgetown - cmon man. Merrimack? Upset (I think) in the making.

[MHettel]

Too early to be that negative. UNC pounding TN tonight. UVA making TX A&M look bad. Happens every night. SJU lost at KY in OT, they are a decent team.

I’m not sure my comments are negative. I view them as realistic.

There are a lot of opportunities for bad losses this year in the Big East. So those become “must wins”.

And the good wins will be very hard to come by.

Just facts.

So our resume will just be a lot of ok and wins against the bad teams in a top heavy conference.

Of course the Houston and UC games still have to be played. If we will know those results soon enough.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Nova has disappointed? They lost to what I think is a good st joes team, and they just beat Texas tech, Memphis and unc. They’re fine.

Providence looks pretty good to me. They beat Wisconsin and only loss is to k state in ot.

It’s November.. let’s let the cake bake a bit

Agreed

[X-band '01]

Nova has disappointed? They lost to what I think is a good st joes team, and they just beat Texas tech, Memphis and unc. They’re fine.

Providence looks pretty good to me. They beat Wisconsin and only loss is to k state in ot.

It’s November.. let’s let the cake bake a bit

I looked it up - Saint Joe's had a loss at home to Texas A&M-Commerce. Another transitional team.

Georgetown - cmon man. Merrimack? Upset (I think) in the making.

Merrimack actually won the NEC last year, but couldn't go to the NCAAs because they finished their transition last year. Their loss was FDU's gain.

[MHettel]

Novas lost to Penn as well.

Bottom line is that Villanova NOW is not the same as Villanova from 3-4 years ago. Those teams dominated and won 2 NCs. This Nova team is decent...much the same way we are.

Bottom line is that the top 3 in the conference is pretty set. we need to be #1 or #2 in an 8 team conference at this point.

Maybe I underestimated Providence. Possibly SHU too. But the bad losses keep adding up for the BE.

[Xville]

Imo there is going to be a really solid middle that will allow x to win against good teams that will build the resume and I’m not saying x can’t beat UConn or Marquette at home. Anyways that middle includes nova, providence, creighton ( I don’t think they are at the level of UConn/marquette), hall, butler, maybe St. John’s. Now that group has different tiers to it, but just saying it’s a solid group. Right now, the be is the 2nd highest rated conference and will be sending around 6 teams to the dance. X will be one of them.