2011 Big East Tournament

• Leonardo

  

  Tuesday:
  Game 1: (9) Connecticut def. (16) DePaul, 97-71
  Game 2: (13) Rutgers def. (12) Seton Hall, 76-70 in OT
  Game 3: (15) South Florida def. (10) Villanova, 70-69
  Game 4: (11) Marquette def. (14) Providence, 87-66
  
  Wednesday:
  Game 5: (9) Connecticut def. (8) Georgetown, 79-62
  Game 6: (5) St. John's def. (13) Rutgers, 65-63
  Game 7: (7) Cincinnati def. (15) South Florida, 87-61
  Game 8: (11) Marquette def. (6) West Virginia, 67-61
  
  Thursday:
  Game 9: (9) Connecticut def. (1) Pittsburgh, 76-74
  Game 10: (4) Syracuse def. (5) St. John's, 79-73
  Game 11: (2) Notre Dame def. (7) Cincinnati, 89-51
  Game 12: (3) Louisville def. (11) Marquette, 81-56
  
  Friday:
  Game 13: (9) Connecticut def. (4) Syracuse, 76-71 in OT
  Game 14: (3) Louisville def. (2) Notre Dame, 83-77 in OT
  
  Saturday:
  Game 15: (9) Connecticut def. (3) Louisville, 69-66
• Azubuike24

  

  Gotta love the local NYC flavor with Rutgers/Seton Hall against St. John's and then possibly Syracuse/St. John's at MSG...
• wildcats20

  

  Big East tourny is my favorite behind the ACC.
  
  Almost always an instant classic comes from the Garden.
• sportswizuhrd

  Some have said that it might be harder to win the Big East Tournament than the actual NCAA Tournament. UCONN, 'Nova and Marquette could be playing in 5 games in 5 nights(2 of the 3 at max) and 6 games in 3 weekends in the Big Dance.
• dokken

  Is it standard for at least one Big East coach to get at least one technical per game? Every game I watch in the Big East, a coached is getting T'ed, some get tossed.
• athlete37

  

  I LOVE our draw. Cincy/Nova/USF winner and then injured LVille/WVU/Marquette/Providence winner (with WVU being on the third game in 3 days and MQ/PC on their 4th in 4). Win those two and we finally make our first BE Finals appearance.
• ytownfootball

  

  sportswizuhrd;700636 wrote:Some have said that it might be harder to win the Big East Tournament than the actual NCAA Tournament.

  They say that shit every year, then they typically get throttled in the first couple rounds.
• CinciX12

  

  ytownfootball;700672 wrote:They say that shit every year, then they typically get throttled in the first couple rounds.

  
  Typically or always. Either one.
• ytownfootball

  

  eh...always backs me in a corner
• Azubuike24

  

  Well, obviously 5 games in 5 days is incredibly tough. However, they seed teams for a reason and I highly doubt we ever see a team win 5 games in 5 days to win this league. Syracuse winning 4 games in 4 days to do it was crazy enough.
  
  However, for a good teams, who are capable of winning the NCAA Championship at-least, would arguably never have to win 5 in the Big East Tournament, maybe not even have to win 4 in the Big East Tournament, because their seed would be good enough. So no, for one of the top 4 seeds, the NCAA Tournament is hands-down tougher and that's tough to dispute for anyone.
• athlete37

  

  ytownfootball;700691 wrote:eh...always backs me in a corner

  
  That's what she said
• athlete37

  

  Azubuike24;700697 wrote:Well, obviously 5 games in 5 days is incredibly tough. However, they seed teams for a reason and I highly doubt we ever see a team win 5 games in 5 days to win this league. Syracuse winning 4 games in 4 days to do it was crazy enough.
  
  However, for a good teams, who are capable of winning the NCAA Championship at-least, would arguably never have to win 5 in the Big East Tournament, maybe not even have to win 4 in the Big East Tournament, because their seed would be good enough. So no, for one of the top 4 seeds, the NCAA Tournament is hands-down tougher and that's tough to dispute for anyone.

  
  agreed. depends on draw and seed. i could see it being more difficult for uconn to win the be tourney than the ncaa, but the same doesn't hold for notre dame or louisville
• CinciX12

  

  I think it all sets up pretty nicely for ND to not only make their first finals appearance, but win it all. And in the process give themselves a #1 seed.
• Azubuike24

  

  And at this point...you would have to say it's going to be extremely tough to UConn for win the Big East Tournament. At the same time, it's nearly an impossibility that UConn wins the NCAA Tournament.
• CinciX12

  

  Azubuike24;700706 wrote:And at this point...you would have to say it's going to be extremely tough to UConn for win the Big East Tournament. At the same time, it's nearly an impossibility that UConn wins the NCAA Tournament.

  
  I'd give them 90% odds to make it to Thursday. Depaul is a joke and Georgetown looked so horrendous today against UC you couldn't possibly argue them winning a game in this thing.
• Azubuike24

  

  5 wins for UConn in 5 days in the Big East Tournament = very, very slim odds of doing so
  6 wins for UConn in 6 days in the NCAA Tournament = very, very slim odds of doing so
• CinciX12

  

  It isn't exactly 6 straight days. Not really the same thing. I would actually say winning the Big East tourney is statistically impossible and the NCAA Tourney is more likely.
• Azubuike24

  

  No you're right. I'm really having trouble translating thoughts to the board tonight. 6 games in 3 weeks...still.
  
  It's like arguing whether it's tougher to win Powerball at 1 in 15,000,000 entries or the Mega Millions at 1 in 14,850,000 entries.
  
  The odds of both are incredibly slim that it's dumb for people to even compare the two when we are talking about Big East teams seeded 9th or lower.
• CinciX12

  

  Fair enough.
• killer_ewok

  

  Syracuse beat St. Johns by 17 at the Garden in January. I like that matchup if it happens.
• dave

  ytownfootball;700672 wrote:They say that shit every year, then they typically get throttled in the first couple rounds.

  
  when in the last 10 years other than syracuse has this happened?
• sleeper

  

  I'll take Pitt, everyone else can have the field. It'll be Pitt-OSU in the championship game, and I wouldn't put a dime on Pitt.
• sportswizuhrd

  dave;700737 wrote:when in the last 10 years other than syracuse has this happened?

  
  Thats what I wondered too so I looked.
  
  2010 8 teams (8-8) 2/5 Sweet 16(#1 Syracuse, #2 WVA)
  
  2009 7 teams (17-7) 5/5 Sweet 16(#1 Pitt, #1 UConn, #1 Louisville, #3 Syracuse, #3 Villanova)
  
  2008 8 teams (11-8) 3(1 of 4) Sweet 16(#3 Louisville, #7 WVA, #12 Villanova)
  
  2007 6 teams (7-6) 2/2 Sweet 16(#2 Georgetown, #3 Pitt)
  
  2006 8 teams (11-8) 4(2 of 2)Sweet 16(#1 UConn, #1 Villanova, #6 WVA, #7 Georgetown)
  
  2005 6 teams (7-6) 2(0 of 3) Sweet 16(#5 Villanova, #7 WVA)
  
  2004 6 teams (12-5) 3(2 of 2) Sweet 16(#2 UConn, #3 Pitt, #5 Syracuse)
  
  2003 4 teams(12-3) 4(2 of 2) Sweet 16(#2 Pitt, #3 Syracuse, #5 UConn and #5 Notre Dame)
  
  2002 6 teams(6-6) 2/2 Sweet 16(#2 UConn, #3 Pitt)
  
  2001 5 teams(5-5) 1(0 of 1) S16(#10 Georgetown)
  
  Total-64 bids, 28 Sweet 16's. 95 total wins. 2 titles. Teams that were seeded 1-4 made it to Sweet 16 18/28 times. 10 other teams seeded 9-16 made the sweet 16.
• athlete37

  

  To answer the odds question:
  http://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/conference-tournaments/big-east/
  
  UConn's 2.5 percent chance at the BE Championship has to be more than their chance to win the NCAA tourney, but it's probably about even.
• killer_ewok

  

  Syracuse's Rick Jackson won Big East Defensive Player of the Year. Awesome. Dude has come a long way since his Freshman year.
  
  Also, I took Pitt in the poll.