OOC Performance. How will it effect Selection Sunday?

[Jet915]

Im thinking 4, Creighton, UConn, X and 1 other team who does well during Big East play.

[ecasadoSBU]

is this the worst year since realignment?

The only team that looks real good are CREIGHTON and UCONN so far.

[Jet915]

is this the worst year since realignment?

The only team that looks real good are CREIGHTON and UCONN so far.

If i remember correctly 2013 wasnt a great year, we got 4 in? I think we get 4 in this year but Creighton and UConn appear to be legit.

[stever20]

is this the worst year since realignment?

The only team that looks real good are CREIGHTON and UCONN so far.

If i remember correctly 2013 wasnt a great year, we got 4 in? I think we get 4 in this year but Creighton and UConn appear to be legit.

Yeah 2013-14 season wasn't great, got 4 in due to Providence winning the BET.

I think this might be a case where the 20 game conference season HELPS the league out. 4th place team will go something like 13-7 hopefully which combined with a decent OOC should get them in.

[Xuperman]

I just had a medical procedure and that afforded me the opportunity to marinade in BE basketball for 4 days! Observations-

It's gonna be either UConn/CU at the top. It's even money they finish 1-2 IMO.

Nova will probably need to beat the above 3 of 4 or win a BEast Championship to dance. The best they can finish is 6-5 OOC (no good wins, some bad losses), so 14 in conference wins would seem to be the minimum.

SJU is for real. Soriano has put it all together to become a force along side Posh and Jones. Curbelo is a stud facilitator! These guys could easily snag a BE 3 seed.

SHU stinks. I mean shockingly so. What a ragged bunch of average players....they're not contending for anything this year.

PC seems to be a more polished version of SHU. They have not impressed at all, but remains a dangerous spoiler.

Marquette is intriguing and fun to watch. Kinda a poor mans Johnnies. Lack of any true post presence hurts in our league, but they make up for it with grit and effort.

Butler and DePaul have some nice pieces, but I don't see either snagging more than 8 wins.

G-Town......a rotting corpse who's stench will poison anything it attaches to.

[Jet915]

I just had a medical procedure and that afforded me the opportunity to marinade in BE basketball for 4 days! Observations-

It's gonna be either UConn/CU at the top. It's even money they finish 1-2 IMO.

Nova will probably need to beat the above 3 of 4 or win a BEast Championship to dance. The best they can finish is 6-5 OOC (no good wins, some bad losses), so 14 in conference wins would seem to be the minimum.

SJU is for real. Soriano has put it all together to become a force along side Posh and Jones. Curbelo is a stud facilitator! These guys could easily snag a BE 3 seed.

SHU stinks. I mean shockingly so. What a ragged bunch of average players....they're not contending for anything this year.

PC seems to be a more polished version of SHU. They have not impressed at all, but remains a dangerous spoiler.

Marquette is intriguing and fun to watch. Kinda a poor mans Johnnies. Lack of any true post presence hurts in our league, but they make up for it with grit and effort.

Butler and DePaul have some nice pieces, but I don't see either snagging more than 8 wins.

G-Town......a rotting corpse who's stench will poison anything it attaches to.

I agree with all of this except SJU. I've watched a few of their games, they are chaos. I guess that's how they play but they haven't played anyone good yet and their OOC stinks. They need to win @Iowa State before I think they are legit which won't be easy. They will probably be top 5 Big East though but doesn't guarantee a bid this year.

[kayako]

You guys really overestimate what it takes to make the tourney. A couple of teams not looking great atm will manage to get things going and make the tourney. I mean, 7 teams can't suck simultaneously when we're playing against each other. But we need a few big wins and salvage advanced metrics for the conference. Need a nice set of results vs. Big 12.

[Husky_U]

Aren't y'all sooooooooo happy we're back now ???

[stever20]

You guys really overestimate what it takes to make the tourney. A couple of teams not looking great atm will manage to get things going and make the tourney. I mean, 7 teams can't suck simultaneously when we're playing against each other. But we need a few big wins and salvage advanced metrics for the conference. Need a nice set of results vs. Big 12.

The issue is going into the conference season already have if everyone wins out Nova with 5 losses, and 5 other teams with 3 losses. Gonna be tough for any of those 6 teams to get in at 10-10 for instance in conference play already. Marquette and Providence could easily join the 3 loss group. At some point, raw record means something.

[ArmyVet]

From ESPN:

Three teams with questions

Villanova Wildcats: There are certainly excuses to be made: first season post-Jay Wright, no Justin Moore, no Cameron Whitmore. But the Wildcats went 0-3 in Portland this past week, and they are now just 2-5 on the season. That represents the program's worst start since 1991-92, during Rollie Massimino's final year at the helm.