Villanova #1 on Monday?

[NovaBall]

Jay Drew also has Nova #1 and Xavier #2

[NovaBall]

Mark Berman has Nova 1 and Xavier 2

[NovaBall]

Matt Voutor has Nova 1 Xavier 2

[xusandy]

Sorry Redman, but this is the first Monday in February, which as anyone knows, means there's a one-day-only math special involved here, and 2 of 5 is indeed 83% for the rest of today. Thor clearly knows his math! (Hint: perhaps his tongue was planted firmly in cheek.)

[NovaBall]

In the gtown game they just said "for the first time in three years, a big east team is number one in the country"

Meaning for the first time since the league split up, the big east has a number one team.

Power conferences have teams ranked number one. It's what we do. For stever to downplay this and act like an elite 8 run is more significant is complete trolling on his part. And he knows it.

Huge day for the conference.

[stever20]

In the gtown game they just said "for the first time in three years, a big east team is number one in the country"

Meaning for the first time since the league split up, the big east has a number one team.

Power conferences have teams ranked number one. It's what we do. For stever to downplay this and act like an elite 8 run is more significant is complete trolling on his part. And he knows it.

Huge day for the conference.

More folks care about college basketball in March than they do in the regular season. I'm sorry that you can't seem to grasp that concept. Nova being #1 is great. I'd rather them not be #1 right now, but be in the elite 8 or final 4. THAT would mean WAY more to the conference.

Look at the NFL. About 99.99999999% of folks think that Denver had the best year this year, even though Carolina was 15-1 in the regular season while Denver was what 12-4? Regular season is great, but post season is where legacies are built and remembered forever. Joe Montana is remembered a lot better than Dan Marino even though Marino was the better regular season QB. Why? Because of the playoffs.

[adoraz]

Stever you're acting like it's one or the other... Elite 8 or a number one ranking. Seriously quit trolling.

Congrats to Nova and the Big East on this major accomplishment.

[stever20]

Stever you're acting like it's one or the other... Elite 8 or a number one ranking. Seriously quit trolling.

Congrats to Nova and the Big East on this major accomplishment.

Number one ranking is a good accomplishment. Solid.

Elite 8 or Final 4 is a GREAT accomplishment. Means WAY more in the long term interest of the conference. That's all I'm saying. Ball was the one that said that #1 ranking means more than elite 8. And that's just wrong.

[billyjack]

Look at that, 2 top 5 teams from the Big East.

I was no math major, but I believe that is 83% of the top 5. Woot.

You're not a math major and it's 40% of the top 5.

Not sure but I think he was using a recurring joke by Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother.

[NovaBall]

Oh, I grasp the concept that march matters.

I have seen my team play in the elite 8 multiple times. I have attended elite 8 games live. I know all about how gr8 a good tourney run is. Don't act like villanova fans don't understand the enjoyment and respect of a deep tourney run. Villanova has a dozen elite eights, the most in the big east (gtown has 9, marquette has 7, johnnies have 6), and 7 of nova's elite 8's were during my lifetime.

But you need regular season respect too. Power conferences have to have their teams considered the best In America during the regular season. We can't just have a bunch of 1997 providence style teams that make Cinderella runs to the elite 8. Cinderella runs are great, but if that's all we have we might as well just be the colonial conference with VCU and George mason.

I think you overestimate the value of a trip to the second weekend. You seem to treat it like it is a final four. Dayton was in the elite 8 in 2014. Outside of big time hoops fans, people have already forgotten. Villanova had a Cinderella run to the sweet 16 in 2008, I doubt more than 30% of these board could name the teams they beat, if they even remember that tourney run at all.

St. johns v georgetown regular season games as the top teams in the nation in 1985 are still more visible and respected and more valuable to their programs than mike Jarvis' run to the elite 8 fifteen years later.

Sorry you can't grasp that.



And before you post again, nobody is saying we don't need to win tourney games. We need both.