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So as it stands, with Villanova in the final four but no other Big East team making the Sweet 16, what are the prevailing thoughts on the conference's post-season performance? Was it a success? Or did it fall short of expectations?

without a doubt this year was a success. If Nova had lost in the elite 8, but Xavier had made the elite 8- that still wouldn't have topped what actually did happen. Elite 8's are great, but Final 4's are just that big. Like I think the Oregon coach told his team on Friday- he asked them who was in the elite 8 last year but lost. None of his players could answer.

Success by a longshot. Was expecting 2 sweet 16 and 1 elite eight....Final Four trumps that.

Success.

Ultimately, you are expected to play to your seed line. In that case, everyone did at least that except for Xavier and Seton Hall. But Seton Hall ran into a freight train and Xavier's slip up was more than compensated by Nova making the final four.

I can only see one answer to this: a total success.

As of today, we stand with a Big East team in the Final Four. We've yelped about the need for that since we came together to reform the Big East.

As of today, we stand at 7-5 in the Tournament, which means we aren't going to go south of .500 in it.

Xavier didn't hold up its end of the bargain relative to its seed line this year, but the overall performance, driven primarily by Nova was solid.

Xudash wrote:I can only see one answer to this: a total success.

As of today, we stand with a Big East team in the Final Four. We've yelped about the need for that since we came together to reform the Big East.

As of today, we stand at 7-5 in the Tournament, which means we aren't going to go south of .500 in it.

Xavier didn't hold up its end of the bargain relative to its seed line this year, but the overall performance, driven primarily by Nova was solid.

um, as of today we're 7-4 in the tourney.

DudeAnon wrote:Success.

Ultimately, you are expected to play to your seed line. In that case, everyone did at least that except for Xavier and Seton Hall. But Seton Hall ran into a freight train and Xavier's slip up was more than compensated by Nova making the final four.

Just to play contrarian a bit here... In terms of seed line:

Outperformed: Villanova (by one game)
In Line: Butler, Providence
Underperformed: Xavier, Seton Hall (both by one game)

Villanova outperformed by one game thus far (beating Kansas was huge, but the rest was expected).

The Vegas line for Big East wins was 7, so we have matched that right now (essentially making us in-line with expectations).

jckund wrote:

DudeAnon wrote:Success.

Ultimately, you are expected to play to your seed line. In that case, everyone did at least that except for Xavier and Seton Hall. But Seton Hall ran into a freight train and Xavier's slip up was more than compensated by Nova making the final four.

Just to play contrarian a bit here... In terms of seed line:

Outperformed: Villanova (by one game)
In Line: Butler, Providence
Underperformed: Xavier, Seton Hall (both by one game)

Villanova outperformed by one game thus far (beating Kansas was huge, but the rest was expected).

The Vegas line for Big East wins was 7, so we have matched that right now (essentially making us in-line with expectations).

Which I would deem a success...

DudeAnon wrote:

jckund wrote:

DudeAnon wrote:Success.

Ultimately, you are expected to play to your seed line. In that case, everyone did at least that except for Xavier and Seton Hall. But Seton Hall ran into a freight train and Xavier's slip up was more than compensated by Nova making the final four.

Just to play contrarian a bit here... In terms of seed line:

Outperformed: Villanova (by one game)
In Line: Butler, Providence
Underperformed: Xavier, Seton Hall (both by one game)

Villanova outperformed by one game thus far (beating Kansas was huge, but the rest was expected).

The Vegas line for Big East wins was 7, so we have matched that right now (essentially making us in-line with expectations).

Which I would deem a success...

Finishing in line with expectations is a success? In the purely hypothetical situation that Villanova loses to Okla (which I hope it doesn't). Maybe my expectations were just higher than others on here, I just think we had one amazing performance and that doesn't necessarily translate to a conference's outperformance as a whole.

On second thought, I guess it's an interesting question... 7 also translates to a situation in which Nova loses in the Elite 8 and Xavier makes the Sweet 16. I'm assuming people on here would prefer the current situation to this one (and I don't disagree).

jckund wrote:Finishing in line with expectations is a success? In the purely hypothetical situation that Villanova loses to Okla (which I hope it doesn't). Maybe my expectations were just higher than others on here, I just think we had one amazing performance and that doesn't necessarily translate to a conference's outperformance as a whole.

There are a lot of conferences that would've loved to of finished in line with expectations (PAC 12, SEC, BIG 10 and maybe even BIG 12).