(6) Saturday Big East Games 12/03/2016

[Demon22]

Yeah, so DePaul down by 30 against Northwestern with 5:00 to go in the first half.

[milksteak]

Xavier's bigs are AWFUL

I would imagine anyone with a lick of basketball knowledge on this board expected bigs to be Xavier's weakness this year.

That said, you guys lost on the road to a really, really great team. Baylor is a Top 5 team, and I will pissed if they don't land there next week (hell, they probably should've been there THIS week).

Xavier is the second-best team in this league until Creighton (or maybe my Dawgs?) prove otherwise.

[marquette]

DePaul had better not suddenly start winning games come league play. This is some of the worst basketball I've ever seen.

[milksteak]

DePaul had better not suddenly start winning games come league play. This is some of the worst basketball I've ever seen.

Northwestern has a nice team, but this is absolutely humiliating.

[gtmoBlue]

So a 3-2 day should CU win tonite.

What's the consensus?
Villanova moves to #1.
Kentucky falls to 5
Virginia falls to 10
Baylor to 7
X falls out of Top 10...to 14
Creighton Drops to 11

Projected Ranking
1 Nova
2 Kansas
3 Duke
4 UCLA
5 UK
6 Indiana
7 Baylor
8 Zags
9 UNC
10 Virginia

11 Crei
12 St Mary's
13 Louisville
14 Xavier
15 Butler
...and so forth.

[milksteak]

So a 3-2 day should CU win tonite.

What's the consensus?
Villanova moves to #1.
Kentucky falls to 5
Virginia falls to 10
Baylor to 7
X falls out of Top 10...to 14
Creighton Drops to 11

Projected Ranking
1 Nova
2 Kansas
3 Duke
4 UCLA
5 UK
6 Indiana
7 Baylor
8 Zags
9 UNC
10 Virginia

11 Crei
12 St Mary's
13 Louisville
14 Xavier
15 Butler
...and so forth.

I'd be very surprised if Xavier drops more than four or five spots. People need to recognize Baylor for what it is...a really f*cking good team.

[stever20]

the problem for Xavier is going to be around them....
Gonzaga just beat Arizona....
Creighton didn't lose this week
UCLA just beat Kentucky
St Mary's beat Stanford
Indiana beat UNC
Louisville beat Purdue

only teams above Xavier that lost this week so far- #1 Kentucky(X won't be ahead of), UNC to Indiana(X won't be ahead of), and Virginia(to West Virginia).

So it's actually pretty easy to see Xavier falling down to at least 12 or 13.

[gtmoBlue]

So if that's the case...
11 Louisville
12 Xavier

Creighton & St Marys fall three spots while winning.
13 Creighton
14 St Marys

A rough week for CU & SMC.

[stever20]

So if that's the case...
11 Louisville
12 Xavier

Creighton & St Marys fall three spots while winning.
13 Creighton
14 St Marys

A rough week for CU & SMC.

I doubt Creighton would fall behind Xavier. I mean, Creighton was 10 and they didn't lose, while Xavier did. St Mary's may remain behind Xavier. So I'm thinking like 13 for Xavier.

[JohnW22]

Xavier's bigs are AWFUL

I would imagine anyone with a lick of basketball knowledge on this board expected bigs to be Xavier's weakness this year.

That said, you guys lost on the road to a really, really great team. Baylor is a Top 5 team, and I will pissed if they don't land there next week (hell, they probably should've been there THIS week).

Xavier is the second-best team in this league until Creighton (or maybe my Dawgs?) prove otherwise.

I think we really have to see how good of shape and how Myles comes into this team before we guess where Xavier ends up in the Big East. I'd hope he's been staying in good shape but who knows. Right now with the current roster I'd say Xavier is 4th in the Big East but gotta wait for Myles who people forget was Xavier's 3rd leading scorer his Sophmore and Junior year.