ESPN Discusses the Big East Schedule
by Hire Esherick on Aug 26, 2010 9:45 AM EDT
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PrintGood stuff from Andy Katz on this year's Big East schedule. He discusses the five tiers that the coaches poll were broken into and who has the toughest/easiest schedule.
The Tiers:
Tier 1: Pitt and Villanova
Tier 2: Syracuse, West Virginia, Georgetown.
Tier 3: Louisville, St. John's, Notre Dame, Connecticut.
Tier 4: Marquette, Cincinnati, Seton Hall.
Tier 5: South Florida, Providence, Rutgers, DePaul.
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Georgetown has home/home against Syracuse (Tier 2), St. John's (Tier 3) and Cincinnati (Tier 4) but as Rick Pitino states in the article, both St. John's and Cincinnati are sleepers in the league.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino admitted he gave the Red Storm and new coach Steve Lavin a first-place vote May 14.
"I was debating between St. John's, Pittsburgh, Villanova and Cincinnati, but I didn't want to put that on Mick [Cronin, Pitino's former assistant] so I went with St. John's."
Pitino told ESPN.com Wednesday that he was sticking with St. John's, saying in a text: "Nine seniors. Everyone but Pitt and Villanova lost key players."
Georgetown actually has a very good home schedule, playing three of the top five teams in the conference at Verizon.
Speaking of Verizon, commissioner Dave Gavitt admits that the Verizon Center is one of the venues delaying the release of the full Big East schedule, which is normally out by now. A delay in the release of professional sports' schedules (possibly due to the LeBron Decision Debacle) is delaying everything, including announcement of the Jonas Brothers concert in DC!!!
In another random tidbit, as Thompson the Third mentioned on the Andy Katz College Corner last week, Big East expansion is not over, and there was apparently a split among football and basketball-only schools over adding a 17th team. They seriously would have considered adding both Kansas and Kansas St., however, had the Big 12 dissolved.
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I For One
Would love to see an expanded Big East/SEC Invitational. I really enjoy watching the 2-3 games they play every year, and like the Duke game, it’s a nice non-conference tradition (assuming they renew that after Maui). Expanding it so that most teams got to participate every year would be nice.
CyberSalsaKing
gtown @ msu
especially since we are going after so many MS kids these days
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
by Hire Esherick on Aug 26, 2010 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Would love to play
UK, Tennessee, Florida, and Vandy.
The rest, well, not so much. But maybe we wouldn’t have to.
by Vee Sanford's Next-door Neighbor on Aug 26, 2010 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions
UK is Kentucky
Worst blogger ever.
CyberSalsaKing
by wadetandy on Aug 27, 2010 12:10 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
ha didn't even see that
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
by Hire Esherick on Aug 27, 2010 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Also a best case/worst case writeup for each team:
Not too bad…
GEORGETOWN
Best case: Big Man U built its reputation on the backs of All-American post players, and John Thompson III’s tenure has been no different … until 2010-11. After Greg Monroe’s departure to the NBA, Georgetown will be forced to adjust its style, featuring three top guards in Austin Freeman, Chris Wright and Jason Clark. How well the Hoyas adapt to that style — will Thompson let his team run, or will he continue to slow the game down? — will determine whether they finish in the Big East’s top three.
Worst case: Georgetown should remain competitive — those guards are just too good — but if the lack of a true big man is too much for the Hoyas to overcome, they could end up having a just-OK season. A middling Big East season and a No. 6 seed would accurately be considered a letdown.
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
Rockin the Red
St Johns and Louisville may have home court at Verizon this year since the entire low bowl was painted RED this week to support “rock the red” for the Caps.
No word yet if the seats are also changing to red.
Nothing like bring it home to the dear old blue and grey and red…
Section 101.
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Aug 26, 2010 1:35 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
that is horrific
the joys of being a gtown fan
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
by Hire Esherick on Aug 26, 2010 1:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks Ted!
I think that I will try to make the Wizards, the Capitals and the Mystics the primary tenants. We’ll schedule them first, and then we’ll build around them.
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
by Hire Esherick on Aug 26, 2010 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
another dc assault kid goes to rutgers
unbelievable.
"I committed to Rutgers because [associate head] Coach [David] Cox was recruiting me to Georgetown and he never gave up on me until today," Kone said by text. "He trusted in my game. It’s a good program with a good education. Rutgers is a good place for me to show people that I’m good and bring my team to the top of the Big East as a lead
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
cox didnt land a single recruit
when he was at gtown.
why did this fucking douche bag decide to start landing recruits when he went to rutgers?
I'm not actually Jeff Green's Dad
dc assault doesnt like gtown
and cox landed jordan goodman, who followed him to rutgers
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
by Hire Esherick on Aug 26, 2010 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
who the fuck cares they landed Malick Kone
He’s an unranked recruit big whoop. We could get a player of Kone’s quality right now if we wanted to, but we’re still trying to land real recruits. He’s not ranked by rivals or scout. Why is this a big deal. You guys would be furious if we signed a kid like this.
by hoyasincebirth on Aug 27, 2010 10:53 AM EDT reply actions
give me recruits, or give me death
— patrick henry
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
by Hire Esherick on Aug 27, 2010 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm pretty sure that was Patrick Ewing
CyberSalsaKing
by wadetandy on Aug 27, 2010 12:31 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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