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Patrick Ewing, along with Qudus Wahab and Brandon Murray, visited Madison Square Garden today for the 2022-23 BIG EAST Media Day. Overall, Ewing mostly said what was expected in terms of a 10th-ranked team coming off a rough year.
Patrick Ewing on how @GeorgetownHoops will turn the program around. (@MarchMadnessMBB @CoachEwing33 @BIGEASTMBB): pic.twitter.com/KGvvJbNzX1
— Andy Katz (@TheAndyKatz) October 18, 2022
Expected quotes from Pat about improving the talent, being a work in progress, having a lot of work to do, trying to gel, and more were supplemented with a pleasant note that he and the staff were sharing the blame for last season. Onward and upward.
Ewing says he has to take some of the responsibility for last year. Says both players and coaches have to take some blame.
— Bobby Bancroft (@BobbyBancroft) October 18, 2022
This seems like a positive development.
Here is the YouTube video of BIG EAST Shootaround, with Ewing’s portion starting at about 2:01.02
Here are the links:
Too clean pic.twitter.com/FP9mqHBWjo
— Thompson’s Towel (@ThompsonsTowel) October 18, 2022
Question: Does it feel like the season should already be here considering all the work you guys have done over the summer and so far this fall?
— Thompson’s Towel (@ThompsonsTowel) October 18, 2022
Ewing: “They {the players} might think that but I’m not ready. We still have a lot of work to do.”
Murray: “It was a longggg summer.”
"His effort has been over the top for us"
— UCTV Sports (@UCTVSports) October 18, 2022
Georgetown Head Coach Patrick Ewing comments on the initial impact former UConn forward Akok Akok has made on the program pic.twitter.com/RNts0V3LnQ
The quote of the day.
— Matt St. Jean (@mattstdream) October 18, 2022
When asked how he felt about Marquette being picked to finish 9th in the Big East, Tyler Kolek only had two words:
"F--- 'em."
Hurley on UConn being picked fourth in the Big East pic.twitter.com/KtUkeGuY72
— Gavin Keefe (@GavinKeefe) October 18, 2022
“Xavier’s believed in me really two different times, right?” Miller told reporters on Tuesday morning during Big East Conference Media Day at Madison Square Garden. “Number one, gave me my first head coaching opportunity when my record was zero and zero. You always need that first person to believe in you. And then secondly, I have now had the opportunity for them to believe in who I am.
“And at a critical time for Xavier. We haven’t been to the (NCAA) tournament in four years and we’re in arguably the best conference in the country, certainly one of them, so it’s a tall order and their belief in me makes me feel even better, if that was possible, about being back at Xavier living in Cincinnati ... I’m grateful to be back.”
Cooley and McDermott were described as the elder statesmen of the Big East for their time at their schools.
— Bobby Bancroft (@BobbyBancroft) October 18, 2022
Discussion at 1:54 and Ewing at 1:56:33 with Rob Dauster and Terrence Oglesby for The Field Of 68.
Georgetown’s Primo Spears (Windsor High School) has been impressing Coach Patrick Ewing as a transfer coming in. “I love what he’s done. He’s been playing extremely well. He can do a lot of different things.”
— Evan Rodriguez (@EvanRodriguezCT) October 18, 2022
Patrick Ewing: “We’re still a work in progress. These kids have been working very hard to make sure when the bright lights come on, they’ll be at their best. I’m looking forward to the season starting and at the end of the day, we’re looking forward to having a great year.”
— Thompson’s Towel (@ThompsonsTowel) October 18, 2022
Which programs schedule the toughest ? @KUHoops @AlabamaMBB @UNC_Basketball @GatorsMBK @Vol_Hoops @KentuckyMBB @XavierMBB @NovaMBB pic.twitter.com/JUsg1SyahM
— JG Trends (@jgtrends) October 18, 2022
“I don’t think the Big East will stay at 11 forever,” Ackerman told The Athletic during the league’s media day at Madison Square Garden. “I can’t quantify when, but there’s too much going on around us. Maybe it’s proactive, or it could be reactive expansion. You’d rather be proactive, but maybe other things helping elsewhere and certain opportunities are presented to us that we didn’t see and then we act on those. Either way, it’s fine” ...
But the league is in a unique position to be choosy. Now in its 10th year since its reconfiguration, one made necessary by the last major wave of realignment, the Big East is no longer susceptible to being picked apart. It has no football — save UConn — to steal, and thereby can seek teams rather than fend off the power conferences. Ackerman said the league will consider a number of factors if and when it chooses to expand.
Ackerman said that if the Big East were ever to expand, the most ideal time would coincide with the league's new media rights deal, which will begin on July 1, 2025. "We're keeping our eye on what's happening elsewhere, because we're kind of on the sidelines right now ... " (2/x)
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) October 18, 2022
Ackerman mentions both the idea of summer basketball games and NCAA tournament expansion when talking about the future of college basketball.
— Amanda Christovich (@achristovichh) October 18, 2022
While football is a "force," she says, "basketball is actually the connective tissue that binds all schools."
BIG EAST Conference Commissioner Val Ackerman sends thoughts and prayers to Dikembe Mutombo and his family. #Hoyas | #BEmediaday pic.twitter.com/PEOy9SHrfJ
— Patrick Waring (@WaringPatrick) October 18, 2022
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