Goose85
03-06-2012, 12:06 PM
Big East tourney preview by CBS Sports. Make it sound like the Big East is done.
"Tuesday will bring the first tremor. It's the beginning of the end of the glory and pageantry and importance and identity of the Big East tournament, which is to say it is the termination of all of those things for the Big East Conference as well."
Really? Last year 11 teams, this year maybe up to 10 teams. Temple and Memphis will be in Big East and they are NCAA tourney bound this year and quite frankly, often. Lose Syracuse which hurts, but Temple and Memphis off set with tourney teams.
All this talk of the ACC - other than Duke and UNC (and in two years Syracuse), where are the other 7 or 8 teams going to the dance? I don't see it, but I still see it out of the Big East. The ACC is top loaded, but those top teams have some changes coming - Boeheim is 67, Coach K is 65 and Roy Williams is 61. Coaching changes are always crap shoots.
The Big East will still be a great hoops conference and come early March, The Big East will still have a big time tourney in the Garden - not the ACC. Hopefully the conference has booked that date for the next decade at least.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/17620647/future-changes-to-big-east-will-ruin-majesty-of-its-hoops-tournament
"Tuesday will bring the first tremor. It's the beginning of the end of the glory and pageantry and importance and identity of the Big East tournament, which is to say it is the termination of all of those things for the Big East Conference as well."
Really? Last year 11 teams, this year maybe up to 10 teams. Temple and Memphis will be in Big East and they are NCAA tourney bound this year and quite frankly, often. Lose Syracuse which hurts, but Temple and Memphis off set with tourney teams.
All this talk of the ACC - other than Duke and UNC (and in two years Syracuse), where are the other 7 or 8 teams going to the dance? I don't see it, but I still see it out of the Big East. The ACC is top loaded, but those top teams have some changes coming - Boeheim is 67, Coach K is 65 and Roy Williams is 61. Coaching changes are always crap shoots.
The Big East will still be a great hoops conference and come early March, The Big East will still have a big time tourney in the Garden - not the ACC. Hopefully the conference has booked that date for the next decade at least.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/17620647/future-changes-to-big-east-will-ruin-majesty-of-its-hoops-tournament