As I see it

[Halldan1]

1. Connecticut 11-0
Since day one

2. Xavier 7-3
Three close losses to Indiana, Duke and Gonzaga

3. Marquette 8-3
Routed Notre Dame on the road Sunday

4. St. John's 10-1
Soft schedule to date

5. Creighton 6-4
4 losses in a row

6. Villanova 5-5
Getting in gear

7. Seton Hall 6-4
Phew. 45 points is a W?

8. Butler 8-3
Playing well but no signature wins

9. Providence 8-3
Did Charmin set up this schedule? Best W against Kenpom #196 Rhode Island

10. DePaul 6-4
Taken to the cleaners by St John's

11. Georgetown 5-6
John Thompson must be rolling in his grave

 

[shu09]

1. Connecticut
2. Xavier
3. Creighton
4. Marquette
5. St. John's
6. Villanova
7. Providence
8. Butler
9. Seton Hall
10. DePaul
11. Georgetown

 

[Halldan1]

Not sure these results are better than Seton Hall's to date....

Providence

Tue Nov 8		200	Rider	W, 66-65			Home	1-0
Sat Nov 12		263	Northeastern	W, 89-65			Home	2-0
Tue Nov 15		334	Stonehill	W, 100-76			Home	3-0
Sat Nov 19		43	Miami FL	L, 74-64			Neutral	3-1
Sun Nov 20		61	Saint Louis	L, 76-73			Neutral	3-2
Wed Nov 23		352	Merrimack	W, 71-57			Home	4-2
Sat Nov 26		349	Columbia	W, 78-64			Home	5-2
Wed Nov 30		45	TCU	L, 75-62			Away	5-3
Sat Dec 3		196	Rhode Island	W, 88-74			Away	6-3
Wed Dec 7		315	Manhattan	W, 99-59			Home	7-3
Sat Dec 10		333	Albany	W, 93-55			Home	8-3

 

[Bud Boomer]

Elite
UConn

NCAA teams
Creighton
Xavier
Marquette

Not quite NCAA teams
Nova
St. Johns
Seton Hall
Providence
Butler

Bad
DePaul

Georgetown
Georgetown

 

[jdavispirates]

1. Uconn
2. X
3. Creighton
4. St J
5. Marquette
6. Nova
7. Butler
8. Prov
9. Hall
10. Depaul
11. Gtown

 

[SPK145]

1) Connecticut - Talk about quality depth, wow!!!

2) Xavier - The 2 big men present much problems.
3) Marquette - They keep winning.
4) Creighton - They keep losing.

5) St. John's (NY) - Probably too high and due to a soft schedule.
6) Villanova - Getting better now with Whitmore healthy, if Moore ever comes back at 100%?
7) Seton Hall - Need to play with last night's intensity every game.
8) Providence - Bryce Hopkins is good.

9) Butler - Improved but still shaky.

10) DePaul - If not for Georgetown.
11) Georgetown - Waiting for the inevitable.

 

[Hall91]

1. UConn
2. Xavier
3. Creighton
4. Nova (Whitmore is a difference maker)
5. Marquette
6. St. John;s
7. Providence
8. Butler
9. SHU (need to see how these first few games in league go)
10. DePaul (more out of reflex, not sure we’re better)
11. Hoyas

 

[hallgrad80]

And UConn has commitments from 3 of the top 100 players in ESPN’s 2023 rankings led by PG Stephon Castle at 23, SG Solomon Bell at 48 and SF Jaylin Stewart at 97. Hurley has his program running on all cylinders and is poised to be the flagship team in the Big East especially if his key players return next year.

 

[radecicco]

We all know UCONN is seeking any and all opportunities to get into a football 5 league. But right now is exactly why the BE, FOX and MSG wanted UCONN. Where would the BE be this year without UCONN. It has been a mutually beneficial relationship up to this point.

 

[hallgrad80]

We all know UCONN is seeking any and all opportunities to get into a football 5 league. But right now is exactly why the BE, FOX and MSG wanted UCONN. Where would the BE be this year without UCONN. It has been a mutually beneficial relationship up to this point.

We all know that if UConn football keeps making strides and a Power 5 conference comes calling they’re gone. With a respectable football program and highly rated men’s and women’s basketball programs they become more attractive. to a P - 5 conference .

 

[TrueBlue1989]

We all know that if UConn football keeps making strides and a Power 5 conference comes calling they’re gone. With a respectable football program and highly rated men’s and women’s basketball programs they become more attractive. to a P - 5 conference

We all know that if UConn football keeps making strides and a Power 5 conference comes calling they’re gone. With a respectable football program and highly rated men’s and women’s basketball programs they become more attractive. to a P - 5 conference .

Basketball is irrelevant to the analysis. Uconn is extremely unlikely to get an offer from a major conference.

 

[silkcitypirate]

Basketball is irrelevant to the analysis. Uconn is extremely unlikely to get an offer from a major conference.

The Big 10 would love to dump ru and replace them with Uconn if they could .

 

[HallGuy23]

Is this the worst the Big East has ever been top to bottom?

 

[Halldan1]

They are the 4th highest rated conference in the country. Ahead of the ACC and PAC 12.

 

[radecicco]

The Big 10 would love to dump ru and replace them with Uconn if they could .

The B1G made the wrong choice back in 2013. They thought the most important ingredient for taking new schools was geography. The only thing that matters is brand. Rutgers doesn’t have it. UCONN had a better brand in all sports back in 2013.

 

[lloyde dobler]

The B1G made the wrong choice back in 2013. They thought the most important ingredient for taking new schools was geography. The only thing that matters is brand. Rutgers doesn’t have it. UCONN had a better brand in all sports back in 2013.

It wasn’t brand. They thought it was cable TV homes in the NY-NJ area, and the DC area as well. And Rutgers getting BTN on basic in this market has been huge for them $$$$ wise.

 

[silkcitypirate]

The B1G made the wrong choice back in 2013. They thought the most important ingredient for taking new schools was geography. The only thing that matters is brand. Rutgers doesn’t have it. UCONN had a better brand in all sports back in 2013.

They did not do their homework on geography. RU is in central Jersey in the middle of nowhere. It is not in the NY or Philly market . When is the last time you read an article in any NY or Philly paper about RU football or even BB (when we beat them Sunday ).

The last B 10 commissioner was from Jersey and conned the B 10 into believing that they were a NY market team. WRONG !!1

 

[CL82]

The Big 10 would love to dump ru and replace them with Uconn if they could .

Not sure about that. NJ’s 9 million population vs CT’s 3 million population probably tips the scales in their direction. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure big 10 fans would prefer us. In any event, the big 10 appears to be looking west and not east. If they do look east, it’ll be for North Carolina and one other school out of the ACC. Connecticut has a good chance of being backfill for those schools. But that won’t happen until we get to close the end of the ACC GOR. Figure it is about 10 years away, at the earliest.

For what it’s worth, it’s not having a following in New York City that mattered. What mattered is being a part of the New York City DMA area, which extends down to central Jersey and to 1 million homes in Connecticut.

 

[lloyde dobler]

They did not do their homework on geography. RU is in central Jersey in the middle of nowhere. It is not in the NY or Philly market . When is the last time you read an article in any NY or Philly paper about RU football or even BB (when we beat them Sunday ).

The last B 10 commissioner was from Jersey and conned the B 10 into believing that they were a NY market team. WRONG !!1

They accomplished their goal. They got BTN on basic cable in the NY/NJ area and in doing so have brought millions and millions of $$$$$ to the conference. And best of all for the teams in the league, Rutgers isn’t much of a threat to them on the field in football. It‘s a classic win-win.

 

[silkcitypirate]

They accomplished their goal. They got BTN on basic cable in the NY/NJ area and in doing so have brought millions and millions of $$$$$ to the conference. And best of all for the teams in the league, Rutgers isn’t much of a threat to them on the field in football. It‘s a classic win-win.

I guess ru got lucky . When they say it's not about the money IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY . At best their football team may be in the middle of the pack and basketball who knows .

 

[TheHall87]

They did not do their homework on geography. RU is in central Jersey in the middle of nowhere. It is not in the NY or Philly market . When is the last time you read an article in any NY or Philly paper about RU football or even BB (when we beat them Sunday ).

The last B 10 commissioner was from Jersey and conned the B 10 into believing that they were a NY market team. WRONG !!1

Lloyde has it right. Adding RU was a play for the BTN. That has given BTN a much larger potential footprint and they are in thousand of homes on basic cable they wouldn't be in otherwise. That has generated millions of dollars for the conference.

 

[STLPirate12]

It's UConn and everyone else right now. I'm not saying I think we currently are or will finish second, but I am saying nobody else is far enough ahead of us to think there's no possible path to second.