Way too early Lunardi bracketology with commentary on the Big East

[CL82]

Bracketology: Could ... Oregon earn a No. 2 seed?!

For all the big-name Big Ten additions, Oregon is the most surprising -- and among the best -- of the bunch.

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In less than four weeks, we'll be poring over the first set of game results and no doubt jumping to all the wrong conclusions. But one assessment seems incontrovertible for the 2023-24 season: The Big East is loaded. Three teams -- defending champion UConn along with Marquette and Creighton -- have legitimate designs on an NCAA title. Villanova, the league's fourth-best squad, can point to a pair of national championships and a trio of No. 1 seeds in the past decade. In short, the Big East can dream of repeating its seemingly unrepeatable feat from 1985: a record three Final Four teams in the same year. It's an unlikely outcome, to be sure, but one that was unthinkable when the conference split from its football members in 2013. Yes, the headlines might proclaim a "football is king" narrative, but apparently the Big East folks didn't get the memo.

 

[SHUisNJsTeam]

Would love to see three Big East teams make the Final Four again! Would love it even more if one of those teams was Seton Hall!

 

[CL82]

Fyi, here is Fanta's take:

 

[Seton75]

I am actually laughing a little thinking of the doomsday crap and now seeing 5 top 25s and so many BE kids on the AA teams. Holy mackeral!!!

 

[thehall07]

HATE bracket talk before Feb.

 

[dehere23]

I am actually laughing a little thinking of the doomsday crap and now seeing 5 top 25s and so many BE kids on the AA teams. Holy mackeral!!!

I don't pretend to fully grasp the economics of all this stuff, conference realignment, the monetary incentives for certain schools to "re-align" and the like, but I think the Big East because of its coaches is as well-positioned as it ever has, even in the NIL era.

 

[HallBall'n]

5 in Fanta’s top 20. LOVE the bracket talk, anytime.