After losing players like Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet and A.J. Price, Pitt’s Sam Young, DeJuan Blair and LeVance Fields, Syracuse’s Jonny Flynn, Louisville’s Terrence Williams and Villanova’s Dante Cunningham to graduation and the NBA Draft, this was supposed to be a “down” year for the Big East. Hasn’t really worked out that way. The conference boasts [...]
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Pittsburgh and Villanova gave the tournament a signature game, Michigan State gives the Final Four a “home” team, and the top teams from the preseason maintain that status. The Game of the Tournament This year’s March Madness has been a little light on the “Mad” — the biggest “Cinderella” was a 12-seeded Pac 10 team [...]
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Memphis was beaten at their own game, Syracuse’s run ends with a thud, and the big concerns for Carolina and Connecticut don’t seem all that concerning… for now, anyway. And now… your Elite Eight, and how they got here. Beasts of the East We won’t have an all-Big East Final Four… but the beasts of [...]
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I believe we can officially put the “which conference is toughest” discussion to bed. Here’s a look at the number of teams each conference sent to the 2009 Sweet Sixteen: ACC – 2 (North Carolina, Duke) Big 10 – 2 (Michigan State, Purdue) Pac 10 – 1 (Arizona) Big 12 – 3 (Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas) [...]
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