Big East Tournament week is here!
- Big East Tournament bracket here. Or, if you disdain brckets, here. So, the Hoyas will probably need to have a four-game South Florida-Syracuse-Villanova-West Virginia winning streak — teams against which they’re 1-5 — to win the conference crown. Put differently, four straight payback games! (Except for Nova, I guess.) It all starts with Georgetown v. the winner of South Florida/DePaul, Wednesday at noon EST on ESPN.
- All-Big East Teams are here. Greg Monroe was named to the first team, and Austin Freeman to the second. Well done, sirs. After getting deservedly shut out of the All-Big East team after last year’s stinkbomb, the Hoyas return to 2008 and -07 form, when the Hoyas also netted one player on each of the first two teams. Tough to see Freeman omitted from the first team, but also tough to quibble with the other five that made it in front of him (Luke Harangody, Dominique Jones, Wesley Johnson, Scottie Reynolds, and Da’Sean Butler). Maybe this will lead to an angry Freeman dominating Jones, Johnson, Reynolds, and Butler in succession this week?
- Seed watch–Joe Lunardi has the Hoyas currently as a 5 6 seed in the dance, a precipitous fall from earlier projections. It also looks as though they’ll need a win Wednesday to stay a 5 6 seed; Lunardi has them as number 20 23 on the S-curve, meaning that they’re the second-to-last 5 6 seed on the board, one mis-step away from a possible 7 seed. And, they’ll probably need wins Wednesday and Thursday (the latter over Syracuse) to move back into the 5 or 4 range. Of course, Lunardi is not the committee, so we won’t know anything definitive until Sunday.
- Rankings watch–Hoyas #22 in both polls, sliding down a couple of spots.
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