Six of the ten teams in the Big East have four games left. The remaining four teams have three games left. The bottomline is that the regular season comes to a conclusion on March 5th with all ten teams in action and the likelihood is that many of the Big East members will still be jockeying for final seeding position for the Big East Tournament that begins on March 9th at Madison Square Garden. I’ll be doing this “Seed Watch” post regularly over the next eleven days and there will be more detail about tiebreakers and scenarios as the season gets closer to a conclusion. For now, I’ll give you the Big East Tournament bracket as it would be today and what a win for certain teams this week means for the seeding outlook.
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Baffling. Mysterious. Puzzling. Inexplicable. Unexplainable. These are the words that come to mind when watching Providence continue to miss wide open shot after wide open shot. They also threw in some missed layups for good measure. There’s bad shooting and then there’s the Friars. I didn’t think they could “top” their 30% shooting performance from the first matchup between these teams, but they managed to prove me wrong and shoot a whopping 28% in this game. I’ve never seen a team miss so many wide open shots in my entire life. I don’t know how it can be fixed, but Ed Cooley needs to start figuring it out.
Six of the ten teams in the Big East have four games left. The remaining four teams have three games left. The bottomline is that the regular season comes to a conclusion on March 5th with all ten teams in action and the likelihood is that many of the Big East members will still be jockeying for final seeding position for the Big East Tournament that begins on March 9th at Madison Square Garden. I’ll be doing this “Seed Watch” post regularly over the next eleven days and there will be more detail about tiebreakers and scenarios as the season gets closer to a conclusion. For now, I’ll give you the Big East Tournament bracket as it would be today and what a win for certain teams this week means for the seeding outlook.
Week 16 of the college basketball polls have been released and Providence has dropped out of the AP Top 25, while remaining in the USA Today Coaches’ Top 25 after an 0-1 week that included a road loss at Xavier. The Friars are now 7-7 in Big East play and will travel to New Jersey for a Thursday night game against Seton Hall before returning home to take on DePaul at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on Saturday. This breaks a 12 week streak of Providence being ranked in the Top 25 of the AP Poll, the longest such streak since the 1977-78 Friars were ranked for 13 consecutive weeks in the AP Poll. The Friars moved from 23rd to 27th in the AP Poll and from 20th to 24th in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll this week.
You may have seen reports that Providence got a commitment yesterday from 2017 Dajour Dickens. That report ended up being false, or at least the person reporting it jumped the gun. As of now, Providence remains in good shape for Dickens, who visited last weekend for the Georgetown game. Sorry for any confusion.
The Big East currently has two teams sitting atop the league’s standings, two teams toiling away in the cellar and the other six teams beating each other to death in the middle. This has been the recipe each of the first three seasons of this configuration of the Big East. Villanova remains the most consistent. Jay Wright’s program has been among those two at the top all three seasons. The other program on high this season — Xavier — also appears to be in a position to stay there. That leaves teams like Butler, Creighton, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence and Seton Hall to bloody each other’s win/loss records in hopes of snagging the other three spots that make up the top half of the league.
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