Post by wtm97 on Dec 17, 2014 7:51:23 GMT -5
Big East embracing identity, showing strength in non-conference play
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“I think we know it’s a long season and it’s still early,” Ackerman said, “but we’re very happy.”
Happiness, it seems, is seeing one of the league’s teams beating North Carolina. And Oklahoma. And Syracuse. And Michigan, Illinois, VCU, Minnesota, Nebraska, Florida and Notre Dame. Yes, there have been stumbles. But the failings are obscured by these remarkable wins, the headline triumphs for a league that has won 78.8 percent of the time it has played outside competition and has the nation’s second-best conference RPI. In its second year of a reconstituted existence, it’s not so much that the Big East is back. It’s acting like it never left.
Happiness, it seems, is seeing one of the league’s teams beating North Carolina. And Oklahoma. And Syracuse. And Michigan, Illinois, VCU, Minnesota, Nebraska, Florida and Notre Dame. Yes, there have been stumbles. But the failings are obscured by these remarkable wins, the headline triumphs for a league that has won 78.8 percent of the time it has played outside competition and has the nation’s second-best conference RPI. In its second year of a reconstituted existence, it’s not so much that the Big East is back. It’s acting like it never left.
MUCH MORE:
www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/12/12/big-east-basketball-success