Friday, September 2, 2016

Can the Big East do it again?

Since realignment, when the Big East became a conference without FBS football, it has maintained its place among the elite basketball conferences. Without the huge football television revenue that conferences like the $EC rakes in by the carloads, they are consistently beating at least one of the five money conferences in basketball composite RPI rankings. Since they became completely basketball-centered, they have beaten the mighty $EC each year.

Can they do it again? Who knows? Those are some mighty good basketball schools with a rich history in the game. The SEC is throwing all kinds of money at basketball because they have been embarrassed by how bad they have been, relatively speaking. (Their fan bases, for the most part, could not care less, of course.) The Pac 12 has been improving of late, all the way up to second last season. So we shall see if a basketball survives among the elite.

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