For all of our followers out there, I'm sorry I did not post yesterday. I forgot it was Tuesday. With that being said, my blog post was going to be short this week anyways.
I am tired of listening to how great the Big East is at basketball. Many sources like ESPN claim that the Big East is the best conference in college basketball. The selection committee for the NCAA tournament was even considering giving them two #1 seeds (Pitt and Notre Dame). The fact is they received 11 bids to a 68 team tournament. That is over 16%. And how did they fair after two rounds of tournament play? Lets see...
#1 seed Pittsburgh lost 70-71 to Butler (#8)
#2 seed Notre Dame lost 57-71 to Florida State (#10)
#3 seed Syracuse lost 62-66 to Marquette (#11)
#4 seed Louisville lost 61-62 to Morehead State (#13)
#5 seed West Virginia lost 63-71 to Kentucky (#4)
#6 seed Georgetown lost 56-74 to Virgina Commonwealth University (#11)
#6 seed Cincinnati lost 58-69 to Connecticut (#3)
#6 seed St. John's lost 71-86 to Gonzaga (#11)
#9 seed Villanova lost 57-61 to George Mason (#8)
The only two teams that survived the first two rounds were #3 UConn and #11 Marquette. Sure both these teams advanced by beating a fellow Big East teams, but how would they of fared if they were to play a different conference? Would we have any Big East teams left?
Meanwhile the conference with the most teams remaining in the tournament is the ACC!. The underrated ACC only received 4 bids in the tournament, and three of them are still alive; Duke, UNC, FSU.
This is a similar trend to the past three years of the NCAA tournament. The Big East gets a lot of high seeded teams into the tournament, then bust. Meanwhile an ACC team has won the tournament the past two years, and has a very good chance of winning it again this year.
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