The Big East Tournament is going on currently in NYC. The Big East is a ridiculous conference, with 16 teams for basketball. The tourney's bracket is also one of the more ridiculous things I've ever seen. The bottom 8 seeds play the first day, seed 5-8 get byes to the second day, and seeds 1-4 get byes to the third day. It's pretty ridiculous, and has been thrilling so far.
The first game was DePaul vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati was a bubble team (meaning they could still get into the NCAA tournament, but they would need to some damage. They're record of 18-14, 8-10 in the conference was looking pretty good against DePaul, who was 9-23, and a whopping 0-18 in the conference. Well, the fact that I am writing about it should give you an indication of the outcome. DePaul got the W, their first conference win of the season. What? 0-18 and you get your first win in the conference tourney? A great shout out for that.
Game 2 pitted St. Johns against Georgetown. Georgetown looked great early on before getting thrashed down the stretch. Even as the higher seed in the matchup, the Hoyas got the dagger from St. Johns. The good ole days of speculating that the Big East could get 10 teams in the tourney are pretty much done.
If Rutgers and USF could pull off the last two upsets, it would be amazing. You better believe I'll be pulling for it.
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