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Big East Basketball-Only Schools Schedule Teleconference, Villanova Participating
According to Dick Weiss in the New York Post, the Big East "basketball-only" schools have scheduled a teleconference call for today to discuss the future of the Big East and what it will mean for them. Clearly, Big East expansion has been driven by the "football schools" and schools such as...
Hockey East Tournament Seeding Scenarios
The Eagles know what they need to do tonight to win the Hockey East regular season title. Win or tie the Wildcats tonight at the Whittemore Center and the Eagles will earn the Hockey East Tournament no. 1 seed and take home their first regular season title in six seasons. Last night's 4-0 victory...
The Week That Was: Jan 4th Edition
It's been a good week. It started with the conference schedule preview and the player review of the pre-conference season. And St. John's has taken their first three games. 3-0 in the Big East, with 2 road wins and a home win over a ranked squad? It's been a good week. Here's how it happened: * So,...
5 Questions with Friar Basketball
Spirits are high for St. John's after the road conference-opening win against the West Virginia Mountaineers. The Red Storm hope to stretch their three-game winning streak with another win on the road in Providence against a much-improved Friar club. Who are they? How are they different than last...
St. John's Big East Conference schedule preview 2011
On the eve of conference play, I'm not sure I would believe anyone who tells me they can predict what St. John's men's basketball team is going to do in the conference months. The Storm has a heavy schedule. The title of this article is a misnomer, obviously. The upcoming slate includes two more...
Dec Roundtable: What will the final Big East standings be?
I. Team review, so far | II. Surprise Big East team | III. Most disappointing Big East team | IV. Player surprises/ disappointments | V. How will the Big East teams finish? Big East play starts tonight! With Connecticut and Pittsburgh playing tonight, the Big East kicks off 3 months of bare...
December Roundtable: Team Expectations
As longtime followers of the blog know, I do love a roundtable. Coming into Big East play - which starts next week! - there are a lot of teams who have really surpassed expectations... so far. Rutgers is competent. Connecticut is incredible. Louisville's demise has been greatly exaggerated....
BE Bloggers Roundtable (May 2010) Part IV: Risers, Fallers
Part I - team-specific review | Part II - surprise teams in the Big East | Part III - the Big East in aggregate The last in our bloggers' roundtable series asks our intrepid bloggers about the teams they think will move up in the Big East standings next year... and which teams they think will...
BE Bloggers Roundtable (May 2010) Part III: The Big East's Season
Inspiration for the next sentence from the Ja Rule Duets diss from a few years ago. !!If you liked Part I of our bloggers' roundtable - a team-specific look from each blogger; and Part II - surprise teams in the Big East, you'll love Parts III and IV!! To be more serious - I asked some other...
BE Bloggers Roundtable (May 2010) Part II: SurpriseTeams
The Big East season is long finished. But the programs play to win the game, and sometimes that simple goal and some good coaching takes a team to higher win totals than anyone outside of the program would have imagined. But of course, sometimes the best laid plans of coaches and recruits sometimes...
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