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| UConn already got out and decided to come crawling back. They're not leaving again unless they can get into a power conference, and the power conferences are too busy using each other as building blocks like they're making a megazord or something to take on UConn's footballolololol program. |
Yeah I don’t think UCONN is moving conferences again any time soon. I wish they had some real competition in the conference though. That’s on the other schools though - not a criticism of uconn.
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| Posted: 02/22/24 8:41 am ::: |
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| I wish they'd never come back. You wanna play FBS football? You can't sit with us.
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| Posted: 02/22/24 6:22 pm ::: |
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| if UConn had an on-campus football stadium today, they’d already be in a Power conference such as the Big 12. (as it is, a Power-whatever invite could still drop on their doorstep in the next couple years with how chaotic the Power-conference landscape might once again get.) i don’t know the inner workings of why they don’t & why there doesn’t seem to be any plans to get one. half-assing a football program in that way is just like shooting yourself in the foot every September 1. that football independence of theirs has an expiration date. (at this point, even Notre Dame’s probably does too.)
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| Posted: 02/23/24 8:05 am ::: |
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| Villanova has a not so fun end to conference play - at Creighton and at UCONN before ending with a much easier game - home to DePaul.
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| Posted: 02/23/24 9:00 am ::: |
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| The time of getting punched directly in the feelings is upon us- tomorrow is Senior Day at St. John's (and at a lot of other places I have interest in, but Unique Drake did not put up with Joe Tartamella starting transfers over her just for me to fuck off to another Senior Day).
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| Posted: 02/27/24 8:00 am ::: |
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| It’s senior day for Marquette against St. John’s. I was interested to see if it would be pregame and who they’d be honoring. They are honoring 5 seniors so it seems the seniors who could take a Covid year aren’t coming back. I was hoping to have another year of Liza Karlen and Rose Nkumu but they have to do what’s best for them. Finally tracked down that it will be a pregame ceremony. I miss when that did the ceremony after the game. It’s a big game for MU as they face a team they’re battling to finish 3rd in the BE.
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| Posted: 02/28/24 8:56 am ::: |
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So what do other BE fans think of the 18 game schedule this season with only playing two teams once - one of them home and one of them away? I see the men are still playing everyone twice with a 20 game league schedule so wondering why the women did this. But then I'm wondering if it was done partly for UCONN to be able to play better teams in the non-conference schedule.
St. John's and Villanova only played once and they may very well end up tied. That game was at St. John's and they prevailed. I bet Villanova will be wishing they'd gotten to play St. John's a second time at home if they end up tied.
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| Posted: 02/28/24 10:06 am ::: |
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So what do other BE fans think of the 18 game schedule this season with only playing two teams once - one of them home and one of them away? I see the men are still playing everyone twice with a 20 game league schedule so wondering why the women did this. But then I'm wondering if it was done partly for UCONN to be able to play better teams in the non-conference schedule.
St. John's and Villanova only played once and they may very well end up tied. That game was at St. John's and they prevailed. I bet Villanova will be wishing they'd gotten to play St. John's a second time at home if they end up tied. |
Given that UConn only played Butler and Xavier once, I think you might be exactly right in thinking it was done perhaps at UConn's request. I can't imagine it's a coincidence that UConn avoided playing the two teams that have historically been the worst over the past few seasons.
I personally don't like the 18-game schedule. One thing the Big East has on the men's side (and had on the women's side until now) over the other megaconferences is that the standings are an accurate reflection of who had the best season with everyone plays an equal schedule. Now, with the 18-game schedule, the luck of your schedule is a factor of where you finish in the standings.
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| Posted: 02/29/24 11:33 am ::: |
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| Overall UCONN needs to figure a way out of the big east . I don't see things improving with top recruits for the conference with UCONN's best win this year being #22 Louisville .
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| Posted: 02/29/24 12:15 pm ::: |
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| Overall UCONN needs to figure a way out of the big east . I don't see things improving with top recruits for the conference with UCONN's best win this year being #22 Louisville . |
Women’s sports aren’t considered for conference moves - they aren’t going anywhere.
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| Posted: 02/29/24 1:26 pm ::: |
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| Overall UCONN needs to figure a way out of the big east . I don't see things improving with top recruits for the conference with UCONN's best win this year being #22 Louisville . |
I agree, but football drives the bus, and that's one thing UConn just ain't got. All they have is basketball. Period.
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| Posted: 02/29/24 8:47 pm ::: |
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| I personally don't like the 18-game schedule. One thing the Big East has on the men's side (and had on the women's side until now) over the other megaconferences is that the standings are an accurate reflection of who had the best season with everyone plays an equal schedule. Now, with the 18-game schedule, the luck of your schedule is a factor of where you finish in the standings. |
Same. As you said, the luck of the draw might just have put St. John's in the top four this year. I don't think we sweep Villanova, especially if that second game is at the Pavilion, and I'm not sure we survive DePaul twice. A true round robin is the only way things are fair.
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| Posted: 03/11/24 12:38 pm ::: |
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Following a (well documented by me, sorry) 1-27 season, Xavier's leading scorer, Mackayla Scarlett, has entered the transfer portal.
It will be interesting to see how the postseason bids shake out. It was not a particularly strong year for the Big East.
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| Posted: 03/12/24 9:03 am ::: |
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| I'm not sure I see it happening, but the Lexington Herald Leader's story on potential candidates to replace Kyra Elzy has Megan Duffy at the very top.
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| Posted: 03/12/24 10:22 am ::: |
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| I'm not sure I see it happening, but the Lexington Herald Leader's story on potential candidates to replace Kyra Elzy has Megan Duffy at the very top. |
I’m not sure anyone would seriously consider her after the UCONN game debacle. She may be close to hot seat material at MU actually.
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| Posted: 03/12/24 10:31 am ::: |
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| I personally don't like the 18-game schedule. One thing the Big East has on the men's side (and had on the women's side until now) over the other megaconferences is that the standings are an accurate reflection of who had the best season with everyone plays an equal schedule. Now, with the 18-game schedule, the luck of your schedule is a factor of where you finish in the standings. |
Same. As you said, the luck of the draw might just have put St. John's in the top four this year. I don't think we sweep Villanova, especially if that second game is at the Pavilion, and I'm not sure we survive DePaul twice. A true round robin is the only way things are fair. |
Marquette lucked out only having Georgetown at home too. I agree about not being a fan of the unbalanced schedule. But I feel like they did those so uconn could play more non conference games and have tougher opponents that way. With how bad the rest of the BE was this year, I feel like the unbalanced schedule will remain.
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| Posted: 03/13/24 1:24 pm ::: |
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| HomerCecil wrote: |
| I personally don't like the 18-game schedule. One thing the Big East has on the men's side (and had on the women's side until now) over the other megaconferences is that the standings are an accurate reflection of who had the best season with everyone plays an equal schedule. Now, with the 18-game schedule, the luck of your schedule is a factor of where you finish in the standings. |
Same. As you said, the luck of the draw might just have put St. John's in the top four this year. I don't think we sweep Villanova, especially if that second game is at the Pavilion, and I'm not sure we survive DePaul twice. A true round robin is the only way things are fair. |
Marquette lucked out only having Georgetown at home too. I agree about not being a fan of the unbalanced schedule. But I feel like they did those so uconn could play more non conference games and have tougher opponents that way. With how bad the rest of the BE was this year, I feel like the unbalanced schedule will remain. |
I think you're correct. UConn probably pushed this so they could improve their schedule strength. The Huskies' only weak nonconference game was Dayton and they probably scheduled that when Dayton was good. I'm not considering the home-coming game against that Toronto team, because the NCAA didn't consider it for Net. Sometimes UConn has had difficulty finding decent opponents for homecoming games (e.g., Cuse refused the chance to host Stewart's homecoming game).
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| Posted: 03/13/24 1:30 pm ::: |
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| I'm not sure I see it happening, but the Lexington Herald Leader's story on potential candidates to replace Kyra Elzy has Megan Duffy at the very top. |
I’m not sure anyone would seriously consider her after the UCONN game debacle. She may be close to hot seat material at MU actually. |
Really? I agree that was a very bad showing, but is she really on the hot seat? It seems to me that her biggest issue at Marquette has been recruiting/maintaining a good roster. She hasn't gotten many good recruits and has lost good recruits to the portal. That's an incredibly important part of the job, of course, but she seems like an excellent X's and O's coach. But if you cannot get good X's, I guess that's an issue.
You are a very good Warriors' fan, so I'm curious how you feel about her?
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| Posted: 03/13/24 9:41 pm ::: |
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| I'm not sure I see it happening, but the Lexington Herald Leader's story on potential candidates to replace Kyra Elzy has Megan Duffy at the very top. |
I’m not sure anyone would seriously consider her after the UCONN game debacle. She may be close to hot seat material at MU actually. |
Really? I agree that was a very bad showing, but is she really on the hot seat? It seems to me that her biggest issue at Marquette has been recruiting/maintaining a good roster. She hasn't gotten many good recruits and has lost good recruits to the portal. That's an incredibly important part of the job, of course, but she seems like an excellent X's and O's coach. But if you cannot get good X's, I guess that's an issue.
You are a very good Warriors' fan, so I'm curious how you feel about her? |
They have fallen apart this year and just scored the lowest point total in program history last game out and looked pathetic. They frequently have little to no offense. Not sold on her recruiting - they honored 5 seniors this year - 2 were Kieger recruits, one a grad transfer she got and 2 of her recruits. There were 4 senior starters this year and the only non senior starter Mackenzie Hare was originally signed by St. Louis but reopened her recruitment when they fired Lisa Stone - MU lucked into getting her then. Next season looks pretty bleak right now unless the transfer portal lands them a lot of great talent. They have 6 returners on their roster and only 3 of them have gotten any kind of decent playing time. One frosh this year barely played and one sophomore sat out this year with a torn ACL and really didn’t play last season. And who knows who may transfer out.
And she has yet to win an NCAA tournament game and I highly doubt that will change this year.
I don’t think she will get fired now but I have seen some people calling for that. I will say I don’t feel real great about the program going forward at this point though.
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| Posted: 03/17/24 8:12 pm ::: |
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UCONN is a 3, Creighton a 7 and Marquette a 10 in the NCAA Tourney. I expected MU to get a First Four game so was surprised with that 10 seed. Duffy gets to return to her alma mater as they are facing Ole Miss at Notre Dame.
I am expecting Villanova, St. John's, Georgetown and Seton Hall to be in the WNIT assuming they all accept bids.
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| Posted: 03/17/24 8:41 pm ::: |
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UCONN is a 3, Creighton a 7 and Marquette a 10 in the NCAA Tourney. I expected MU to get a First Four game so was surprised with that 10 seed. Duffy gets to return to her alma mater as they are facing Ole Miss at Notre Dame.
I am expecting Villanova, St. John's, Georgetown and Seton Hall to be in the WNIT assuming they all accept bids. |
Totally wrong about the last part as I missed the fact that there's a new WBIT tournament owned and funded by the NCAA. All 4 of those teams I thought were going to the WNIT are going to the WBIT.
WBIT bracket - https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/public-s3/images/2024/03/17/2024-WBIT-bracket.png
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