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Big East Success
In year four of the reorganized Big East, the conference is coming off a national championship from Villanova, four current teams in the top-25, three current teams in the top-10, and the title of the number one conference RPI - over the ACC, B1G, SEC, PAC-12 and Big 12. Not only has the league survived attempted murder from ESPN, along with many media outlets claiming the league would never be able to experience success without football, the conference is alive and thriving thanks to a 10-team set-up, all of which are like-minded institutions, with a basketball-first mentality and Private/Catholic identity.

CBS Bracketology (11/28)

CONFERENCE RPI
NON-CONFERENCE OVERALL
RANK CONFERENCE W L PCT RPI RANK RPI
1 Big East Conference 44 15 0.7458 0.6292 1 0.6292
2 Atlantic Coast Conference 72 16 0.8182 0.6049 2 0.6049
3 Big Ten Conference 63 21 0.7500 0.5865 3 0.5865
4 Southeastern Conference 55 22 0.7143 0.5803 4 0.5803
5 Big 12 Conference 47 9 0.8393 0.5733 5 0.5733
6 Atlantic 10 Conference 49 29 0.6282 0.5290 6 0.5290
7 Western Athletic Conference 19 22 0.4634 0.5266 7 0.5266
8 American Athletic Conference 38 22 0.6333 0.5224 8 0.5224
9 West Coast Conference 33 20 0.6226 0.5206 9 0.5206
10 Mountain West Conference 33 21 0.6111 0.5186 10 0.5186
11 Pacific 12 Conference 51 17 0.7500 0.5178 11 0.5178

Jon Rothstein
http://www.fanragsports.com/cbb/rothstei...ntire-sec/

"2. The Big East is making a case to be college basketball’s second best conference

The ACC is clearly going to have more teams in the 2017 NCAA Tournament than any other league in college basketball, but the Big East is again proving that the term “power-five” is dead when it comes to hoops.

This conference currently has four teams — Villanova, Xavier, Creighton, and Butler — that have won early season tournaments and each of those four teams have earned quality victories before Dec. 1.

The defending national champions own arguably the season’s best road win when they won at Purdue in the Gavitt Games and Creighton followed that up the next night with a convincing win over Wisconsin.

Xavier hasn’t been at full strength, but the Musketeers have still won games against Clemson and Northern Iowa (twice) while Butler earned a huge triumph last Friday against Arizona in Las Vegas.

These four teams make the Big East in contention to usurp the Big Ten and Big 12 as the sport’s second-best league.

Kansas and Baylor have been terrific to start the season, but the Big 12 doesn’t look nearly as strong at the top as it was last year after the personnel defections at Iowa State, Oklahoma, and Texas.

The Big Ten meanwhile, is still finding itself a bit at the top as many of its teams have suffered several early season losses.

If Georgetown, Seton Hall, and either Providence or Marquette show signs of life, then things could really be interesting in terms of the national perception of the Big East this season.

This conference took a major step last season when Villanova became its first program to win a national title following realignment.

It can take another this year if it keeps performing at the level it has thus far out of the gate."

Very happy for the success of the Big East. Proof that you don't need to be in the "Power-5" to be successful in college athletics.
11-28-2016 11:29 PM
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RE: Big East Success
Butler just won pretty easily @UTAH tonight.

Power 6 Head to Head (through Nov. 28)
Big XII (11-6)
Big East (15-12)
ACC (13-12)
B1G (14-17)
Pac 12 (7-9)
SEC (8-12)
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2016 12:27 AM by Jet915.)
11-29-2016 12:26 AM
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Wow, cool story bro.
11-29-2016 12:29 AM
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RE: Big East Success
Pac 12 looking terrible this year.

Congrats to the Big East, I will forever have a spot in my heart for the old Big East before the break up. It's good to see the conference still competing at a high level
11-29-2016 12:33 AM
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