(04-26-2018 11:05 AM)hoops22 Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 10:30 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 10:18 AM)Bogg Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 09:56 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Stupidly, the Big East just twiddled its thumbs passively, allowing the ACC to take another killer blow at it in 2011, and this time the blow was fatal.

Was it? The Big East is still plugging along with the best conference tournament in the sport and has the current men's basketball national champion.

for the 2011 league, it absolutely was a fatal blow for the all sports conference. To act like it's the same league as in 2011, sorry but it's not close.

Also, hate to say it but tough to call the BET the best conference tournament in the sport when it draws less than half the viewers the ACC tourney draws. The ACC tourney has the BET time spot prime time Saturday night. Last years ACC final was the #1 regular season basketball game of the year.

Typical Stever blather. The quality of the tournament is completely unrelated to the number of people watching. The best tournament would be determined by overall atmosphere and quality of play. This years BE tournament was played in the worlds most preeminent basketball arena, with wildly enthusiastic crowds, with 60% of the teams NCAA tournament bound, including two No. 1 seeds and the eventual national champion. It doesn't matter how many people from Albuquerque N.M. or Dubuque, Iowa were watching. Other leagues have far more schools with far larger enrollments, it stands to reason they would get more viewers. Two of the best college basketball games I watched this year were Gonzaga/ Florida and St. Bonaventure/Davidson. Using Stevers logic, I guess neither game was really all that good since they were late at night and not enough people were watching.i

typical Big East homer. Totally discounting TV. Always making excuses for why TV ratings are so low. The BET is a very good tournament.

The one thing I would say as well- major conference tournaments don't mean as much as they used to even 10 years ago. back then pre first 4, you would have had as known things Providence and Butler this year having to win their 1st game to just have any shot of making the tourney. So that's taken out the drama to some degree in the conference tournaments as a whole from the power conferences. Like it or not, so much of the story and narrative in the championship week is the NCAA bubble.