Good game with Villanova today in Rome.

Atrocious loss for Nova and the league.

(11-01-2026 12:07 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  Atrocious loss for Nova and the league.

Just a brutal loss. This was against a Notre Dame team that didn't even make the ACC tournament last year, and will be an ACC bottom feeder this year. You hate to overreact to one early season loss, but it's hard to be optimistic when you see the obvious shortcomings of this Nova team. The point guard situation is terrible, way too much dribbling, guys getting stripped of the ball all game long while dribbling into traffic. I think they had 20 turnovers. If you think this was ugly, wait until a they face a good pressing team like Virginia was in their preseason game. Inbounding the ball will be an adventure every possession.

Suigo is not anything like he was advertised to be. I thought he would cement Nova as a top 25 team. He's very raw and slow, and will likely not even be on the floor at crunch time for Nova. He'll have his good moments with his 7'3 frame taking up space in the middle, but will not be the factor Nova fans were hoping for.

Add to this they're slow, ND was beating them down court all game long, and also consistently out hustled them for every loose ball. The fact Notre Dame isn't very good either, I thought Nova might sneak away with a win. But you could see it coming, Nova was consistently sloppy and you knew they would leave the door open for an upset and wouldn't convert when they needed to.

Just a horrible start to the season. Hope a few out of the Providence, Xavier, Marquette, Creighton group step up, and have the kind of year many of us had expected Nova to have this season. What a let down.

After opening games, the Big East is 10-1.

I think the most eye-opening loss was Oklahoma without a doubt. This will likely be his last season in Norman, which is unfortunate because I thought he would have done much better than what he has there. If Schertz gets his desired high-major gig this next cycle, Moser makes a lot of sense at SLU.

so one thing that stuck out to me looking at the box score on Ken Pom- they break things down by 10 minute quarters for whatever reason.

1st and 3rd quarters- Nova won 50-40.
2nd and 4th quarters- ND won 34-22.

That's right- 50 points scored vs 22 points scored. That seems quite notable. Like able to scheme things up in the lockerroom pregame/halftime- but not able to make the adjustments on the fly in game.

Nova loss definitely hurt. I thought they would be in the 4-7 seed range come tourney time. It's only 1 game but I'm hopeful they're even a legitimate bubble team after that loss.

Seton Hall looking like the same team they always are under Holloway. Good defensively but will struggle to score the ball. Hoping their season goes more similarly to last season than the prior one. Barely beating LIU has me a little nervous.

Creighton didn't look great in their opener but rebounded in game 2.

Some solid performances to start the season. Nice to see Butler blowing teams out. Games against the cupcakes don't mean much but most of the league is performing how you would expect a power league to perform.

Big game for UConn against Michigan tomorrow!

(11-03-2026 03:31 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  After opening games, the Big East is 10-1.

I think the most eye-opening loss was Oklahoma without a doubt.

Purdue's started stinking it up early this season.

Other than the NOVA loss, good week for the league (unless I missed a non-p4 loss, I wasn’t paying attention to all of those). In both of Creighton’s games it was one half of great basketball and one of not good basketball. Hopefully they can put a whole game together soon.

DePaul and Georgetown off to solid starts. Both look reasonably competitive on paper.

Rough game for Providence. 7-38 from 3?! That's terrible, I expected their bigs to be the weakness but they won't win many games shooting like that. If they shoot even 30% from deep they beat Nebraska.

Happy Georgetown handled Maryland easily, hoping Butler stomps Boise today

Welp so much for that. Butler gave up 100 points and lost by almost 20 @Boise.

OOC hasn't been anything great thus far. Good wins for UConn and Georgetown offset by bad losses for Nova and Butler. Providence didn't look great against Nebraska in their loss. Need some teams to really step up

(11-08-2026 09:30 PM)Nameless Wrote:  Welp so much for that. Butler gave up 100 points and lost by almost 20 @Boise.

OOC hasn't been anything great thus far. Good wins for UConn and Georgetown offset by bad losses for Nova and Butler. Providence didn't look great against Nebraska in their loss. Need some teams to really step up

It's tough to understand why the league has almost always struggled in OOC play. It's been almost since the beginning been underwhelming for whatever reason- with a few exceptions obviously.