Big East Basketball has the latest poll up, and Pitt comes in at #3 on the charts. Marquette upset UConn tonight, so that already makes this look extremely dated. It also completely tanks that planned post titled, “Welcome to the Big East, Bitch.”
Here’s the way I voted for this week.
- UConn — They will take a tumble next week.
- Villanova — Just a very, very good team.
- Pitt — Soft schedule questions, mostly answered after this past week.
- Louisville — Slipped a notch, mainly because Pitt won their challenge non-cons, while Louisville lost its earlier.
- Cinci — So far, I’d say Adam Kennedy’s audition for a job elsewhere is going pretty well.
- WVU — They are going to win and lose some headscratchers the way they shoot.
- Syracuse — Can Syracuse win tough BE games if McNamara has a bad night?
- Georgetown — This is why this is a deep tough conference. G-town did nothing to be this low, but also nothing to be higher.
- Marquette — Now the only thing between them and a big jump next week is Cinci.
- ND — So far they are like a Boston College football team: they win the games they are supposed to and lose to any at the same level or higher.
- DePaul — A scary team to play because you can never be absolutely sure what will happen, but that doesn’t make them good.
- Rutgers — They beat Princeton. Whoopie. So did Carnegie Mellon.
- St. John’s
- Providence
- Seton Hall
- USF
Here’s the thing about all 4 teams at the bottom. They are all depleted in their roster to one degree or another, and it looms even larger now that conference play is starting. St. John’s is still recovering from the loss of players a couple years ago from their own sexcapade scandal and Mike Jarvis created chaos. Providence just sheds them in some incoherent pattern, seemingly on a weekly basis. Seton Hall ended up with a house cleaning last year with players failing out, quitting and inexplicably going pro. USF has become the Big East MASH unit.
