... updating the BE Tracker this morning:
https://villanova.n.rivals.com/news/2015-16-big-east-tracker
SHU and Wisconsin are back in the Top 50 of the RPI - giving quality/key wins to Marquette, Georgetown, Villanova and others.
The projected BET now has Creighton and Providence playing in the Quarters with the winner facing the winner of the Villanova against DePaul/Marquette game.
If the bracket held to form and the Cats kept winning the games would be a repeat of last year's BET run for 'Nova. Marquette - Providence - Xavier ... still way early for that but - thought it was interesting.
No BE games until Tuesday night now:
Feb 16 - 7:00 PM CREIGHTON at Butler
A win for Creighton opens the possibility that they get 11 BE wins.
A Butler loss and they will head to the Pavilion next Saturday for Villanova Senior Night at 6-8 in BE play and desperate for a win to stay in reach of a possible .500 BE record. Though they could win @Gtown and then beat SHU and Marquette at home to finish 9-9 in the case where they lose both to Creighton and 'Nova ... they really need the win against Creighton to maximize their chances down the stretch.
It will be interesting to see how Georgetown finishes. Sitting at 7-6 ... three straight home games coming but they are against SHU, X, and Butler. A road trip to Marquette (which will probably have nothing to play for in that game) and then closing the season with a game @ 'Nova. The Hoyas didn't fold when Providence punched them in the mouth yesterday but if SHU gets them and X gets a revenge win against them next Saturday - would they bounce back again from 7-8 to win 2 of the last 3?
It could play out similar to the end of the 2014 season where Georgetown needed a win at Villanova in the last game of the regular season to get to 9-9 and maintain NCAA aspirations and the Cats drilled them by 16 to send the Hoyas to the NIT and finish 16-2 themselves.
https://villanova.n.rivals.com/news/2015-16-big-east-tracker
SHU and Wisconsin are back in the Top 50 of the RPI - giving quality/key wins to Marquette, Georgetown, Villanova and others.
The projected BET now has Creighton and Providence playing in the Quarters with the winner facing the winner of the Villanova against DePaul/Marquette game.
If the bracket held to form and the Cats kept winning the games would be a repeat of last year's BET run for 'Nova. Marquette - Providence - Xavier ... still way early for that but - thought it was interesting.
No BE games until Tuesday night now:
Feb 16 - 7:00 PM CREIGHTON at Butler
A win for Creighton opens the possibility that they get 11 BE wins.
A Butler loss and they will head to the Pavilion next Saturday for Villanova Senior Night at 6-8 in BE play and desperate for a win to stay in reach of a possible .500 BE record. Though they could win @Gtown and then beat SHU and Marquette at home to finish 9-9 in the case where they lose both to Creighton and 'Nova ... they really need the win against Creighton to maximize their chances down the stretch.
It will be interesting to see how Georgetown finishes. Sitting at 7-6 ... three straight home games coming but they are against SHU, X, and Butler. A road trip to Marquette (which will probably have nothing to play for in that game) and then closing the season with a game @ 'Nova. The Hoyas didn't fold when Providence punched them in the mouth yesterday but if SHU gets them and X gets a revenge win against them next Saturday - would they bounce back again from 7-8 to win 2 of the last 3?
It could play out similar to the end of the 2014 season where Georgetown needed a win at Villanova in the last game of the regular season to get to 9-9 and maintain NCAA aspirations and the Cats drilled them by 16 to send the Hoyas to the NIT and finish 16-2 themselves.
