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Saturday, November 23, 2024
Before Friday’s Big East Tournament semifinal games, a lot of talk centered on the matchup a night earlier between Notre Dame and South Florida, a game played at a very deliberate pace. What impact might that have on the Irish’s matchup with Louisville?
Harvard is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious institution of higher learning. On the hardwood, the NCAA Tournament has eluded the school, and the path to a bid this season just got a little bit tougher.
The tenth annual BracketBusters took center stage on Saturday, and while it gave us some good matchups, whether or not it has the intended effect when it was started is debatable.
Did you expect Notre Dame to be in fourth place in the Big East this season? In all likelihood, unless you work in their athletic department, the answer is no.
Some quick hitters about Boston University’s rebounding, a transfer helping Marquette, an improving Husky guard and a couple of key road wins among others as we head into another weekend.
It’s not every day that three of the greatest coaches ever lose a game on the same day. Yet that’s what happened on another Saturday full of noteworthy games, as Syracuse suffered its first loss on the season, Duke lost at home to put an end to a long home winning streak and Connecticut lost as well.
The Big East entered Nov. 15 as one of four conferences with no blemishes in the loss column. Of course, Kent State changed that against West Virginia by noon.
The Fighting Irish must replace the Big East Player of the Year, Ben Hansbrough, in addition to Carleton Scott and Tyrone Nash. That will leave Notre Dame hard pressed to duplicate last season’s success, but the Irish won’t slip too far.
There isn’t anyone playing better than Notre Dame right now. If the fact that they had only lost once since mid-January doesn’t convince you, then perhaps their 89-51 dismantling of Cincinnati in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament will.
The Big East once again has a bunch of highly seeded teams and a chance to place more than one team in the Final Four. But the match ups look daunting for several heavyweights.
