ESPN Bubble Watch

Big East
Locks
Marquette Golden Eagles (97%), UConn Huskies (97%)
Should be in
ST St. John's Red Storm (89%)
The Red Storm ought to be quite safe to make the tourney, with a top-15 SOR, particularly after beating Marquette on Tuesday. Despite the recent loss of forward Brady Dunlap to an abdominal injury, they just keep winning Big East games (11-1). (Updated
Feb. 4 at 9:05 p.m.)
Next game: Friday at UConn, 8 p.m. (Fox)
Creighton Blue Jays (88%)

Oh, St. John's and UConn is on big boy Fox tonight?
I wasn't aware -- FS1 might want to start advertising that.

Quote from: barfolomew on February 07, 2025, 11:43:58 AMOh, St. John's and UConn is on big boy Fox tonight?
I wasn't aware -- FS1 might want to start advertising that.

FS1 marketing dept. suxs

Quote from: wadesworld on February 07, 2025, 11:01:37 AM#worried

Concerned

https://x.com/GrahamDoeren/status/1888591485794193599?t=n5i0VApqHxPF4rualcaU9Q&s=19

You can't start trending back up in the right direction without first trending down!

Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on February 09, 2025, 10:37:04 AMhttps://x.com/GrahamDoeren/status/1888591485794193599?t=n5i0VApqHxPF4rualcaU9Q&s=19

You can't start trending back up in the right direction without first trending down!

Good, another shot at UConn

Quote from: Uncle Rico on February 09, 2025, 10:38:19 AMGood, another shot at UConn

And Michigan State.

Quote from: The Sultan on February 09, 2025, 10:41:55 AMAnd Michigan State.

That's a problem.  Shaka can't beat Big Ten teams

https://x.com/haslametrics/status/1888616032299880935?t=rNxZwqW7yezWtmCkEjyEbA&s=19

Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on February 09, 2025, 10:37:04 AMhttps://x.com/GrahamDoeren/status/1888591485794193599?t=n5i0VApqHxPF4rualcaU9Q&s=19

You can't start trending back up in the right direction without first trending down!

🎉🥳

Quote from: The Sultan on February 09, 2025, 10:41:55 AMAnd Michigan State.

And George Mason. (I thought first-round rematches against teams you play in the regular season was verboten, but whatevs.)

While I really want MU to get a protected seed and play in an arena lots of our fans can get to relatively easy ... if we do happen to be a 5-seed or worse, I'd accept MU playing in Seattle as a consolation prize.

Wisconsin and Purdue with higher seeds than MU. How far will we fall?

Quote from: willie warrior on February 09, 2025, 06:09:05 PMWisconsin and Purdue with higher seeds than MU. How far will we fall?

To play in game

Quote from: Newsdreams on February 09, 2025, 06:26:50 PMTo play in game

If we're lucky.

Ah. We found the reason Shaka scheduled the Dayton game.

Quote from: The Sultan on February 09, 2025, 06:30:23 PMAh. We found the reason Shaka scheduled the Dayton game.

Chess, not checkers.

Quote from: wadesworld on February 09, 2025, 06:31:03 PMChess, not checkers.

3 D chess

Four Big East Teams in the Top 25 in the USA Today Coaches Poll

Marquette is at #11 in Gary Parish's CBS Top 25 and 1 Poll

18 in AP Poll according to Ben Steele on X

Quote from: MarquetteMike1977 on February 10, 2025, 12:06:15 PM18 in AP Poll according to Ben Steele on X

Wow. Can't believe the voters got this as wrong as they did.

Quote from: MU82 on February 09, 2025, 02:41:29 PMAnd George Mason. (I thought first-round rematches against teams you play in the regular season was verboten, but whatevs.)

While I really want MU to get a protected seed and play in an arena lots of our fans can get to relatively easy ... if we do happen to be a 5-seed or worse, I'd accept MU playing in Seattle as a consolation prize.

A MU buddy said he thought we could not be scheduled for the March 21-23 games because we host at Fiserv on those days. Is that a thing? It was something I had not heard of.

If so, that leaves Denver, Providence, Lexington and Wichita as locations we can be placed. Since I already have tickets for Denver I am not opposed to us being sent out there.

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Pleasantly surprised to see us at #18. But I'm even more surprised to see UConn become unranked after handily beating #11 on the road and losing a relatively close game to #12 St John's. You'd think they'd stay more or less in the same place.

Regardless I'm glad to see it. It hardly matters but their 53-week streak of consecutive ranked appearances is over, which means we just moved up to fifth place in that ladder.

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 10, 2025, 12:39:22 PMA MU buddy said he thought we could not be scheduled for the March 21-23 games because we host at Fiserv on those days. Is that a thing? It was something I had not heard of.

If so, that leaves Denver, Providence, Lexington and Wichita as locations we can be placed. Since I already have tickets for Denver I am not opposed to us being sent out there.

I don't know.