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RedStormNC post=444367 said:
Creighton getting spanked by SIUE in 1st half.  Down by 12, 42-30 @ the half
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That young kid coaching SIU-Edwardsville, Brian Barone is the type of kid we need here.
 
Mean Gene post=444370 said:
RedStormNC post=444367 said:
Creighton getting spanked by SIUE in 1st half.  Down by 12, 42-30 @ the half
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That young kid coaching SIU-Edwardsville, Brian Barone is the type of kid we need here.
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They played Marquette tough in the first game of the season.  Lost by 11, but it was somewhat close most of the way.

Ironically, they've played mostly lousy against low-level teams since then.
 
Seton Hall, coming off a barn-burner against Cal (a high-major that is horrible, and no different than the mid-major cupcakes we competed against recently), was down at the first half to a team I've never heard about today.  Apparently the Hall pulled away in the second half and ended up winning by 13 or something.  One trend I've seen so far is that many of the high-majors incorporating new parts, like us and the Hall, have had several games where we sleepwalk or play down to the competition for extended periods, only to pull it out because of the talent gap.
 
Rob post=444509 said:
Seton Hall, coming off a barn-burner against Cal (a high-major that is horrible, and no different than the mid-major cupcakes we competed against recently), was down at the first half to a team I've never heard about today.  Apparently the Hall pulled away in the second half and ended up winning by 13 or something.  One trend I've seen so far is that many of the high-majors incorporating new parts, like us and the Hall, have had several games where we sleepwalk or play down to the competition for extended periods, only to pull it out because of the talent gap.
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THeir opponent Was Bethune Cookman, one of the historically black colleges and universities.  Bethune is in same conference as Our opponent Miss. Valley State 
 
I'm not good at checking this kind of historical data but wonder when the last time we were 6 games into the regular season and  Depaul was the only undefeated team in the Big East. All I can say is what a difference one less Letaiao means...  
 
Don't know NCJ, but if Javon Freeman-Liberty keeps it up into conf play, he might make 1st team All Big East. 

May be too high but he wasn't even preseason honorable mention.  Think he's going to have a strong year 
 
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NCJohnnie post=444529 said:
I'm not good at checking this kind of historical data but wonder when the last time we were 6 games into the regular season and  Depaul was the only undefeated team in the Big East. All I can say is what a difference one less Letaiao means...  

They are another team with  a bunch of new players, to go with the new staff.  Also, they are getting three additional rotation players, who are getting cleared by the NCAA. They might be better than most have projected.
 
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DePaul, the wrong Vincentian school has the best record 6-0 of any BE team.

Like someone said, the Eagles were disappointed when Jason Garrett was fired so was the BE teams when DePaul fired Dave Leitao.
 
Cupcakes challenging other BE teams, but Yukon and gtown ultimately prevailing
 
Looking at the conference RPI rankings one last time (before we get NET on Monday):

1. SEC
2. Big XII
3. Big East
4. Big Ten
5. Mountain West
6. Pac 12
7. ACC
8. West Coast
9. Southern
10. Atlantic 10

[URL]https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2022/rpi-conference[/URL]

Big East is in a great position at #3.

2. Xavier
22. Marquette
25. Providence
42. Villanova
51. DePaul
60. Creighton
75. Seton Hall
101. UConn
193. St. John's
211. Butler
275. Georgetown

Funny that none of our RPI top 25 teams are in the AP Top 25, and yet our 3 AP Top 25 teams aren't in the RPI top 25. Just goes to show how bad RPI is as a metric, and also how inconsistent AP rankings are this early.

ACC has been awful this year, with only Duke currently ranked.
 
Providence eating into what was a big Texas Tech lead. Now.down 28-23 with 3 minutes in first half. Was 27-15.
 
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