Around the Big East

[hardytime]

I like Holloway, but man does he come with excuses and blame everyone but himself. He was complaining this summer when he missed out on recruits blaming NIL. Now he's blaming his players after his first bad loss. If you get out recruited or your players or not prepared, that falls on the coaching staff.

He called out two specific players for apparently telling the trainer they couldn’t play.

 

[NCJohnnie]

UCONN outrebounded Iowa State 48-19, a pretty incredible stat. Looks like UCONN legitimately goes 9 deep.

 

[Eric]

Uconn has definitely impressed for sure.

 

[Amaseinyourface]

4 chances at top 10ish teams seams alright. Would be great if a couple others got into the top 30 or so.

 

[Notanalum]

UConn is very dangerous. It seems like everyone that plays can score, rebound and pass. Balanced is an understatement.

Let’s see if the freshman can keep this up all season. Outside of injury I think that’s the biggest ? For them

 

[Amaseinyourface]

UConn is very dangerous. It seems like everyone that plays can score, rebound and pass. Balanced is an understatement.

Let’s see if the freshman can keep this up all season. Outside of injury I think that’s the biggest ? For them

The freshmen looks unbelievably good. And he’s backing up the best player in the BE IMO. Havnt been the biggest Jackson fan but if he can play consistently in sort of that point forward facilitator role, with the rest of the scorers and shooters around them, then why couldn’t they make a FF run? Uconn is toughest team for me to root for in BE but think they’re gonna carry the torch this year.

 

[Andrew]

The freshmen looks unbelievably good. And he’s backing up the best player in the BE IMO. Havnt been the biggest Jackson fan but if he can play consistently in sort of that point forward facilitator role, with the rest of the scorers and shooters around them, then why couldn’t they make a FF run? Uconn is toughest team for me to root for in BE but think they’re gonna carry the torch this year.

The Creighton/UCONN games could be top 10 matchups.

 

[paultzman]

 

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[paultzman]

A win at ISU would be a big plus considering meh ooc schedule. FSU was not SJ’s fault with all their injuries, but ISU is an opportunity game imo.

 

[Moon Mullen]

We received one vote in the AP poll this week, I am sure if we go 2-0 this week
we could double our vote total in the AP poll.

 

[Fizzy]

The guy who gave us the 25th vote was on whatever OBJ was on yesterday...

 

[SJU61982]

Here's the vote:

Andrew Kahn at College Poll Tracker

collegepolltracker.com

 

[L J S A]

The guy who gave us the 25th vote was on whatever OBJ was on yesterday...

I thought his poll was pretty reasonable actually. Wasn't afraid to put teams where they actually belong based on performance this year and not past reputation.

 

[Johnny Rapper]

Wow….Marquette up by 20 (34-14) in the first half over 6th ranked Baylor. Shaka can coach and Marquette is no slouch. Another challenge for the Johnnies.

 

[Jack Williams]

Big win for the conference if Marquette can pull this off

 

[Johnny Rapper]

Big win for the conference if Marquette can pull this off

Agree Jack, after the Big East’s poor showing against the Big Ten, these games against the Big 12 could be very valuable come tourney time.

 

[SJU61982]

Marquette only lost by 5 at Purdue, so that's aged well, too.

I think, along with us, they are the team most likely to jump their standing in somewhat of a down league this year.

 

[NCJohnnie]

Marquette was the only Big East team besides DePaul I hadn’t seen play. They look very good tonight.