The Big East Tournament

[otis]

I would appreciate if someone would explain the format of the Big East Tournament.

Does everyone qualify?

Which teams get first wound byes?

Thanks

 

[ccnobz]

7 vs 10 and 8 vs 9 on Wednesday night

Top 6 get a buy into Thursday

Everyone makes it.

 

[thetux1]

Top 6 get a single bye. 8 vs 9 and 7 vs 10 on Wed setting up qtr finals on Thursday

 

[sookjo]

7th seed plays 10th
8th seed plays 9th

There will be 8 teams left after these games.

 

[BrookJersey Redmen]

can you imagine only one day session after the recent years with multiple day night doubleheaders, the bars and restaurants around the Garden must hate this new format.

 

[tom in salem]

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...2013-14/misc_non_event/tournament-bracket.pdf

 

[Moose]

can you imagine only one day session after the recent years with multiple day night doubleheaders, the bars and restaurants around the Garden must hate this new format.

The bars and the restaurants are just fine. Now that the construction is over the Garden again takes its place as the busiest arena in the country and they will continue to reap the benefits. A couple games is a blip on the radar for them

 

[Jack Williams]

Of course this will change from now until the end of the year, but if the tournament started today, it would look like this:


Wednesday (opening round)

#7 Georgetown VS #10 Butler

#8 Seton Hall vs #9 DePaul



Thursday (quarterfinals)


#1 Creighton VS Seton Hall/DePaul

#2 Nova VS GTOWN/Butler

#3 Xavier VS #6 Providence

#4 Marquette VS #5 St John's

 

[westchesterjoe]

can you imagine only one day session after the recent years with multiple day night doubleheaders, the bars and restaurants around the Garden must hate this new format.

This wouldn't happen if Bloomberg was still Mayor..

 

[1and1sju]

can you imagine only one day session after the recent years with multiple day night doubleheaders, the bars and restaurants around the Garden must hate this new format.

The bars and the restaurants are just fine. Now that the construction is over the Garden again takes its place as the busiest arena in the country and they will continue to reap the benefits. A couple games is a blip on the radar for them

Have the games sold out yet though?

 

[ccnobz]

can you imagine only one day session after the recent years with multiple day night doubleheaders, the bars and restaurants around the Garden must hate this new format.

The bars and the restaurants are just fine. Now that the construction is over the Garden again takes its place as the busiest arena in the country and they will continue to reap the benefits. A couple games is a blip on the radar for them

George Willis in the Post made that point today, that the local bars/restaurants are upset there is only 1 day session. Not sure how accurate that is.

 

[Moose]

can you imagine only one day session after the recent years with multiple day night doubleheaders, the bars and restaurants around the Garden must hate this new format.

The bars and the restaurants are just fine. Now that the construction is over the Garden again takes its place as the busiest arena in the country and they will continue to reap the benefits. A couple games is a blip on the radar for them

George Willis in the Post made that point today, that the local bars/restaurants are upset there is only 1 day session. Not sure how accurate that is.

There are enough alcoholics for them the other 364 days of the year.

 

[Marillac]

This is not an easy conference to win...wow. Barring any major upsets, if you finish THIRD in the conference you have to play a bubble team round one, a top ten RPI team round two, and a top Ten RPI team in the Championship.

 

[ras]

The BE gets underestimated because we don't have the Marque names at the top. But this is a deep conference top to bottom. Take DePaul and Butler out of the equation everyone else is tough.