And of course the best one-two punch in the conference – Harris and Sims.

he said that his team needs to play like a big 10 team in order to beat Wake Forest….I wonder if ESPN enjoyed that tid-bit.

…and I’ve been listening to sports radio from Cincinnati. At the news break every half hour the lead story is that the Big East got 7 teams into the NCAA. WOW!
But not a mention of the Big Ten’s seven teams.

They promote the heck out of the Big East because they get all Big East games.

Says the ACC and Big East are “far and away” superior conferences, and we shouldnt have this many teams in the field

I can watch the Gopher games by buying the Direct TV Mega March Madness for $69. But I may only see one game. Pretty pricey. I doubt the Big Ten Channel will carry it. Do you suppose it will be on JustinTV? Or ESPN? Or CBS? Just wondering how you guys plan to watch the game. Living in Kentucky and being a Gopher’s fan makes it tough.

Pitt, Uconn and Louisville = the real deal

The rest of the big east is either much like the big ten in terms of potential or much worse. Villanova is vastly overrated…If you watch villanova this tournament please pay attention to the fact that they take horrible shots and that Scottie Reynolds turns the ball over far too much for a point guard…and what’s worse is that Jay Wright NEVER holds him accountable.

Marquette is much more respectable than villanova. But, with the injury to James they are merely as good as Ohio State.

West Virginia is much like Big 10 teams…they play great D and are respectable offensively.

But, there is far too much hype for Syracuse…they have Routins and Flynn…except for them there team is not that good. There best win in the big east until the conference tournament was against WVU at home. They beat Memphis in the non-conference, but memphis would destroy syracuse now. You must also keep in mind that they have always played great at madison square garden, but they do not fare so well in the tourney BECAUSE they play bad defense. And, considering Devendorf’s continuous punkish actions in the conference tournament (screaming into the stands, posing after shots) confirms my original belief about Jim Boeheim’s basketball teams….they are allowed to be immature and unaccountable.

I will admit that the big east is very excellent at the top (PItt, Uconn, Louisville) but they have like 15 teams…or is it 16 teams, I forget. They are always going to have a good and very deep conference….the big 10 had one weak link this year…indiana….the big east had four weak teams….rutgers, seton hall, st. johns, s.florida. (note: half of syracuse’s wins in conference play came from the beforementioned teddy bears.

All Suck. So does Rutgers, SH, SF, st.johns and Providence. Oops, I now forgot DePaul. The Big East has so many teams it seems to be a magic trick to remember them all.

Your Conference wins are as followed:

Seton Hall = once
DePaul = once
ND = once
Cincy = once
SF = once
Rutgers = once
GTOWN = once
St. Johns = once
WVU = once
Marquette = once

I was mistaken before, you never beat Providence. I misspoke. I apologize for my incompetence. Syracuse, in fact, lost to Providence by 6 points; a game that was more like a blowout until a late run to make the score look respectable. The Orange beat Marquette in the final game of the year, which means they were without Dominic James, but more importantly they were playing without much confidence.

Your conference losses are as followed:

Louisville = Loss by ten points at home
Uconn = loss by fourteen points (Dyson played only five minutes)
PItt = loss by 18
Providence = I believe we have covered this one
Villanova = loss by 3 at home (Villanova also had control of the entire game)
                     loss by 17 at Villanova
Georgetown = loss by 14 points

Your total record = 11-7 with only one quality win…against WVU at home. Marquette would have been a quality win, but please refer to my earlier displayed FACTS. And, considering your Syracuse squad needed overtime to squirm around Marquette raises more clouds than sunny galore.

As for your conference tournament, you beat uconn in six overtimes, which I should mention was without them having jerome dyson. You also beat WVU because your team was playing out of their mind. But, that does in now way qualify Syracuse as the better team. And, like I have said before, Syracuse tends to always play well in NY.
 
As for Non-conference play—

You beat Memphis when Memphis wasn’t very good.

You beat Kansas when they were still finding themselves.

You beat florida…but who really cares…florida sucks.

Just like MN is overrated due to their Lousiville win, Syracuse is overrated due to their conference reputation and ignorant non-conference wins. Do not ever make the mistake of comparing Syracuse to Uconn, Louisville, Pitt or WVU in terms of quality basketball or respectable basketball. And, do not ever compare Syracuse with Uconn, Louisville or Pitt in terms of the potential or ability to advance in the NCAA tournament.

Have fun watching your Orange dissapoint you. Except for Routins and Flynn your team is full of punks…and sooner or later they will lose as punks. And, don’t ever say Devendorf is a better player than Routins, because he is not on the same planet as Routins…Devendorf is a punk player who cherry-picks and plays no defense at all. Routins is fundamental in everything. Devendorf may be a skilled athlete, but that does not mean he is a good player.

I apologize so deeply for not crystalizing my points earlier. When Syracuse gets bullied in the tourney (either in the second or third round) I will say:

WHAT HAPPENED?….I THOUGHT DEVENDORF WOULD LEAD THEM TO THE SHIP!