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How many Big East teams make the Sweet 16?

jimotis4heisman;1677625; said:
best conference in basketball? i mean i realize basketball is a game of match ups, yet the conference has more paper tigers than any ive seen in a long time...


Think about it from this perspective. A 16 team league gives the top half of the conference more "easy outs" than in any other conference. It allows everyone to pad their records and, since those easy outs are part of a "power conference, their apr.

None of the Big East's mid level seed survived their first day and even now the higher seeds are struggling also. I really think the Big East is a paper tiger, regardless of the odd year where they get 3 or 4 teams through to the sweet sixteen.
 
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Amazing that the Big East could only get 2 teams into the S16 with as hyped as they were this season - same goes for the Big 12. Just goes to show you how much parity there is this year. But for the Big East to have five teams with seeds ranging from 1-3 in addition to a couple #6s and only get two to the S16 is alarming. Worst performance by any conference by far. Cuse might still go to the F4, but that shouldn't rescue the Big East from the "underachiever" label.
 
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