Jucker Court Basketball Board

Anyone see Blaudschun's article on the reconfigured BE? Take a look at the basketball division we are likely to land in

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The two 9 team divisions would be:

St. John’s, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette, DePaul, Providence, UConn and Temple.

This would be a mini-version of the old Big East with all the Catholic schools playing each other every year, with a series of cross over games as well as having the availability of attracting some high-profile non conference opponents.

The other division would be a min-version of the old Conference USA under the Big East umbrella with Big East television and football money as incentives.

Central Florida, South Florida, Houston, Memphis, SMU, Cincinnati and Tulane would form the core group of the division. Throw in a Xavier, Butler Dayton or George Mason as the other two teams and you have two good two very good basketball divisions. They could all come together at the Big East tournament in New York each March.

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The only thing that would make the close to satisfactory for me would be permanent crossover games with UConn, St. John's, Georgetown and Marquette (assuming the 20-game schedule they are talking about).

By the way, he thinks this round of realignment is over. And he is usually right.