What if...the Big East had stayed together in 2013?

[East Coast Mustang]

What a basketball conference we could have been in...there were seven non-football members of the old Big East, what if we'd had a 9-team football conference (with Navy FB only), left Tulane/Tulsa/ECU out, and sacrificed the not-too-important AAC champ game in football? Imagine this basketball conference:

SMU
UConn
Cincinnati
Houston
UCF
USF
Memphis
Temple
Villanova
Georgetown
St. John's
Providence
Marquette
Seton Hall
DePaul


Damn.

[LA_Mustang]

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[blackoutpony]

Add Tulsa as a full member and ECU and Air Force as FB only to get to 16 and 12 and that would've been cool.

[LA_Mustang]

What really pisses me off about the Big East is that the media gives them so much respect and gives the AAC none. Granted the bottom of our league is a huge anchor at the moment but I'd love to see our top 6 play their top 6 head-to-head:

SMU vs. Nova
Cincy vs. Butler
UH vs. Creighton
UCF vs. Seton Hall
Memphis vs. Providence
UConn vs. Marquette

I wish Aresco would make this happen.

[gostangs]

Hard to extrapolate from single game match ups, but it will be VERY interesting to see how strong the BE really is come tourney time. I am not sure Butler vs Providence really tells you much.

[SMU Section F]

What really pisses me off about the Big East is that the media gives them so much respect and gives the AAC none. Granted the bottom of our league is a huge anchor at the moment but I'd love to see our top 6 play their top 6 head-to-head:

SMU vs. Nova
Cincy vs. Butler
UH vs. Creighton
UCF vs. Seton Hall
Memphis vs. Providence
UConn vs. Marquette

I wish Aresco would make this happen.

I'd absolutely love to see those matchups, but - in all fairness - the lack of an ESPN deal has really damaged media exposure for the Big East. It's a very common complaint among Big East Fans.

[Pony ^]

lotta bids most years in that league

[SMU Section F]

lotta bids most years in that league

Well, they're a really good league.

[Pony ^]

lotta bids most years in that league

Well, they're a really good league.

saying if we combined.

[SMU Section F]

lotta bids most years in that league

Well, they're a really good league.

saying if we combined.

Misread that. Definitely.

[Digetydog]

What really pisses me off about the Big East is that the media gives them so much respect and gives the AAC none. Granted the bottom of our league is a huge anchor at the moment but I'd love to see our top 6 play their top 6 head-to-head:

SMU vs. Nova
Cincy vs. Butler
UH vs. Creighton
UCF vs. Seton Hall
Memphis vs. Providence
UConn vs. Marquette

I wish Aresco would make this happen.

The AAC probably goes O-fer 6 in those games. Winning 3 would be a great outcome.

[SMU Section F]

What really pisses me off about the Big East is that the media gives them so much respect and gives the AAC none. Granted the bottom of our league is a huge anchor at the moment but I'd love to see our top 6 play their top 6 head-to-head:

SMU vs. Nova
Cincy vs. Butler
UH vs. Creighton
UCF vs. Seton Hall
Memphis vs. Providence
UConn vs. Marquette

I wish Aresco would make this happen.

The AAC probably goes O-fer 6 in those games. Winning 3 would be a great outcome.

True.

Cincinnati would definitely have a shot and I'd love to see us take on Villanova. The other four games probably wouldn't even be enjoyable.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

I don't know about that. We definitely hang with Villanova.

[East Coast Mustang]

Also, having the conference tournament every year at MSG would have been awesome

[sadderbudweiser]

Here's what I like about the Big East:

https://youtu.be/04E1JIabCF8