The Big East was once the behemoth of college basketball.
Every night was a war to win a game but no matter how many of the league’s head coaches want to tell you that this is still the best basketball conference in the country, they are wrong.
Sure, the conference can emerge with the National Champion in either UConn or St. John’s, but there is very little depth behind the top two teams and non-conference play was a disaster for the metrics of the majority of teams.
Big East play started on Saturday in a thriller as Butler topped Providence in double overtime, but the league’s slate of games will be filled with high stakes and low rewards for the Huskies and Red Storm, having to win to avoid resume killing losses for its NCAA Tournament metrics.