Arrr! Dan Hurley be cryin' like a landlubber 'bout the lack o' Big East teams in March Madness! Aye, matey!
2024-03-24
Arrr mateys, only three ships from the Big East be makin' the tourney, and by Davy Jones' beard, all of 'em be sailin' to the Sweet 16! Methinks that scallywag Hurley be cryin' foul, claimin' the committee made a blunder of the grandest proportion! Aye, the seas be rough indeed!
Dan Hurley be wantin' everyone to know that the Big East was robbed, mateys. After seein' the performances of his conference compared to others, the UConn head coach be sayin' he ain't pleased with the committee's decision to leave out Big East teams like St. John’s and Seton Hall. "Look what we’ve done in non-conference games. Seton Hall bested us by 15. We’ve won eight-straight in this tournament, all by significant margins, but they were good enough to best us, they were good enough to best Marquette. There should have been five or six Big East teams in this tournament," Hurley said after UConn moved on to the Sweet 16 on Sunday.Only three Big East teams made the NCAA Tournament, and all of them have moved on to the Sweet 16. UConn, Marquette, and Creighton be a one-, two-, and three-seed, respectively, in the tournament, but the conference couldn’t crack the field of 68 anywhere else. Before the NCAA tournament, fans argued that at least a couple other Big East programs should have made it. The Red Storm and Seton Hall be justified, with the Red Storm bein' the highest KenPom-rated team to miss the tournament. When Virginia got blown out in the First Four, it sure seemed like Hurley had a point, sayin' other big conferences have "underperformed." UConn be facin' No. 5 San Diego State in the next round, a rematch of last year's national championship, arrrrr!