I thought the Big East performed pretty much how I thought they would. Seton Hall was emotionally drained from their BE tourney run and looked to have run into a Zags team playing at a pretty high level. Providence and Butler ran into really good UNC and UVA teams. I thought Butler played pretty well even though they lost. The BE could have used Xavier getting into the sweet 16. X struggled to get the game to their style. Wisconsin is the team that wanted the game in the 60's. X didn't execute well down the stretch and Koenig hit some big shots.
I also wanted to comment on the UNI collapse. We all thought Creighton blowing a double digit lead with a couple minutes left was bad, but is nowhere near the UNI up 12 w/ 40 some seconds left with a sweet 16 birth on the line. A lot of people were killing Coach Mac for that collapse. Are those same people thinking less of Ben Jacobson today? What about Dana? His Oregon team blew a 7 point with 27 seconds left vs AZ in the Pac 12 tourney semi-final (AZ missed a FT w/ no time left to win, OR eventually won in OT).
I also wanted to comment on the UNI collapse. We all thought Creighton blowing a double digit lead with a couple minutes left was bad, but is nowhere near the UNI up 12 w/ 40 some seconds left with a sweet 16 birth on the line. A lot of people were killing Coach Mac for that collapse. Are those same people thinking less of Ben Jacobson today? What about Dana? His Oregon team blew a 7 point with 27 seconds left vs AZ in the Pac 12 tourney semi-final (AZ missed a FT w/ no time left to win, OR eventually won in OT).
