The Big East tournament has been held in Madison Square Garden every year since 1983, the longest-running show in college hoops. While being excluded from \u201cPower 5\u201d status, the conference is currently ranked second in my system and is going to be well-represented in the NCAA tournament. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t use more publicity. <\/p>\n
Villanova has been one of the most anonymous great teams in recent memory, however there’s rational explanation for this. They have a very balanced offense that doesn\u2019t feature a go-to guy, and they don\u2019t have a player highly placed on mock draft boards. And even though they dominated Big East play, finishing 16-2, the Wildcats aren\u2019t overwhelming favorites here because of the collection of teams between 20 and 40 in my rankings. <\/p>\n
Plus, St. John\u2019s gets home-court advantage, although they may not get as much of a boost as they do for a regular-season Big East game. The Red Storm has only won the tournament three times at MSG and their last title came in 2000.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s almost no bid drama going on here. The Big East is projected to send six of its teams to the dance, and Xavier is currently the lowest projected seed with a nine. It would take one of the bottom four seeds to steal a bid, and their collective chances are about 1%. <\/p>\n
Big East<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n All-kenpom.com:<\/strong> Daniel Ochefu, Villanova (kPOY); Darrun Hilliard, Villanova; Kris Dunn, Providence; JayVaughn Pinkston, Villanova; D\u2019Vauntes Smith-Rivera, Georgetown.<\/p>\n March 11-14 at St. John\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Big East tournament has been held in Madison Square Garden every year since 1983, the longest-running show in college hoops. While being excluded from \u201cPower 5\u201d status, the conference is currently ranked second in my system and is going to be well-represented in the NCAA tournament. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t use more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Qtrs Semis Final Champ\n 1 Villanova 100 91.7 67.5 51.7\n 2 Georgetown 100 80.3 42.1 13.8\n 5 St. John's 100 66.1 23.0 13.6\n 3 Butler 100 53.6 29.5 9.5\n 6 Xavier 100 46.4 24.0 7.1\n 4 Providence 100 33.9 7.7 3.3\n10 Creighton 65.2 14.9 3.7 0.5\n 8 Seton Hall 60.1 5.7 1.3 0.4\n 9 Marquette 39.9 2.6 0.4 0.08\n 7 DePaul 34.8 4.8 0.7 0.06\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"