It has been interesting watching Big East games today. Overtimes and physical play ruled the day. Looking at these teams from the eye of "we need to move conferences" is a bit sobering. Not sure if we could that we should. That is a big leap in talent and physicality. Full arenas with rabid fans.

Butler is going to have to upgrade. Their kids hung in there but got physically punished.. Nova is big and bad and well coached. .

Still can t hardly watch G TOwn as their style of play drives me nuts. Depaul is and someone we would beat handily along with some of the other bottom dwellers. 

X is not in school but their student section was packed as was most of the arena. I think we would give X and St Johns a pretty good game though Stain is becoming a space eater and the X and St Johns guards are pretty good.

Big East goes pretty far west. Creighton has been tough. Marquette muddies up the game with their physicality. I have been wanting to see how they did with the new rules. They are very athletic and beat teams up last year. Not much in the way of ball skills or shooting skills.. Not sure if McDermott can hold them off down the stretch without a little help. They have had a good showing with the defense. Their D is pretty dialed in as a team. COntribuitions from others around the arc are impressive as Marquette brings 3 to McD.

The Blue Jay home crowd is very impressive. Turned out and BLUE. I looked and looked and do not see one sign of a red shirt or a giant N from the state school. Really happy to see that the BIG fans out that way do not find it necessary to display their colors on game night at the arena of another game they are attending. Same with Butler at Hinkle....no Red or Gold/Black in the crowd.

Not really trying to accomplish anything but found the day in the new Big East interesting to see how it is shaking out and wondered how we look in comparison. I like the MAC for now. We just need to get to dominating it instead of just being competitive

It's still a shock not to see Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Connecticut among others in this league. Without the football thing hanging over the league, it will probably be better in some ways, but it will never be the same for sure.

In a way it's kind of a moot point, because I don't think Ohio is leaving the MAC to go anywhere...

But for the sake of discussion...while I agree, borna, that we are not ready for the Big East in terms of competition or attendance, there are other conferences in between...like the Atlantic 10 and the Missouri Valley. It wouldn't be as much of stretch to see Ohio being competitive and successful in those two leagues both on the court and in attendance.

Now that several other MAC teams have decided to up their efforts to make their basketball programs competitive I don't think we will need to go anywhere.  For selfish reasons I would love to see us jump to the MVC but I know that's not going to happen ever because football is just too important to many people.  But the league has made what appears to be several good coaching hires and the conference appears to be coming back from the dead. As Big Willy says, the only attractive realistic options aren't that attractive. 

Seems like X is going back to the ways of old for this season. Tough inside with timely shooting rather than relying solely on the playmaking ability of one or two guys. Christon is a great guard, not as quick as Holloway or Lyons were, but he kind of reminds me of Romain Sato. And anything is possible inside with Stainbrook and Philmore.