Mullins shot for UConn best ever

 Yes it was the greatest end of game ever.

After 3 Decades of my ACC Fans On Top; My Big East Has a Chance Again

 So these ACC comparisons have gotten me in trouble since as a grade schooler in the heart of ACC country and decided I liked the Marquette coach Al McGuire and was pulling for them against the ACC champ UNC for the 1977 title. That carried over when I went to Marquette and then they joined the Big East.

So I'm quick to point out when the Big East has the edge on the ACC, fully acknowledging that the ACC over history has been the greatest basketball conference. But the Big East has had the edge the last several years, as pointed out in my little graphic of tournament wins per conference team over the past several years. The ACC was back on top by far form 2015-2017, but has slipped behind since then. We will see what happens in the future but I have to grab my moments.

But since 90% of my classmates and friends are ACC fans I fully acknowledge they dominated for three decades and just happy to have a chance for my alma Marquette’s conference the Big East to have a chance again to be the best for the first time since the 1980s 😊. The best by decade:

1970s Pac--8

1980s Big East

1990s ACC

2000s ACC

2010s ACC

2020s Big East has a chance again :-)

Hottest 20 Teams in Last Week of Regular Season

 

See the rest of this article from this CBS 247 site, outlining details on the 20 best teams this past week.

 

Best Week	Team	Star for the Week
1	Duke	Carlos Boozer
2	UCLA	Donovan Dent
3	St. Mary's	Mikey Lewis
4	Arizona	Tobe Awaka
4	Florida	Thomas Haugh
4	Wisconsin	John Blackwell
7	Georgia	Kanon Catchings
8	Marquette	Nigel James Jr
8	Michigan	Yaxel Lendeborg
10	TCU	Xavier Edmonds
11	Arkansas	Darius Acuff
11	Oklahoma	Xzayvier Brown
13	Louisville	Ryan Conwell
13	Tennessee	Amari Evans
15	Houston	Chase McCarty
15	Texas A&M	Rashaun Agee
17	Villanova	Tyler Perkins
17	Boise State	Drew Fielder
19	Illinois	David Mirkovic
20	Alabama	Aden Holloway

4 Youngest Teams: Marquette, Penn State, Colorado, Arkansas

Read this piece on John Dodds' CBS247 Sports blog spelling out the youngest power conference teams in the country.

4 Youngest Power Conference Teams:

Penn State (18.85 years old)

Colorado (18.93)

Arkansas (19.07) 

Marquette (19.29)

As we get prepared to report from Madison Square Garden and the Big East Tournament Wednesday, the headline of this one was Pudner: Marquette's win over Providence was impressive/ analytics say MU could have beaten many teams on Wed.

Only Duke or Michigan Would Have Beaten Marquette on Wednesday. MU's average age in 19.29 yrs old, one of the youngest teams in The Big East.

Only Duke or Michigan Would Have Beaten Marquette on Wednesday.  A calculation of Marquette's Net rating if it were based only on Wednesday's incredible performance comes out to +38. That means their play that night would project to a 38-point win against an average Division I team.

Read the rest of the story at Dodds on sports, and another story on the monster outing in the game by two freshman guards.

Marquette's Fr. Guards James & Stevens combine for 41pts/11Rebs/6STs in 78 to 56 blowout win over Providence