The Old Big East – Then and Now

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

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Big East Conference (1979–2013) – Wikipedia

Some of your fellow conference colleagues are raking in P5 football money, but departing the Big East conference has not helped their basketball programs.

Final 2013 RPI Rankings – Warren Nolan - April 2013

2. Louisville
10. Syracuse
39. Notre Dame
46. Pittsburgh
47. Connecticut
49. Cincinnati

110. Rutgers
150. South Florida

RPI Rankings – UDPride – games through Saturday December 14, 2019

24. Louisville
62. Rutgers
65. Cincinnati
68. Pittsburgh
73. Connecticut

101. Syracuse
170. Notre Dame
246. South Florida

Rutgers presently has a better RPI ranking than in April 2013, but the other seven OBE schools presently have a worse RPI ranking.

[kayako]

No Boston College? Also West Virginia and few others missing, but reality is only Syracuse, BC, and Pitt's been around long enough to matter to anyone. Really it's probably just Syracuse.

[Jet915]

Basketball has definitely suffered for those teams that jumped to the ACC.

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

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Big East Conference (1979–2013) – Wikipedia

No Boston College? Also West Virginia and few others missing, but reality is only Syracuse, BC, and Pitt's been around long enough to matter to anyone. Really it's probably just Syracuse.

In my first post, I deliberately excluded the schools who left the OLD BE prior to the 2013 football/basketball split, but I have included four of them below.

RPI Rankings – UDPride – games through Sunday December 15, 2019

3. West Virginia
8. Villanova
16. Butler
21. Marquette
22. Louisville
25. Georgetown

48. Xavier

64. Pittsburgh
65. Rutgers
68. DePaul
69. Cincinnati
78. Connecticut
79. Creighton
96. Seton Hall

100. Syracuse
114. Virginia Tech
117. St. John's
120. Boston College
180. Notre Dame

215. Providence
216. South Florida

Seton Hall Edges Villanova For Top Spot In Coaches’ Preseason Poll – Big East Conference [Media Day] – October 10, 2019

2019-20 Preseason Coaches’ Poll

1. Seton Hall (5) . 77
2. Villanova (5) .. 76
3. Xavier ………….. 52
T4. Marquette ... 50
T4. Providence .. 50
6. Georgetown .. 49
7. Creighton ……. 45
8. Butler …………. 21
9. St. John’s ……. 19
10. DePaul ………. 11

(First-place votes in parentheses.)

No kudos for the Big East coaches’ predictions this season.

Ya really gotta feel for the Friars fans this season. The good folks in South Bend can’t be too happy either.