Big "Least" .....It could be

[psprowler]

For all that work I can think of two pretty big ones right of the top of my head you forgot. West Virginia over Purdue and St.JOhns pretty easily over Duke. Seton Hall and Providence both beat SEC West winner Alabama but that doesn't matter a whole buncy.

[Tim_T]

For all that work I can think of two pretty big ones right of the top of my head you forgot. West Virginia over Purdue and St.JOhns pretty easily over Duke. Seton Hall and Providence both beat SEC West winner Alabama but that doesn't matter a whole buncy.

That doesn't count in his eyes! LOL great job kyfanatic, well researched! Alabama? Isn't that the team that SEC fans argued should have been in the tournament.

[elnutsmalljaws]

That doesn't count in his eyes! LOL great job kyfanatic, well researched! Alabama? Isn't that the team that SEC fans argued should have been in the tournament.

Maybe Alabama should have been in the tournament. They could have taken the place of about 5 or 6 Big East teams and did just as good or better than the BE teams showed. With Florida State beating the Irish out of Notre Dame right now, the Big East talk of being the Best Conference in America for the SECOND year in a row has been SQUASHED by outside competition. Mediocre conference that pulled the wool over peoples eyes all year long and made them think by beating each other made them the best conference. Florida State up 13 with 5 minutes to go in the first half, REALLY????? I sure do hope the 11 seed Marquette, that took out Syracuse, and 3 seed UCONN can do something in their next game. You have 2 teams that finished 9th and 11th in the regular season of the Big East still alive (barring a comeback by ND) Both will be underdogs in their games. Imagine that, 2 teams left (barring a comeback by Notre Dame), in the Sweet 16 and both will be underdogs to the teams they are playing. Maybe next year they won't have a tournament and will just hand the national title over to whoever wins the Big East. The Big East fans will spin it around and say that the conference is so good that the 9th and 11th ranked teams were the reason the conference was so good, its depth. The other side could say the top 8 teams got beat and sent packing before the Sweet 16. Since this is the SECOND year in a row that they have flat out been DEMOLISHED and showed their true colors of being an OVERRATED CONFERENCE. 1 year could be a fluke but 2 in a row is a Pattern. If you can't finish the regular season in the top half of your conference standings, then you don't deserve to be in the tournament.

[elnutsmalljaws]

Notre Dame down 23 to Florida State with 12 minutes left in the game is just like the "Claim" of the Big East being the best conference. Both can be summed up by the late Lipton Tea Dallas Cowboy Dandy Don Meredith as he sang on Monday Night Football, "Turn out the lights the party's over"

[know1]

Both Big East teams in the Sweet 16 got there by beating other Big East teams in the tournament. Just sayin...

[Fishin is life]

From top to bottom the Big East is probably the best conference in america.....But as others have said they just don't have that elite team this year....Any team can beat any other team on any given day and that's what makes us all love this time of year so much....The parody(sp) in college basketball is so great today that atleast half the teams that maek the tournament can get hot and win the whole thing...It's all about playing your best at the right time....Let's face the facts, John Wooden isn't going to lead the Bruins onto the court ever again....

With all of that said, you have to call a spade a spade....THE BIG YEAST HAS FAILED TO RISE in the 2011 NCAA tournament

[psprowler]

With all of that said, you have to call a spade a spade....THE BIG YEAST HAS FAILED TO RISE in the 2011 NCAA tournament

I can get on board with this comment.

[elnutsmalljaws]

From top to bottom the Big East is probably the best conference in america.....But as others have said they just don't have that elite team this year....Any team can beat any other team on any given day and that's what makes us all love this time of year so much....The parody(sp) in college basketball is so great today that atleast half the teams that maek the tournament can get hot and win the whole thing...It's all about playing your best at the right time....Let's face the facts, John Wooden isn't going to lead the Bruins onto the court ever again....

With all of that said, you have to call a spade a spade....THE BIG YEAST HAS FAILED TO RISE in the 2011 NCAA tournament

I agree with that, "Big Yeast has failed to rise" is CLASSIC. Sombody pass me a yeast roll from Chili's or some Sourdogh toast from Cracker Barrel (with extra Strawberry Jelly of course). Big Yeast is far better than Big Least, but both are fitting