(11-13-2015 05:37 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote:  

(11-13-2015 04:23 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  

(11-13-2015 03:27 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote:  

(11-13-2015 02:13 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(11-13-2015 01:41 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote:  I never said that. BE had some good years, but any league that has UNC and Duke trumps all others.

Too Late! You already admitted it by your earlier post!

You misinterpreted my post then.

We all know it's true. How many times did the ACC produce 3 #1 seeds in the same year? NC & Duke are the top brands but the BE was far deeper. UCONN finished 9th in the BE & still went on to win the national championship, that couldn't have happened in the ACC but maybe it could today.

3 #1 seeds is nice, but that's not even the most impressive thing the BE has done. 3 teams in the Final Four is far better.

The year the BE had 3 #1 seeds, who won the national title? It wasn't a BE team. It was an ACC team.

Are you saying that whichever league has the national championship winner is the best league, because they had the national championship winner? If so, does that also apply to the AAC, the year that UConn won the national championship in 2013? If that's the case, you might as well claim that the ACC was the best fb conference when FSU won the national championship too.

No one is taking anything away from the ACC for having the best 2 teams of any league which was Duke/UNC. I agree with that. But no other league, from 2005 til 2012 had a group of top quality teams like this:

UConn
Louisville,
Syracuse
Georgetown
Villanova
Marquette
Cincy
Pitt

Then adding other regular or semi regular tourney teams like:

West Virginia
Notre Dame
St Johns


That's the kind of depth that allowed the BE to regularly get 8-11(Even the ACC since 2013 has yet to reach those numbers) tourney teams in the NCAA Tourney and win the most tourney credits, most final fours and Elite Eights and #1 seeds.

That is not what I said. I was speaking about a specific year that the BE had 3 #1 seeds. Yeah that's great and all but you didn't win anything. The Big East was awesome the last few years and was better than the ACC. Overall history favors the ACC with titles, Final Four appearances, etc.

(11-13-2015 11:26 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote:  That is not what I said. I was speaking about a specific year that the BE had 3 #1 seeds. Yeah that's great and all but you didn't win anything. The Big East was awesome the last few years and was better than the ACC. Overall history favors the ACC with titles, Final Four appearances, etc.

Not every year is going to be a title year---which isn't to say it won't be a season of milestones. For instance, that season you reference: the Big East set records for # of teams in, # of teams in the S16 (I think the ACC tied it last year), and the # of E8 teams.

The Big East WAS the SEC of hoops back in those halcyon days!

agreed Crimsonelf...hopefully the new ACC can come close