Although some coaches have confidence in locking in eight or nine teams, the losses for the sixteen-team conference may not secure many places for the NCAA Tournament, due to various teams having trouble winning both away games and at home. They’ll be lucky if six teams reach the tournament.

The conferences losing streak started when DePaul lost against Bradley on the 11th of November and lost by double digits to Northwestern. Just two nights later Notre Dame lost at home to Butler. St. John’s, which was ranked to be in the middle of the Big East, was knocked down by a slackly Maryland and one night after were defeated by a rookie Texas. Seton Hall and the Rutgers both lost to teams in the bottom half of the Ivy League. To top it off one the Top Ten National Teams, being Georgetown, lost at home to Villanova and Old Dominion.

Most teams are trying to improve overall for the conference, as Georgetown is looking for a guard to side up with Jonathan Wallace and West Virginia, Cincinnati and South Florida are all undefeated.

Hopefully the Big East will do better for the rest of the 2006-07 season and therefore lock a good number of teams.

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