#324: Big East Preview

Three Man Weave: College Basketball Podcast

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4.9 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Weave is talking Big East - aka the most fun power conference last year. Will the upper echelon (and Bill Raftery, and John Fanta, and Gus Johnson) continue to provide us with high-level, competitive games? We sure hope so! Will UConn continue to give wedgies to all nonconference foes? What's better: Rick Pitino with a mid-major all-star roster, or Kyle Neptune with a fully loaded one? What about Kim English with a high-upside group? How will Xavier handle all the injuries? And what about the likely bottom four...

The Rundown
(0:10) - Intro, Reviews

(11:24) - Root's Roundup (News and notes, including laughing at the FBI/IARP)

(20:44) - Big East overall (including awards)

(28:11) - Marquette

(34:05) - Creighton

(37:39) - UConn

(41:49) - Villanova

(45:55) - St. John's

(50:16) - Providence

(56:04) - Xavier

(1:00:16) - Georgetown

(1:04:11) - Seton Hall

(1:07:37) - Butler

(1:12:30) - DePaul

(1:17:11) - How many bids? Plus a board bet and a quick Cooley returns to Providence tangent

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the Three Manweave College Basketball podcast.
0:14.1	We are back.
0:15.5	Jim Roots, I'm hosting this week, joined as usual by Kai McKeown and Matt Cox.
0:20.7	This week, we are talking Big East, home of the reigning national champion.
0:26.2	Very excited to get into that.
0:27.7	Also, some very passionate fan bases in this conference that we will surely piss off and stir the pot with.
0:32.8	That's the goal.
0:34.5	Time McEwen, how are you doing on this fine Thursday afternoon?
0:38.3	Jim, I'm doing great.
0:39.5	I am fresh off a basketball game last night.
0:42.6	Fun thing.
0:43.5	My teammate said his buddy recognized me in a picture with them.
0:49.9	That's fun.
0:50.4	Always a little organic, what's it called, Matthew,
0:55.8	recognition, recognition from people,
0:59.0	recognition from people outside of just us three.
1:02.4	Very cool, very cool.
1:03.6	We won the game, not very challenging game.
1:05.8	Matthew's brother played very well.
1:07.9	Pick up basketball, very fun, right basketball.
1:10.5	Yeah, it used to be. That thing in the past.
1:12.5	And the before times, it was fun in the current day and age. Jim, I hope that your recovery is going
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