Newsday‘s Ari Kramer and I are back with our NCAA Tournament picks. We talked everything from who’s going to make the Final Four to which lower seeds have the best chance of making the second weekend. We also gave our predictions for Northwestern and Wichita…
Villanova 55, Seton Hall 53 NEW YORK — Villanova hung on for a narrow 55-53 victory over Seton Hall in Friday’s Big East semifinals in one of the more interesting games in the entire tournament. Seton Hall was in control for the majority of the…
BY SHANE DAVIES Xavier 62, Butler 57 NEW YORK — In a game they desperately needed to win in order to sit comfortably on Selection Sunday, Xavier overcame a nine-point deficit Thursday deep into the second half to knock off Butler, 62-57. Junior guard Trevon Bluiett…
It was a fantastic regular season for the Big East, if only because two teams—Villanova and Xavier—managed to dodge losses while the rest of the elite college basketball teams often scuffled. The Wildcats and Mustangs have kept the Big East in the spotlight in spite…
Cole Huff scored a season-high 28 points off the bench Saturday as Creighton blew out DePaul, 88-66, at CenturyLink Center Omaha. DePaul (8-15, 2-9 Big East) had no answer for the junior forward, who shot 9-of-11 from the field and made four 3-pointers. DePaul, which…
For the second time this week, DePaul ran into a shooter they could not stop. Five days after Trevon Bluiett sank DePaul with five 3-pointers and 24 points, the team returned home Sunday and allowed Creighton guard Isaiah Zierden to put up even bigger shooting numbers as the…
Creighton shot 13-of-26 from beyond the arc Sunday in a 91-80 win against DePaul at Allstate Arena. At 4-2 in the Big East, the Bluejays are tied for third place in the Big East. Meanwhile, DePaul remains winless in the conference at 0-6. —Isaiah Zierden…
Although no local teams made the NCAA Tournament, 2015 was the best year in a long time for Chicago college basketball. The Catch and Shoot has chosen its top 10 moments of the year and will be rolling out one per day until New Year’s Eve, when the…
CHICAGO — In a matchup between the most recently departed Missouri Valley program and the conference’s newest member Saturday, Loyola knocked off Creighton 68-65 at Gentile Arena. Loyola replaced Creighton in the MVC a little over two years ago, making this one of the more anticipated non-conference games…
Who says the Big East is dead? With a deep group of physical and athletic teams, the Big East is showing that any requiems or eulogies for the league might be premature. After putting six teams into the NCAA Tournament last year, but seeing as none…
