11 teams made the tourney from the Big east. Louisville, Gtown , St. Johns and Villanova, lost in 1st round. Notre Dame, Pitt, West Virginia, Marquette, Syracuse, Cinn, and Uconn won in 1st round. Pitt, and West Virginia lost in the 2nd round. Notre Dame yet to play 2nd round. Uconn took out Cinn in 2nd round. Only one of Syracuse/Marquette will advance past 2nd round. So 4 lost in 1st round and at least 4 will have lost in 2nd round (though they took 2 of their own teams out). Will be at most 3 teams left for the sweet 16 (Uconn, Notre Dame, Syracuse/Marquette winner). Yeh, I agree they seem to be a bit overrated.
11 teams out of 64 is roughly the same ratio as 3 teams out of 16 Of course when you consider that ~15-20 of the 64 are automatic qualifiers from conferences that generally would not be expected to win the first round game, then with 11 teams you would expect more like 3.5 teams in the Sweet Sixteen. Yep, just need to figure out where that half team is.
Do we really want to make this argument now when the Big 12 is down to two teams out of 24 teams remaining? Let's pause until both Kansas and Texas make the Sweet 16. If one of them fails, then the Big 12 will look very overrated.
If the Big East is overrated, who's underrated and was slighted by the selection committee? Not the Big 12, if you go by the tournament wins and losses so far.
