The Flaming Burning Stinking & Predictable Disaster that is Creighton Basketball

[wsushox1]

Gave up 52 in one half. Ridiculous.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

52-30 at the half.

If "defense wins championships", then what does giving up 52 points in the first half get?

[_kai_]

52-30 at the half.

If "defense wins championships", then what does giving up 52 points in the first half get?

An extra beer at the concession.

[SHOXAAC]

52-30 at the half.

If "defense wins championships", then what does giving up 52 points in the first half get?

A reason for Shocker fans to pile on...I'm on board.

[Dave Stalwart]

Where did their infamous 222 defensive ranking come from? I'd like to see where they are today and what they did last season after that "storied" initiative they set out on to improve it a couple years ago.

I'd sure love to find out its more like 300 now so I could go over there and start a thread called #300.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Sorry DJ, but Creighton's defense isn't quite THAT bad. They entered the game today #134 nationally in defensive efficiency. I'm sure that will drop a bit after today's performance.

[Dave Stalwart]

Sorry DJ, but Creighton's defense isn't quite THAT bad. They entered the game today #134 nationally in defensive efficiency. I'm sure that will drop a bit after today's performance.

It really puts into perspective how good Doug was. They were able to win most of their games with a defense that was 100 spots worse than this current defense that's about to be 11-14 because he was that good.

[DwShock]

Fox midwest left the Crieghton game early to show the start of the Valley game. Now that's gotta chap some hides here in the big O!

[jocoshock]

@PaulS:uellentrop: Small victory for the MVC: Fox Sports cut away from end of Creighton blowout to go to Redbirds-Salukis.

[Dave Stalwart]

So Creighton is so bad that the network who was going to get them a bunch of national exposure is cutting away early to cover very mediocre games from their former conference?

[ShockerFever]

Ouuuuuuuch. Getting switched by the Valley. Freaking classic!

[wu_shizzle]

52-30 at the half.

If "defense wins championships", then what does giving up 52 points in the first half get?

What is a new coach, Alex.

[ShockerPrez]

That's a nice suit, Alex.

Does it come in men's sizes?

[Shocker-maniac]

Big East basketball not scoring for Fox/Fox Sports 1

When Fox signed the Big East Conference to fill college basketball slots on Fox Sports 1 during the winter, the network was hoping it would bring viewers and help to build the new network as the original Big East did in the early days of ESPN. Well so far, the numbers show that the Big East has to catch on with viewers.

In addition, Fox Sports 1 had games like St. John’s Providence last month average 48,000 viewrs, DePaul-Creighton early in January garner an average of 77,000 and a Creighton-Georgetown game just after the New Year had 58,000 viewers.


Read entire article here: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/big-...-sports-1.html

[Dave Stalwart]

I think there may have been a general misunderstanding of who made the big east a big deal. When most of what made it a big time conference left, the draw also left. It's still a good conference, but it's more of a good, high/midmajor conference. In other words, it may be the BEST mid major conference but it is still mid major now. It's just not going to draw the same audience as it would have if it still had all of its big schools that left.

I think it's realistic to at least hope the MVC can produce a decently similar strength in some years. I really doubt the current big east will always be as good as it is this season.
... And even in this really good season, they apparently aren't drawing so well. Interesting. So it will probably only get worse.