Old East Prejudice

[Always Learning]

Providence lost tonight. They are 10-8. Xavier is 10-8, and wins the tie-breaker by virture of its 2-0 record vs St John's.
Yet, the web site manager of the BE shows Providence ahead of Xavier in the BE standings.

[STL_XUfan]

Providence lost tonight. They are 10-8. Xavier is 10-8, and wins the tie-breaker by virture of its 2-0 record vs St John's.
Yet, the web site manager of the BE shows Providence ahead of Xavier in the BE standings.
I'm guessing they list tied teams alphabetically, but by all means, let the outrage begin.

[GoMuskies]

You could assume it is prejudice.

Or you could assume that it's an alphabetical listing when there's a tie.

[waggy]

I'm so fucking outrageous.

[Masterofreality]

Here's what's more ridiculous to me...(Cue anti-ESPN rant)

The ESPN standings for the Big East have a column next to Xavier and Providence as to record vs Top 25 with numbers in both cases of 0-4. Uh, no.

Remember the Borecat game? I think we beat Creighton, as did Providence. I know was are 3-5 vs the Top 50.

The four letter network has become a characature of itself. Some "worldwide leader".

[GoMuskies]

UC wouldn't count, because they weren't in the top 25 at the time Xavier played them. However, leaving our win over Creighton off is puzzling. By their methodolgy, Xavier should be 1-3. Creighton wasn't ranked for our first meeting with them, either.

[Always Learning]

You could assume it is prejudice.

Or you could assume that it's an alphabetical listing when there's a tie.

If its "alphabetical" then how does X come before S (Xavier in front of St John's)

[GoMuskies]

No idea. But if it's Old East prejudice, how do you explain Xavier being listed before St. John's?

[XUFan09]

Some Xavier fans try really hard to have a chip on their shoulder.

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