The Big East regular season has come and gone and the 15 regular participants of our weekly Big East Blogger’s Power Poll convened to vote on our 2007-2008 Big East Regular season awards. Here is the log of our esteemed voting members:

NBE Basketball Report
Card Chronicle
CuseAdelphia
Black & Green ND Basketball Blog
HoyaSaxa.com
CourtVisions College Hoops Blog
SPK, frequent contributor to Piratecrew.com
Villanova by the Numbers
RAC ‘Em up
The East Coast Bias
Marquette Basketball Cracked Sidewalks
Chris Dokish, contributor to Big East Basketball Report and Pittsburgh Sports Report
Bryce’s Brackets and Observations
WV Mountaineer Sports
The Bracket Blog @ Bracketography

The voters have named a Big East Player of the Year as well as our all-league teams. They have also anointed a Freshman of the Year and all-Freshman teams as well as voting for Coach of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Most Improved Player and a projected Big East Tournament winner.

They also gave us some insight on who they foresee as the early favorites for 2008-2009.

Read below to see the results!

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The Big East Regular Season is complete and now our attention turns towards the Big East Conference Tournament held annually in Madison Square Garden. This past season was unlike any other, with plenty of ups and downs and memorable moments. Lets take a look back at the season for all 16 teams in the conference and compare the season’s they had to the season’s we expected them to have.

We have also included an updated look at the in-conference RPI ratings for all 16 teams that include all the action from the season.

To refresh your memory, here is our 2007-2008 Big East Basketball Preview Edition.

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We have updated the in-conference RPI Ratings for the Big East through last night’s game. We use the NCAA calculation for RPI and SOS to determine these ratings, even using the weighted formula for home and road wins (and losses).

If the Big East had a true balanced schedule, everyone’s SOS would be .5000. So, the closer to .5000 your SOS is, the closer to a balanced schedule you played. The greater distance you are from .5000 shows how tilted your schedule is from balanced, whether easier (less than .5000) or harder.

Georgetown has faced the easiest to date, and their game with Louisville will help bump both their SOS ratings, but they will both likely be on the lower third of conference schedules.

So far this year, the home teams have won at a 63% clip.

Here is the in-conference Big East RPI table:

Louisville wins against Notre Dame, yet, it seems most people are talking about the growing legend of Luke Harangody today!

St. John’s has made a decision on Norm Roberts and are getting it out of the way early…

The NCAA Tournament selection process is heavy on the minds of Big East coaches, especially in light of a 10-6 conference team being left out last season. If that is not stressful enough, with trying to qualify for the Big East tournament adding to the pressure for some schools, maybe the pressure got to the Seton Hall staff, that is what ‘sources’ are telling FoxSports.com’s Jeff Goodman.

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Wednesday’s games are in the books and we have updated the conference RPI ratings to reflect the action in the Big East through the games of 2/27/208. The RPI calculation follows the standard calculation used by the NCAA, including the weighting of Road wins as 1.3 and home wins as .7. However, we only included results from Big East games in our calculations, figuring the true conference RPI for each Big East team.

The strength of schedule calculation also follows the NCAA formula. According to RealtimeRPI.com, the Big East has six teams in the top 25 of the overall NCAA RPI Ratings. Those teams are:

• 10) Georgetown
• 11) Connecticut
• 12) Louisville
• 15) Marquette
• 21) Notre Dame
• 25) Pittsburgh

Click below to see our Big East Conference RPI Ratings and some notes and observations on those figures:

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