2012-13 NCAA Basketball: The couches have made a full recovery

[Tyche]

Good fucking grief. Can't wait til the #16 seed knocks out the Zags.

[Headspace]

Good fucking grief. Can't wait til the #16 seed knocks out the Zags.

FGCU!

[Cail]

Good fucking grief. Can't wait til the #16 seed knocks out the Zags.

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Spoiler: show

[Tyche]

Jennifer Lawrence, and rabid Louisville fan, admonishes you for the use of her gif.

[Arvin]

People actually think zaga is good?

[Tyche]

Penn State was 0-18 in conference dating back to last season. Beats Michigan.

[Arvin]

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[Tyche]

FUCK YEAH UCONN!

[Tyche]

Motherfucker. Georgetown closes on an 8-0 run after being down by 7 in double overtime. What a choke job by UCONN.

[Tyche]

Tournament unis unveiled. I think Louisvilles look the best because they're the least aggressive with the colors. The white ones don't look bad at all.

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[Bregor]

UCLA's:

[Cail]

ND's are worse

[Tyche]

Notre Dame and UCLA got the short end of the stick. I want to see Cincis home uniforms, has potential to be awful. I don't mind Baylor and Louisville. Louisvilles jerseys look different in the two pictures. The top pic almost looks pink. The bottom one is alright. Probably just the lighting.

[Bregor]

ND's are worse

Notre Dame's at least are consistent. UCLA has all blue/yellow up top and all blue/white for the shorts. Just awful.

[Headspace]

I feel like I'm looking at 1980's uniforms.

[Headspace]

with longer shorts

[Moss]

ND by far the worst imo, terrible color

[Byrd]

They look like Jelly Belly flavors.

[Cail]

The Big East's seven departing Catholic schools are expected to start their own league next season and will keep the Big East Conference name, sources told ESPN's Brett McMurphy, Andy Katz and Dana O'Neil.

Joining the Catholic 7 schools -- DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, and Villanova -- in the new "Big East" this fall will be Xavier and Butler, sources said.

Xavier and Butler have not formally withdrawn from the Atlantic 10. To exit the A-10 with less than a year's notice would cost each school $2 million, Katz reported.

The Catholic 7's exit from the Big East is being expedited by Fox Sports Network. The network initially contacted the seven schools and laid the groundwork for them to leave the Big East with the promise of a lucrative media-rights deal, a source said.

Fox Sports Network is expected to announce the addition of the Catholic 7/Big East basketball league Tuesday in New York as part of the network's news conference announcing the addition of Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 channels.

Fox Sports Network's deal with the Catholic 7 is expected to be worth at least $3 million annually per school, sources said.

It's unknown how much it will cost the Catholic 7 to keep the Big East name.

The departure of the Catholic 7 schools, which would officially begin their new league on July 1, also could mean Notre Dame joins the ACC this summer instead of 2014.

Sources said Notre Dame has planned on remaining in the Big East for the 2013-14 academic year as long as the Catholic 7 schools did so. However, if those schools left before then, the Fighting Irish would also look to join the ACC this summer.

I like that look as a basketball conference for sure

[Byrd]

I like that look as a basketball conference for sure

I'm glad that conference is keeping the Big East name. The only school remaining in the football conference that I think of as part of the classic Big East is UConn; they're the only one that's been there since before 2004 (unless you count Temple, which left and came back).

Really curious what the new "Big East" football conference will be called. Pretty sure they won't try to tie a number to it, that seems like a recipe for disaster.

2013: UConn, Cincy, South Florida, Temple, Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, Rutgers, Louisville.
2014: UConn, Cincy, South Florida, Temple, Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, Tulane, East Carolina.
2015: UConn, Cincy, South Florida, Temple, Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, Tulane, East Carolina, Navy.