Picked to finish third in the Big East, Providence lost four of their first five league games — including an 0-3 start — and has never recovered. Heading into the season’s final week Ed Cooley’s team sits at 6-10 and is tied for last place. But because the Big East standings are a tire fire, they could conceivably still finish as high as a tie for THIRD by winning out this week (with some help). It’s crazy to think about, but it’s true.
Meanwhile, at 7-9 Creighton sits in a tie for sixth, and enters Wednesday night’s game knowing the door has opened a bit for them to grab the #3 seed all for themselves — thanks to Butler “upsetting” Xavier on Tuesday, the only team in the middle of the league who can finish with a better record than CU at this point is Georgetown (8-8).