This had the makings of a scary week for the Big East.
The early results were ugly as the league took on the Big Ten in the 2017 Gavitt Games.
Minnesota pulled away from Providence in the closing 10 minutes Monday night, and Tuesday brought Purdue’s rather easy dispatching of Marquette on the road. The Big East notched its first win on Wednesday (Seton Hall over Indiana), but Maryland was too big and athletic for Butler in the fourth game of the series later that evening.
That was the theme early. The Big Ten looked simply too physical for the Big East in three of the first four games of the series.