Everybody wants to win the regular season conference title. Everyone also wants to win the conference tournament title and the NCAA tournament title, but it’s the first week of February right now and only one of those is on offer. Just about every team starts out with fairly similar odds when they’re 0-0 - especially in the Big East, with a true double round robin - but that’s history now, and the bulk of the nation is playing for at-large odds and conference tournament seeding.
Not so with the four teams we’re about to look at in the Big East.