We just weren't that good this year. This was a team that was built around Love keeping his word and sticking around UCLA for a few years. The kid went to the NBA after one-season. It happens. That's the name of the game these days, but Howland was burned badly by the young man. If you look at the dynamic and composition of the team... it is missing one thing, paint presence. If you mix in an NBA lotto pick in the paint, we run Nova and most all comers out of the gym. Without him, we have a great big hole to fill and it never got filled this year. I believe the Big East was the bust of the tournament last year. They are having a much better year this season with some gift seeding and a large number of teams with returning talent. The annual man-crush the media types have on the big east is pretty funny.