Big East What To Watch: Week Five

Because Villanova men’s and women’s basketball both have a game on Monday (okay, and because Xavier MBB is in there, too), we’ve got to get this Big East What To Watch out to you early on Monday so you’re set to go for the week. Honestly, this is more fun when I have all day Monday to stretch out and figure out what the highlights for the week are. In any case, when you see national rankings below right now, they’re from the November 24th Associated Press polls. Once the new polls are out on Monday, December 1, we’ll update everything as need be.

Feast Week is over, we’ve got a full four weeks of basketball in the books, and as of Sunday afternoon, Big East league action has started with UConn women’s basketball tangling with Xavier. Plus, Monday is December 1st! If you think of the season as November/December/January/February and March is the postseason, we’re at the one-quarter pole mark of the regular season right now. Things aren’t maybe 100% set in stone as to where teams are going this year, but it’s definitely at the point of the year where coaches know what they do and don’t have, and it’s time to start pushing their teams in the directions that they can go. Am I talking about Marquette men’s basketball more than normal right now for the What To Watch? MAYBE, who’s asking?

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Oh, and all of the Big East women’s basketball gets at least one league game on the books this week. That’s pretty great, right? Important basketball in early December!

Let’s get to the highlights of the week, shall we?

Monday, December 1: Villanova Wildcats at #21 West Virginia Mountaineers (6pm Central, ESPN+) — Jasmine Bascoe and the Wildcats have won three straight after starting out the year at 2-2, and at least according to the BartTorvik.com computers, they’ve seized control of the standing as the #2 team in the league. Facing the ranked Mountaineers in a Big East throwback battle won’t be a picnic, especially with WVU coming off getting…

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