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The Sun's Arizin: Reactions to Big East schedules being released

Everybody's got an opinion.

Huuuuuuump Daaaaaay! Yesterday all the Big East schedules were released, which caused quite a stir over on Twitter. In a tradition unlike any other, the Big East held out to release their schedule. When it finally dropped, it was interesting to see the hot takes from each school's Twitter fanbase. And frankly, you learn a lot too.

For instance, I didn't think too much of the trip to Marquette. But apparently, that's going to be on National Marquette Day. So there's some added venom in the building.

And now, the "news."

Five conclusions jumped to after looking at the schedule | Big East Coast Bias
Because if there's nothing we love more, it's to jump to conclusions with a tonnage of haste. BECB manager Chris Novak is here with five conclusions that he's jumped to within the first few hours of its release.

Georgetown Hoyas 2015-16 Schedule Released! | Casual Hoya
Thoughts? Predictions? Lunch documentation?

And Now, The 2015-16 Marquette Men's Basketball Big East Schedule | Anonymous Eagle
WE GET A SATURDAY NIGHT HOME GAME! I don't even know when the last time that happened. It's on February 13, and Creighton will be the victim.

Hall of Fame-bound George Raveling's Delco coaching roots | Inquirer
In the early 1960s, when African Americans were rare on Catholic League and Big Five basketball rosters and the Civil Rights Act remained a dream, the players on an all-white, Catholic grade-school team in Delaware County asked a young, black Villanova graduate to be their coach.

Double Bonus: Texas Pan-American is now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Mid-Major Madness
UTPA has mysteriously disappeared off the college basketball map.

Big 12 Issues Public Reprimand over halftime show | Big12Sports.com
Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced a public reprimand of Kansas State University Band Director Dr. Frank Tracz after "the disintegration of a member institution's mascot" caused a (rather comical) stir.