As the conference season begins to head towards the halfway mark, we’ll begin seeing certain teams set themselves apart from the rest, and still others come back to earth. This is about the point last season when pittsburgh began to establish itself as the clear leader, St. John’s began to get some respect, Notre Dame established itself as a contender and Villanova began to severely regress.

MONDAY

Take Cincinnati at home tonight over Syracuse. No Fab Melo again, and this Cincinnati team can play. I’ll take the upset with great confidence. Cincinnati is this year’s Notre Dame.

TUESDAY

USF is 5-2 and has a chance to be this year’s St. John’s. They’ll earn some serious respect around the league if they can pull off this one on the road. The only problem for the Bulls is that Marquette is 5-2 as well, and I’ll take the Golden Eagles at home.

WEDNESDAY

Louisville hosts Villanova in a game where the winner will be feeling really good and looking to move up to the middle of the conference, and the loser will be really happy that Pitt is so bad this year so that there’s no chance they are last. I’ll take the Cards at home in a close one.

Pitt hosts Providence and the Panthers will get their first win. Let’s be clear about this. PC is 1-6. If Pitt doesn’t win this game, they may not win one the rest of the way.

Rutgers hosts DePaul and should have no trouble winning and moving to 4-4 in conference. If the Scarlet Knights can keep it up, they’ll be a hot bubble team in about a month.

St. John’s plays host to West Virginia and will likely struggle here. As of right now, Kevin Jones looks like the league MVP. He could have another huge night in this game.

Probably the most interesting game of the night is Notre Dame at Seton Hall. Obviously, the Irish are coming off of a monster victory. I think they’ll need to be good to play with the Pirates and I think they’ll be a little flat on the road. Take Seton Hall here.

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