The vaunted and much hyped Big East Conference sent 11 teams to the NCAA tournament this year. After the first weekend, only two [UConn and Marquette] remained and the country's supposed "deepest conference" was now the country's most disappointing. Naturally, the excuses to why the Big East failed to perform began flying. Some said it was because they beat up on each other during the regular season, other's claim that the Big East may be deep, but not overly talented. Both are valid arguments, as are these excuses we've made for each of the Big East teams knocked out of the tourney this past weekend.