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Big East Basketball: Each team’s worst performance of the last decade

By Joey Loose

HOUSTON, TEXAS - APRIL 04: Kris Jenkins #2 of the Villanova Wildcats shoots the game-winning three pointer to defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels 77-74 in the 2016 NCAA Men's Final Four National Championship game at NRG Stadium on April 4, 2016 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
HOUSTON, TEXAS - APRIL 04: Kris Jenkins #2 of the Villanova Wildcats shoots the game-winning three pointer to defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels 77-74 in the 2016 NCAA Men's Final Four National Championship game at NRG Stadium on April 4, 2016 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /
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CHICAGO, IL – MARCH 03: Brandon Cyrus #4 of the DePaul Blue Demons reacts after losing to the Xavier Musketeers on March 3, 2018 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois. Xavier won 65-62. (Photo by David Banks/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, IL – MARCH 03: Brandon Cyrus #4 of the DePaul Blue Demons reacts after losing to the Xavier Musketeers on March 3, 2018 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois. Xavier won 65-62. (Photo by David Banks/Getty Images) /

DePaul

November 26, 2010 (Cal State Northridge 88, DePaul 66) (GS: 1)

Fair-weather college basketball fans may look at recent history in the Big East and conclude that DePaul is a terrible program, but it didn’t used to be that way. The program was solid under Ray Meyer, especially back in the 1970’s, but this has been a rough century for the Blue Demons. They haven’t been in the NCAA Tournament since 2004, and they haven’t finished over .500 since 2007. While not everything has been bad for DePaul, there are plenty of awful performances to filter through.

Three games immediately popped up, and we’ll spend a moment looking at the other two, the first of which was a devastating 63-36 loss at local rival Northwestern. It’s bad enough to lose to a Chicago rival, but to shoot and perform that badly takes it to another level. The other loss that didn’t quite make the cut was DePaul’s final regular season game in March 2014, 79-46 home loss against Butler. What makes this loss worse is that this was during the Brandon Miller year at Butler, the one year the program has really underperformed lately.

Instead we turn our focus to 2010 76 Classic in Anaheim, standing in awe as DePaul drops a 22-point game to Cal State Northridge, a mediocre Big West team that would finish the season 14-18. CSUN exploded to a 28-6 start and led 45-21 at the half, and the game was already over. DePaul got 14 points from Brandon Young and 10 from Mike Stovall (the two took a combined 22 shots), and didn’t have the offensive firepower to keep up.

There’s no shortage of disappointment for DePaul and there’s absolutely no sign that this will let up anytime soon. New coaches, new players, and new optimism has never resulted in any progress and now DePaul has seen a mid-major in their own city make the Final Four, while they can’t even make the Tournament. You can try to look at the positives, but are there any for the Blue Demons?

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