Huggins continued

"I don't know how any team that wins 11 games in this league is not an NCAA Tournament team," Huggins said. "I was at Akron for five years and I know hard it is and how hard those guys work, but the reality is that if it's the 34 best (at-large) teams, put those teams in our league and see how many they win. This has to be the hardest league in the country."

Huggins, at his first Big East Tournament, was impressed by the way the tournament is run and by the interest that it generates here in New York. "This is the way things are supposed to be done," he said.