By JOHN BOSCHINI

There's still a week to go until the brackets for the 2011 NCAA Tournament are revealed but several teams have already seen their postseason hopes extinguished.

Only four teams remain in the Big East Tournament as Connecticut, Louisville, St.

The strongest conference in college soccer will begin the path toward crowning its champion today as the Big East Tournament kicks off and a half dozen nationally-ranked teams do battle for the crown currently held by Louisville.

South Florida enters as the favorite, with pre-season favorites Louisville and UConn being forced to take longer roads to the semifinals after enduring some disappointing results.

By Jon Levy A week prior to the tipoff of college basketball's NCAA Tournament, the only American sports playoff which inspires anything near World Cup-level madness, The World's Most Famous Arena hosts a yearly five day competition that doesn't garner half the prestige of "the big dance." No one fills out brackets, and Sally the [.