Most conferences get it: You can only put five players on the court at a time, so they only name five players to their all league first team. Heck, earlier this week, Xavier guard Stanley Burrell got so angry non of his teammates made the Atlantic Ten first team he called the league’s coaches “pathetic”.

So imagine our surprise when the Big East announced ELEVEN players on it’s first team.

Yes, eleven. Six plus five. I.E. six more than you’re allowed.That’s six technical fouls, Big East.

The following players were the lucky 11:

Cincinnati’s Deonta Vaughn, UConn’s Jeff Adrien, UConn’s AJ Price, Georgetown’s Roy Hibbert, Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody, Notre Dame’s Kyle McAlarney, Pitt’s Sam Young, Seton Hall’s Brian Laing, South Florida’s Kentrell Gransberry, and West Virginia’s Joe Alexander

We’d say that was enough … until we notice the Big East second team has ten players, and the league rookie team has ten more.

Is decision-making too much for these folks? We get it: The league is bigger than any other in D-1. But the A-10 has 14 teams (don’t ask us the math, please) and it finds a way to cut it down to five. You guys can’t do the same?