Dan Hurley believes six Big East teams should have their name called Sunday night.

If not, the Connecticut coach thinks it would be an affront to the league.

“If we don’t get six teams, that’s incredibly disrespectful because there’s a lot of truth to what some of these conferences did relative to manipulating the NET,” Hurley said, referring to the major metric the selection committee relies on. “You look at some résumés of some of these programs that are in these leagues that are considered the best. They have literally beaten nobody in the non-conference.”

It is very uncertain how many teams the conference will get, due to several big stealers.

With projected at-large teams Florida Atlantic and Dayton bowing out of their respective conference tournaments early, and bid-stealers in the ACC (N.C. State) and Pac-12 (Oregon), there are four fewer at-large spots available.

That is believed to impact Big East bubble teams St. John’s, Seton Hall and Providence. Some bracketologists have suggested the league may only get three teams, in Connecticut, Marquette and Creighton.

“If Seton Hall’s not in, that’s embarrassing. There’s a large problem relative to the respect the Big East gets,” Hurley said after the Huskies won the Big East Tournament, beating Marquette, 73-57, at the Garden. “Providence beat Wisconsin, who beat Purdue today, and is playing for the Big Ten championship tomorrow. It has other really, really good wins. Like beating Marquette with [Tyler] Kolek earlier in the year.

“Obviously, St. John’s, we’ve played them and we’ve played some other teams in the non-conference that are going to make it that St. John’s is just as good as. We should be a six-bid league this year.”