Update: Game Results: With the Cats losing yet another tough one, 76-80, we congratulate six VUHoops readers who took medals in this round. Gold Medals: Colt (76-75) and ramon usategui (79-78), earning 5 points each; Silver Medals: NovaCat94 (77-75) and regred (76-74), earning 3 points; Bronze Medals: mike nardi (75-74), and Nova’97 (77-74), earning 1 point each. Here’s our leader board after the second supplemental rounds.
Leader Board -- Supplemental Round 2
Reader | Points |
Colt | 5 |
ramon usategui | 5 |
Rick 19 | 5 |
Barney Rubble '87 | 3 |
NJ Super’Nova | 3 |
Nova'97 | 3 |
NovaCat94 | 3 |
regred | 3 |
Chad | 1 |
Kait '08 | 1 |
LuvmyKatz | 1 |
mike nardi | 1 |
Update: Game Time A total of 36 VUH readers posted predictions, three predicting a Marquette victory. As a group, the readers see ‘Nova winning 76-72 (a margin of 4.0 points and implied total points of 148. The scatter graph depicting the readers’ predictions as well as statistical information about Marquette is provided below.
Window Opening: Wednesday, March 10, 8:00 PM The window is now open to pick the final score vs. Marquette on Thursday at Madison Square Garden. So far this season, Villanova (24-6, 13-5) has scored an average of 82.8 points while holding their opponents to 72.6. Marquette (21-10, 11-7) has scored an average of 73.2 points while holding their opponents to 63.3. In the first two meetings between the teams on January 2 and January 9, the Cats prevailed both times by a single bucket (74-72 and 78-76). The table below summarizes the Golden Eagles complete Big East game results so far this season.
Marquette | Opponent | Margin | ||
62 | @ | 63 | (1) | West Virginia |
72 | vs | 74 | (2) | Villanova |
62 | vs | 59 | 3 | Georgetown |
76 | @ | 78 | (2) | Villanova |
93 | vs | 63 | 30 | Providence |
50 | @ | 51 | (1) | DePaul |
71 | @ | 76 | (5) | Syracuse |
82 | vs | 59 | 23 | Rutgers |
70 | @ | 68 | 2 | Connecticut |
80 | vs | 69 | 11 | DePaul |
82 | @ | 79 | 3 | Providence |
63 | vs | 52 | 11 | South Florida |
51 | vs | 58 | (7) | Pittsburgh |
79 | @ | 76 | 3 | Cincinnati |
63 | @ | 61 | 2 | St. John's |
84 | @ | 83 | 1 | Seton Hall |
69 | vs | 48 | 21 | Louisville |
60 | vs | 63 | (3) | Notre Dame |
57 | vs | 55 | 2 | St. John's |