Nova Notebok Article on Kyle Lowry
Mike Sheridan’s newest installment of ‘Nova Notebook features Kyle Lowry. The article notes how Kyle is spending a lot of time at the Davis Center this summer and his relationship with Alvin Williams.
Lowry also had the opportunity to visit Mali and Senegal with Adidas this summer.
Blog Notes Scottie Reynolds as a Top 20 Player
Northwestern Wins, has gone ahead and ranked the Top 25 players in College Basketball. Villanova’s Scottie Reynolds came in at #19.
I think Reynolds will have a breakthrough year in 2008 building off his tremendous performance in last year’s NCAA tournament. He needs to get his players the ball more this season…
The only other Big East players ranked ahead of Reynolds are, Luke Harangody (#5), Sam Young (10), Hasheem Thabeet (12), and Dejuan Blair (18).
A Little Write-up on Doug West
The bloggers over at Cards Hoops are doing a great job of staying busy in the summer. They have a new feature- Former Players on the Sidelines where they have a little write-up of 10 former players who are now Big East Assistants which, of course, includes are own Doug West.
Followup George Raveling Article
Today’s article on Jack Fertig’s blog is another one on George Raveling ‘60. This post discusses Raveling’s insight in creating summer camps, the idea of enhancing Underclassmen Unofficial Visits. Another very insightful read Raveling.
Jack Fertig, is a New Jersey native, and was a graduate assistant at Vermont, Washington State University and Oregon. He then became a full-time assistant coach at Robert Morris, Western Carolina, and Tennessee before becoming associate head coach at Toledo and then USC.
He was then appointed the Director of Basketball Operations at Fresno State before finally returning full circle to the high school level where he served as head basketball coach and math teacher at Buchanan High School.
Here are all of his articles on George Raveling, who is one of Jack’s two greatest mentors.
Article on George Raveling ‘60 and Michael Jordan
We came across this a blog article, 13 Years and Going Strong, about Villanovan George Raveling ‘60, and his involvement with Michael Jordan’s camp in California: MJ Flight School.
Raveling and Jordan met in 1984 when Rav was an assistant coach on the Olympic Team. The two were drawn to each other based on their charisma and “likeability”.
Today’s article, seems to be the first part of two.
Another Prestige Ranking puts ‘Nova at #30
Times are slow for college basketball fans in the middle of the summer…
Granted the author of this story at the Bleacher Report is only taking data from 2000, but he has Villanova @ #30.
Commentary…
Personally we don’t like his scoring schedule, which puts a greater differential in weight on winning one game in the NCAA Tourny than anything else. (eg- lose in 1st round- 2 points. lose in 2nd round- 34 points… Lose in Championship- 64pts. Win Championship-65 pts) Something is wrong there with a Championship being worth only 1 more point than making it to the Final.
New Nova Notebook on Malik Allen
Last week, we mentioned that Malik Allen ‘00 was signed by Milwaukee. Today, Mike Sheridan’s summary diary, Nova Notebook, has a new blurb on Allen. He notes how Jay is welcoming all the Alumni back and many can be found working out at the Davis Center this summer.
ESPN Ranks Most Prestigious Programs: ‘Nova #31
ESPN has created a point scheme to determine the best programs of Modern Basketball. The system grants points on National Championships, and yearly success and takes points away for sub-500 seasons.
Villanova came in at #31 with 126 points.
We Did the Math…
Update- thanks to Eric for at noting Allan Ray’s 3rd Team All-America (which earns 1 point). Also, initially a 20-Win season was worth 2 points (but it was changed to 1 point)- So, Villanova should have 120 points or 134 points
National Championship: 25 (1985)
Elite 8: 20 (1988, 2006)
Best Record in Big East: 10 (1997, 2006)
Sweet 16 loss: 10 (2005, 2008)
Conference Tourney Title: 3 (1994)
Losing in 2nd Round: 12 (1986, 1991, 1996, 1997)
Player in Top 10 Draft: 8 (Foye, Kittles, Pickney, Thomas)
20-29 win seasons: 13 (85, 86, 88, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 06, 07, 08)
First round win as a 12-16 seed: 2 (2008)
NIT Title: 2 (1994)
Tourney Birth: 13 (85, 86, 88, 90, 91, 95, 96, 97, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08)
NIT: 9 (87, 89, 90, 94, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04)
AP 1st Team All American: 6 (Kittles, Foye)
AP 2nd Team All American: 4 (Kittles, Bradley)
AP 3rd Team All American: 1 (Ray)
Loss to 12-16 seed: -2 (Old Dominion)
Losing Seasons: -15 (87, 92, 93, 98, 03)
New Nova Notebook Article on Foye’s Foundation
Mike Sheridan’s Summer Series, Nova Notebook, has a new entry about Randy Foye’s philanthropic work through the Randy Foye Foundation and the way he is giving back to Newark, NJ where he grew up.
Foye is trying to raise $750,000 to help children at a crossroads in their lives. Randy also touts the Villanova Family when talking about his relationships with Jay, Alan Ray, Marcus Austin, Kyle Lowry, and Chris Charles:
“It’s like a brotherhood,” he says. “We’ve all stuck together. We’re on all different paths but I know that with what Coach Wright instilled in us, we’re all going to be all right.”
Villanova- #13 Greatest Program
Mike Miller at MSNBC has been doing a series on the Greatest College Basketball Programs. He’s been profiling the Top 25, and Villanova came in today at #13.
He, of course notes the ‘85 Championship, but chronicles the team from the Severance & Arizin years through Jay’s success.
The #13 ranking, puts ‘Nova ahead of Georgetown (#16), St. John’s (#19), and Notre Dame (#22)
