On Wednesday, Kevin McNamara of the Providence Journal dropped a 122-character bombshell on Twitter: the Big East, he claimed, was “looking hard” at adding Memphis. He went on to say that “talks are hot and heavy.” No story or follow-up was ever produced by the journalist noted for his strong connections with the Big...
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Earlier in the week, we posed the question of how good Maurice Sutton really was for the Wildcats. The recipient of very few minutes this season, Sutton had a career performance on Saturday, as the Wildcats dropped a second game against Marquette by four points. During that game, Darrius Johnson-Odom passed Maalik Wayns to...
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On Saturday, Villanova couldn’t keep it’s hyped starting center on the court. Mouphtaou Yarou played just 11 minutes against Marquette while picking up a number of quick fouls. His big-bodied understudy, Markus Kennedy, didn’t fare much better — he fouled out of the game with 13 minutes remaining. All of that meant one thing:...
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Just one day after the U.S. Naval Academy announced that it would move it’s football program to the Big East conference in 2015, a report came out through Brett McMurphy of CBS Sports that the Big 12 conference was meeting on Wednesday to discuss possibly adding one or more schools. To make matters worse...
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Villanova basketball banned players from social media websites like Twitter and Facebook prior to the 2010-11 season and has done so again for this season. It was a move that was alternately applauded and criticized by observers, but that had the full support of head coach Jay Wright. Now, Villanova has upped the ante...
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Larry Brown, the former NBA Champion coach has often spotted at Villanova games over the past few years. He is close friends with Jay Wright, and perhaps something of a mentor. While he has no official title or responsibilities with the basketball program, he has been “around.” Brown attends practices, he watches the drills...
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Lots of things happened over the past 365 days in the world of Villanova sports. Thanks to the wonders of internet statistics, we can tell you exactly which ones captured the interest of both regular readers and random stragglers from around the internet. What follows are the Top-10 VUhoops posts of 2011, ranked by...
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There has been much conversation lately among disappointed Villanova fans about whether the current downturn has been the fault of the head coach. Jay Wright has always walked on thin ice at Villanova, with calls for his job coming shortly after starting his run on the Main Line with a big recruiting class and...
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Updated: December 27 at 9:00 am. With over 150 participating in our poll, the VUHoops readers expect the Cats to go 10-8 during Big East Conference play, with 7 wins at home and 3 wins on the road. The probabilities associated with each predicted win and loss have been calculated using reader voting as...
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On November 11th, expectations were high for Villanova’s season. Prior to and immediately after that opening game, a 106-70 walloping of Monmouth University, fans and pundits alike were discussing what seed Villanova would receive in the NCAA tournament, or how high they could climb in the Big East standings. Since then, the Wildcats have...
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