Villanova has assured themselves that they will, at worst be a 4-seed in next week’s BIG EAST Tournament at Madison Square Garden. This gives Villanova the “double-bye” directly to the Quarterfinals on Thursday. At best, Nova will be a 2 seed if they beat West Virginia on Saturday.
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Of all the preseason predictions made by those who call themselves pundits, none was further off the mark than the sports staff at New York Magazine, who predicted that Connecticut would finish #2 in the Big East. They reasoned that “Kemba Walker, Jerome Dyson, Gavin Edwards and Stanley Robinson would capably fill the void left by the departures of...
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He are some raw data points on where Villanova stands in the BIG EAST in a number of statistical categories.
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‘Nova has 10 remaining BIG EAST games. Against Seton Hall, @ Georgetown, @ West Virginia, Providence, Connecticut, @ Pittsburgh, South Florida, @ Syracuse, @ Cincinnatti, and vs. West Virginia. How many will Villanova win? Discuss and vote below…
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Just a quick look to see where Villanova is standing in the Big East BIG EAST Statistical Rankings… Team
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Now that the out-of-conference schedule is taken care of and the Big East portion of the season is about to begin, this is a good time to re-evaluate what the team has done and what we can expect it to do going ahead. We are 11-1, and despite that loss to Temple (PANIC!), things...
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Philly.com’s Jonathan Tannenwald recently asked the question, “could Big Ten expansion benefit Temple?” His theory being that if the Big Ten were to snag a Big East team (and that appears to be their plan), that the Big East might replace that school with Temple. Clearly the Big Ten wants a football school, but...
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Villanova Senior Scottie Reynolds was named to the first team of the All Big East Pre-Season squad. Deonta Vaughn (Cincy), Greg Monroe (Georgetown), Lazar Hayward (Marquette), Da’Sean Butler (WVU), and Luke Harangody (Notre Dame) were also named. Harangody was tabbed with PreSeason Player of the Year honors.
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Today is the Big East Media Day, lots of honors will be announced today, so bear with me. The first; Villanova has been selected as the pre-season Big East Champions by the coaches. They received 10 first place votes, West Virginia received 5. Here’s the full Press Release.
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We partially noted this on Twitter last week… Here are the Big East All-Time Winningest Coaches in Conference Games. Jim Boeheim (356) Jim Calhoun (282) John Thompson (231) Lou Carnesecca (139) Rollie Massimino (123) Steve Lappas (97) Mike Brey (92) PJ Carlesimo (90) Rick Pitino (88) Jay Wright (85) Does #6 surprise anyone else?
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