Scottie Reynolds: Big 5 Player of the Year
Graduating Senior, Scottie Reynolds, has been named Big 5 Player of the Year. Read more
How Big is it?: Debating the Big 5
Is Villanova’s out-of-conference schedule too weak? Some commenters seem to think so. The options to resolve that perceived deficiency have been kicked around in the comments. One of the more drastic options: Killing the Big 5.
The perception around the Philadelphia college sports community is that Villanovans have no interest in the tradition of the Big 5 or any love of the history of the Palestra. Personally, I appreciate both of those things. In fact, many of my closest friends from Villanova are also fans of the Big 5.
I can’t do justice then, to the opinions of Villanova fans who feel otherwise. For this, I turned to a fellow blogger from (often off-color) Fact on Villanova Sports. Read more
Conference Realignment
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 they could very well steal away a basketball school (Notre Dame). Tannenwald works from the (IMHO, correct) assumption that the Big East will look to replace the departing team with a school that can be competitive in in more than just football. Read more
: Scottie & Dante Named to All Big 5 Team
Scottie Reynolds was named to the 1st team All Big 5 squad and Dante Cunningham was named to the 2nd team.
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: Villanova & St. Joseph’s (PA) Post-Mortem
The Main Line team was on a 4 game skid and had a Big 5 Record Streak going. The City Line team with seniors who have never beaten Villanova were hungry. The Philly press coverage was large.
Here are some local articles…
- UPDATED CSTV Highlights (video)
- Jay Wright and Phil Martelli press conference (video)
- St. Joes- HOLY MISMATCH
- Woe is Villanova
- Jay Wright, Dante Cunningham, Scottie Reynolds post game comments (mp3)
- Soft Pretzel Logic
Look in the right-hand column :Headlines from The Daily News & AP for more…
Villanova 55: :77 St. Joseph’s
Oh wow. ‘Nova ends their Big 5 winning streak of 14 games and adds to their 4 game losing streak. The Wildcats found themselves down 31 at one point. Dante Cunningham and Scottie Reynolds both had 12 points for Villanova (13-8, 3-6).
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:Laura Kurz- Big5 Player of the Week
Junior forward Laura Kurz scored a combined 69 points in wins over Binghamton and UMass last week to win the Big 5 Player of the Week award for the second time this season. :Story
:Season Stats Updated through the Temple Game
The consolidated, sortable stats for the complete season (thru Temple) are available on the VUhoops Google Group.
The Catch… to access the .xls file, you will need to become a member of the VUhoops Google Group. GoogleGroups has great functionality and we will be using their document repository to start.
:9Dec #25 @ Temple
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Location: Philadelphia, PA (Liacouras Center)
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
TV: ESPNU
Villanova is 40-39 all-tim against the Broad Street Owls. The Wildcats enter the game riding a record-tying 12-Game Big5 Winning Streak.
:Women Beat The Hawk
The Lady Wildcats defeated St. Joe’s 71 to 47 in a Big5 matchup. The Women move to 7-1 overall (3-0 Big5). :Story & Stats
