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2010 Team Awards Handed Out
Reynolds, Redding, Fisher, Yarou Win Awards
Wrapping up the 2010 Villanova Basketball Season is the annual Banquet which is being held tonight at The Pavilion, with the highlight of the event being the Team Awards handed out by Head Coach Jay Wright and the rest of the Coaching Staff. Read more
Corey Fisher & Jay Wright to return
Today Corey Fisher told media that he would not test the NBA draft waters. He said, “I’m definitely going to be back” to play his senior season.
Jay Wright told the reporters that he has not been contacted about any coaching vacancies. He claimed that he hopes he does not have to hear any offers that might be difficult to turn down because he wants to coach at Villanova. According to Mike Kern of the Philadelphia Daily News, Jay Wright said, “Unless something changed here, I don’t think I want to go anywhere.”
Report via Villanova student and photographer, Mike Dokas. Read more
Reynolds, Fisher, Wayns Earn BIG EAST Honors
Villanova Senior Scottie Reynolds was named to the BIG EAST All-Conference First Team today. He joins Greg Monroe (Georgetown), Luke Harangody (Notre Dame), Dominique Jones (USF), Wesley Johnson (Syracuse), and Da’Sean Butler (WVU).
Corey Fisher was named to the Conference’s 3rd Team.
Maalik Wayns was named to the All-Rookie Team.
The conference will announce Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the Year and Scholar-Athlete on Tuesday. Read more
Corey Fisher – Attitude is Everything
By who else? Sean Donovan Read more
Fisher #9 PG; Reynolds #7 SG According to Sporting News
Updated 9/22, 12 Noon. A basketball sports writer once wrote that when there is nothing to write about, make up a top-10 list. So in September, another day brings another list. Mike DeCourcy of Sporting News has published his lists of the ten best point guards and ten best shooting guards in the 2009-10 season. Corey Fisher makes the list as the #9 point guard, with the following commentary “Fisher should increase his 24.3-minute average.” Profound, huh? At least he agrees with the collective wisdom of the VUHoops crowd, which predicted that Fisher-Price’s MPG would jump to 28.5 next season. Scottie Reynolds makes DeCourcy’s list as 7th best shooting guard, with the commentary “[Reynolds] is on pace to challenge the 2,200-point mark, another subject discussed at length on this site (our conclusion was he will not break the record).
Here are the two lists in their entirety:
Wisdom of Crowds Recap – Part I: The Guards
Five weeks ago, inspired by the best selling book, The Wisdom of Crowds, we set out to test author James Surowiecki’s central thesis that by averaging the individual predictions of a group of independently thinking people, groups can make more accurate predictions than experts working alone. We conducted our test by polling the VUHoops readers, asking them to predict the minutes per game (MPG) of each player on Nova’s roster for next season. The polls are now closed, but we’ll have to wait until the season ends to assess whether there is, indeed, wisdom in the VUHoops crowd. Until then, we have some interesting scenarios to ponder, including what combinations of players will be on the floor to account for all those MPGs we predicted for each player.
We had to make a few computations to translate the readers’ votes into player MPGs. For you diehard statisticians, our methodology will be fully described in Part III of our recap, which will be posted next weekend. To the other more trusting readers, we offer the assurance that we validated our methodology with greyCat, editor of the outstanding and quantitatively-oriented blog, Villanova by the Numbers. In this installment, we review the MPG results for the guards; forwards & centers will be posted later this week. Read more
Reynolds & Fisher on Wooden List
Villanova basketball players Scottie Reynolds and Corey Fisher were selected as 2009-10 preseason candidates for the John R. Wooden Award All-American Team and Player of the Year trophy, announced today by Richard “Duke” Llewellyn, Wooden Award Chairman and founder.
The list is comprised of 50 student athletes who, based on last year’s individual performance Read more
Reynolds & Fisher On ESPN’s Wooden List
Andy Katz of ESPN.com, announced his preliminary picks for the 2009 season’s Wooden Awards, honoring the nation’s best player. “Each summer, the Wooden Award Committee asks members of the media to contribute a list of 50 potential contenders to get the selecton process started. Katz says the “race for the national player of the year honor is as wide open as it has been this decade.”
Making Villanovans proud, ESPN’s list of 50 players worthy of consideration for the award includes Nova’s two point guards — Scotty Reynolds and Corey Fisher. Read more
Wisdom of Crowds Experiment: Corey Fisher
Continuing our Wisdom of Crowds series on Nova point guards, we now shift our focus to Corey Fisher. Use the voting buttons in the right margin of the VUHoops home page to predict the number of minutes you think Corey will play next season, and the comment section if you want to explain your thought process. To help you come up with your guess, we have provided below Corey’s minutes per game and other stats from last year as well as his player assessment. In a few days, we will close the poll and average the reader predictions before moving on to Maalik Wayns. Read more
USA Takes Bronze Medal
USA Basketball.com reports that Team USA (6-1) rebounded from its semifinal loss at the 2009 USA Men’s World University Games and defeated Israel (6-2) 91-80 to collect the bronze medal . Host Serbia (6-1) won the gold with a 73-51 victory over Russia (6-2). Corey Fisher, who started the game, had 5 points on 2-9 shooting (1-6 from beyond the arc) in 23 minutes. He also had 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 3 turnovers. By the way, if you were wondering, the International 3-Point line is 3 inches closer than the college 3-point line.
Over the course of the two tournaments held over the past three weeks — The Serbia International Invitational Tournament and The Men’s World University Games, USA, Serbia and Russia played one another two times.
Serbia was the better team, followed by the USA and Russia, respectively. However, the USA was good enough to split with Serbia in their head-to-head matches (see Read More for USA, Serbia, and Russia’s records and the total point differentials in their head-to-head matches).
Corey Fisher made Nova fans proud, starting 8 of 10 games and averaging 10 PPG. Despite playing against some of the world’s best college players, his stats were very close to his season stats from last year (Minutes: 21 vs. 24; PPG 10.0 vs. 10.8; FG% 43% vs. 43%; 3PT% 24% vs. 35%; FT% 77% vs. 78%; RPG: 2.3 vs. 2.3; Assists: 1.5 vs. 2.8; TO 2.1 vs. 2.0; Steals 1.7 vs. 1.2).
How do you see his performance translating to the 2009-10 Nova season, and who do you think should start at point for Nova next year?
Corey Fisher Stats Over 10 Games:
Minutes 21
PPG 10.0
FG Attempts 8.2
FG % 43%
3PT Attempts 3.8
3PT % 24%
FT Attempts 2.6
FT % 77%
Rebounds 2.3
Assists 1.5
Turnovers 2.1
TO:Assists 1.4
Steals 1.7
