Corey Stokes Caught Peeing
Settle down just a bit. If you saw the VUhoops Twitter feed earlier in the day, you know that Villanova Junior Corey Stokes was arrested early Thursday morning for public urination.
In the report, it notes that Stokes was urinating between two cars while surrounded by teammates when noticed by the Police. a police car pulled up. “The Bayonne Bomber” was not arrested but was issued a citation and a fine for disorderly conduct. Read more
Blue & White Scrimmage Thoughts
As a non-student and young alum, I wasn’t able to get into Hoops Mania on Friday night (but don’t worry, I found something else to do). Although I couldn’t enjoy the spectacle on Friday, I did manage to scoot over to the Pavilion after the football game on Saturday for the far-more-practical event: The Blue and White Scrimmage. Read more
A List for Everyone
Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports, who endeared himself to VUHoops readers last week with his Big East Preview, today releases his much awaited Top 50 shooters in the country, with emphasis on the long-range bombers. Corey Stokes is #18 on his list with the commentary “He struggled shooting the ball as a freshman but shot 41.8 percent from deep last season and is one of the nation’s best.” Adding a quote from Jay Wright, “Corey has a shooter’s mentality — the next one’s going in. He also gets the ball to his shooting pocket fast and has a perfect release.”
We know that some of you guys have loudly protested our relentless coverage of the mind-numbing array of preseason top X basketball lists. For those guys, I have provided alternative links to Mens’ Journal’s list of the 25 Best American Beers (I did not recognize a single beer on the list) and Maxim’s list of the world’s 100 most beautiful women (Olivia Wilde of House MD came in #1).
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
Wisdom of Crowds Experiment: Corey Stokes
Continuing our Wisdom of Crowds series on Nova shooting guards, we now shift our focus to Corey Stokes.
Use the voting buttons in the right margin of the VUHoops home page to predict the number of minutes you think Corey will play, 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 on the next page.
Corey Stokes 2008-2009 Stats
| HT | WT | GM | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | TO | STL | BLK | PF | FG% | FT% | 3P% |
| 6-5 | 195 | 38 | 22.8 | 9.3 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 41% | 85% | 42% |
VILLANOVA.com Analysis: Brings a pure shooting stroke and great range … Read more
Notes and Stats
- Double Digit Dante: The LaSalle game marked the first time all season that Dante Cunningham did not score in double digits.
- Long Distance Stokes: Corey Stokes is 3-Point Shooting is impressive. He’s 32-for-65 on the season from beyond the arc. As a team, ‘Nova is shooting 37.1% from 3. Without Stokes, the number drops to 31.1%.
- 1000 Point Watch: Dante Cunningham currently has 906 points in his Wildcat Career.
- Jay Wright is currently sitting on a 158-84 (.653) record as the Head Coach at Villanova.
Statistics (through LaSalle)… Read more
Injury Update
Before last night’s game Corey Stokes was sighted in a soft cast but still managed to get to log 27 minutes and score 8 points. It turns out Stokes has a sprained left thumb.
Cassiem Drummond is still experiencing soreness in his left foot and was only in for two minutes.
There is still no update on the status of Dwayne Anderson’s stress fracture in his left foot.
From Media Day
from Philadelphia Inquirer
Togetherness: Hallmark of Villanova Hoops
thanks Ed ‘77
Additional Jay Wright Quotes from Media Day
We gave you a bunch of Jay Wright quotes from last Wednesday’s Big East Media Day. Adam Zagoria has added some new ones…
On Scottie Reynolds:
Scottie is healthy and I think it’s one of the responsiblities of our coaching staff to keep him fresh and healthy this year. He kills himself in practice and Dante Cunningham does the same thing. It’s my job to do the same thing.
On the Coreys:
We’ll always recruit New Jersey because that’s where the bulk of our alumni are from. The history of Villanova basketball, there’s so many great players from New York and New Jersey.
“Corey Stokes and Corey Fisher are the guys that really have a chance to make us a better team. They’re the guys that have made drastic improvements from last year and they’re both talented kids and very, very well coached coming from their high school programs. We’ve got experienced guys up front, those two could make the difference for us this year.
Pre-Season Player Evaluations
In case you’ve missed it, Nova News has been doing a Weekly Player Evaluation…
- Frank Tchusi
- Shane Clark
- Casiem Drummond
- Corey Stokes
- Scottie Reynolds
- Dwayne Anderson
- Reggie Redding
- Corey Fisher
- Antonio Peña
We’re guessing Dante is next!
Heading to Providence?
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