Cheek Makes Big East Honor Roll Junior guard Dominic Cheek was named to the Big East Honor Roll by the conference office on Monday afternoon. He averaged 22 points and 6 rebounds over the first three games of the season for the Wildcats; all victories. He had a career-high 27 points in the opener...
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In 2011, Dominic Cheek played his second season of Big East basketball and saw his role gradually increase to become the de-facto sixth-man. Though he shot only 30.5% from 3 as a sophomore, he wasn’t without his high-points, scoring in double-digits six times and having a perfect shooting night at South Florida (including 4-for-4...
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Mike Nardi scored 25 points, had 15 assists and grabbed 8 rebounds in a 135-140 double-overtime loss on Wednesday night. The former Villanova guard is playing point for the Investors Savings Bank squad in the Jersey Shore Basketball League (JSBL), a league that features division one players as well as professionals. Investors Savings was...
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All of the talk about a Dominic Cheek transferring this offseason apparently got back to him. He clearly felt the need to respond tonight when he posted the following status on twitter: If that isn’t clear enough for you, he also “retweeted” — a method of displaying someone else’s comment to your Twitter followers...
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Sean Donovan and Andrew Keefe put together this highlight video of Dominic Cheek’s freshman season. Hopefully with increased minutes the 2010-2011 version of this video will be much longer.
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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...
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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...
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It’s taken a while but we present to you the final piece of the Meet the New Wildcats series: Dominic Cheek. The interest started at the end of his Freshman year in 2006. Coming out of St. Anthony’s High School in Jersey City, Dom Cheek was bred for success under legendary coach and teacher,...
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Continuing our Wisdom of Crowds series on Nova shooting guards, we now shift our focus to incoming freshman Dominic Cheek. Use the voting buttons in the right margin of the VUHoops home page to predict the number of minutes you think Dominic will play (something that has become far more difficult given the uncertainty...
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Incoming Villanova freshman Dominic Cheek has been selected as one of 17 finalists to compete for a spot on the USA’s U19 World Championship squad. The roster will be whittled down to 12 players during the trials set for June 16-18 in Colorado Springs. The U19 World Championships will be held in New Zealand....
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