To give you a Sneak Peak of what ESPN has planned for Saturday’s GameDay programming, the following is planned… Jay Bilas will have a live interview with Corey Fisher within the first hour of the show Erin Andrews will have a live interview with Jay Wright in the second hour of the show There...
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Pittburgh’s star guard, Ashton Gibbs, is out with an MCL injury this weekend, but don’t think that will slow the Panthers down. Even without their leading scorer, Pitt managed to take care of business against West Virginia on Monday night. They will arrive on campus well-rested and prepared to take on the Wildcats. The...
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This week, ESPN was good enough to reach out to VUhoops with the opportunity to spend a few minutes (about 14) talking with a member of their College GameDay crew about the show and the game. Rece Davis was kind enough to take some time between a pre-game shoot-around (he was covering the Notre...
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We all remember what Mike Rice did when he faced Villanova last March. The scary thing is that this Rutgers team has considerably more talent on it’s roster than Robert Morris did. If Rice can squeeze the lemon as well this time as he did last March, the result might be better than an...
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Since our last Q&A with Marquette was so popular, I thought maybe we should do it again. This time, I got in touch with West Virginia blogger, WVUIE97 from the Smoking Musket. As with the last one, I’ll post his answers to my questions here, and you can find my responses to him over on his...
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The story of West Virginia’s season so far has been one of disappearing depth. Their freshman class all-but-vanished to a variety of fates: non-qualification, medical issues, and an untimely expulsion. Another freshman had season-ending surgery. The real kicks to the groin came when leading scorer Casey Mitchell was suspended indefinitely for a violation of...
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This isn’t really a new development for blogs in general, but it is new for VUhoops. As part of our Marquette game-prep I traded questions with Marquette blogger Dan Daitchman. I’ll post his answers here and you can read my answers to his questions on his blog “Stuck in 1977.” 1. With only two...
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It seems that Marquette is the school that always gives us a tough game, despite the ups and downs, whether they finish middle-of-the-pack or on top of the hill. They are a smaller, more athletic team that will try to use their athleticism and deep shooting ability to catch opponents off-guard. Regardless, the Golden...
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On Saturday afternoon, Villanova will be asked to defend it’s home-away-from-home court when the Georgetown Hoyas come in to the Wells Fargo Center for a much-anticipated match-up. The Hoyas’s vaunted backcourt was considered among the best in the nation in the preseason, but disappointments have seemed to flow from the loss of big man...
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While I tend to get longwinded on these matters, I can boil this preview down to one very short sentence: Providence is not good. Of their 12 wins this season, 11 came out-of-conference, and they took losses to La Salle and a (perhaps) underwhelming Boston College team in the first two months. Their first...
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