...if and when it is seriously revisited again is the only negative against Gonzaga distance?...we travel to Nebraska for Creighton which is half-way across the country so would University cost exponentially be that much greater to go another 1,379 miles to Spokane...they would fit so well in our conference and would elevate the national status of the BE overnight...the recruiting of west coast stud-HS ballers would be enhanced and I would think that the round-robin would still be doable with 11 BE teams...

just walked down the driveway to get my papers.....Arch picture on top of front page of the Post....booth and Jenkins high fiving on full back page.....then inside the Daily News a huge bench picture with nearly the whole team ....what exposure for VU....like I'm not pumped up enough already

NCAA Tournament
South Regional Final
Villanova vs. Kansas
KFC Yum! Center
Saturday, March 26 at 8:49 p.m. (EDT)
TV: CBS

Team Hotel
The Brown Hotel
335 West Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202

For more details on events taking place on Saturday: https://www.villanova.edu/LetsMarchNova

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Saturday, March 26
6 p.m.
Team Sendoff and Pregame Meetup
The Brown Hotel
The Team send-off will take place during the meet up, sometime after 6:30 p.m.

REGIONAL GAME WATCHES

Atlanta: Horseshoe Bend Country Club

Baltimore: Heavy Seas Alehouse

Boston: Warehouse Bar & Grille

Charleston: Mac's Place

Chicago: Derby Bar & Grill

Colorado: The Irish Hound, Denver

Dallas/Fort Worth: Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom

Fairfield/Westchester: Bob Hyland's Sports Page Pub

Greater Jacksonville/North Florida: Philly's Finest (RSVP to neflvualumni@gmail.com)

Greater Philadelphia: Field House

Greater Princeton: Brickhouse Tavern
and Tap

Greater Washington, D.C.: Parlay Sports Bar & Lounge (Dupont Circle)

Hampton Roads: (2 locations) Marker 20, Hampton and Shorebreak, Virginia Beach
RSVP to Frank Driscoll at 757-406-8210.

Houston: Doc's Motorworks Westheimer

Lehigh Valley: Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar

Long Island: (2 locations) Pomodorino’s Restaurant, Huntington and Changing Times, Bay Shore


Los Angeles: The Garage

Louisville: The Brown Hotel

Manhattan: (2 locations) Gramercy Ale House and The Australian

Michigan/N.Ohio: Blackfinn Ameripub

Monmouth /Ocean: Knights of Columbus

Morris/Somerset: Sona 13 (downstairs)

Naples: Tavern on the Bay

Northern New Jersey (Hoboken location): Mills Tavern

Northern New Jersey (Ridgewood location): The Office Beer Bar & Grill

Palm Beach: Duffy's Sports Grill of PGA Blvd. and U.S. 1, Shoppes of Oakbrook

Phoenix: Kelly's at Southbridge

San Diego: Home & Away

Sarasota: Gecko's Grill and Pub at the Landings Shopping Plaza

San Francisco: Pete's Tavern

South Florida: American Social Brickell

Tampa: Ducky's Sports Lounge

Villanova Club of the Low Country
(Hilton Head, SC): Drydock Restaurant

..per thread...http://www.scout.com/college/kansas...gn-at-the-elite-8-game-for-my-daughter?page=3

1. Arcidiacawhat?!?!
2. Your not in Kansas anymore Lol!" (Sic)
3. Jay, your run is VillanOVER.
4. Kansas is Perry good.
5. Game Ova Nova
6. K-State Wildcats, check. Kentucky Wildcats, check. Villanova Wildcats - NEXT
7. "Jay Wright wishes his name was Jay Hawk!"
8. "Where are they now?" With pictures of Allan Ray, Curtis Sumpter, and Scotty Reynolds
9. Villanope
10.Novay UR Vinning

said to be the key match-up Saturday night.......

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/20160326_Ford__Crucial__Nova-Kansas_matchup_is_at_forward.html

....reminds me of one of those Gerry McNamara a**holes"...from the Kansas board...

http://www.scout.com/college/kansas/forums/2481-hoops-talk/14653606-nova?page=2

From Bleacher Report last night:

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(For those who don't know, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a Miami alum.)

Basketball Times Third Team All-American: Josh Hart

Of the 15 players on the 1st thru 3rd teams, 9 are Seniors.
Ulis, Simmons and Dunn seem headed to NBA.
Poeltl, Grayson Allen and Hart were the others and, should they return next season are in the early discussion for 1st Team or, in the case of Poeltl, to repeat 1st Team.

NABC Awards:
District 5 COY - Jay Wright

District 5:
1st Team - Josh Hart
2nd Team - Ryan Arcidiacono

Clark Francis ranking of Top Coaches:
1. Coach K
2. Rick Pitino (whores for recruits)
3. Larry Brown (banned from postseason this year)
4. Tom Izzo
5. Roy Williams (beneficiary of ineligible players who took fake classes)
6. John Calipari (vacated Final Fours at multiple schools)
7. Bill Self
8. Jim "Nosedigger" Boeheim (banned from postseason last year and suspended)
9. Jay Wright
23. Chris Mack
34. Dunphy
39. JTIII
56. Martelli

Top Assistants:
31. Bake Show
57. Ashley Howard

Would he really leave Cleveland again?

Discuss

Anyone know? Sat evening before team send off perhaps? Thanks Tom

It was awesome that he came back and dominated Miami's front line last night. Kansas' front line will be a lot tougher and have more depth, so we need the Chief to be completely healthy. Just wondering if there was any report out there about what happened during that stretch where he went to the locker room and appearing limping for some time.

Quote from around the horn:
"I like Villanova a lot! They should have been a one seed and should be playing in Philly!"

hamier wrights coach was on local tv as being named coach of year. Question was asked about hamier's recruiting. Coach mentioned nova and Maryland as being out front but after mentioning a number of others indicated that providence was getting in the mix. One comment was that he could see wright at Maryland with Kevin huerter.

1. Larranaga
Around here Beilein, Ryan, and Brey, seem to get all the accolades but I happen to think hat this guy is better than all of them and he already schooled us in 2011 in Cleveland and I was there to witness it.

2. Ja'Quan Newton
I'm not regretting or lamenting the fact that we did not get this guy. I am very happy with Booth, and I expect him to be awesome next year.
His 22 minutes and 10 points per game should not worry anybody but you just know that this the kind of guy that in a game like this could go off for 20/25 points.
We need to be careful about him.

With all that said, I think we win comfortably and then take our chances with Kansas.

Driving out with family (4 young ones) and need one or two. Are there scalpers or is Nova selling? Should I just go stubhub?

Surprised he hasn't received his own thread until now with that performance. Not only did he completely outplay a guy who matched him in size, he made life in the paint really hard on Rodriguez and Newton (did Newton play?)

But of all the many tone setting plays last night, none were bigger than Ochefu hobbling around on one leg, draining that 15 footer at the buzzer, then going down the court and denying Rodriguez again.

Senior will!!!

Have seen several references over on Twitter, but Mike DeCourcy over at SportingNews wrote about it earlier.
Link is -- About Villanova's Win
Read the entire article. Good stuff.

DeCourcy (ie the press present) covered all of the previous talking points:
1. Kansas has been equally crappy the past 2-3 seasons and no one noticed.
2. Arch is the man.
3. Villanova's offense is awesome.

But Decourcy ends his article with the quote that has been circulating for the past hour:

“I just think football,” Wright said. “The Power 5 are football conferences, built for football, and some of them — like the ACC — are also great basketball conferences.

“We’re just a basketball league. Our league is all basketball, our schools, our tradition — it’s basketball. It’s for basketball purists.”

The media has had a hard time figuring out just what the heck the Big East is now that the football schools are gone. That ESPN, who now has zero motivation to "assist" the rest of the media in fashioning a proper niche for the Big East in the NCAA sports pantheon has not been lost on Big East fans, but perhaps on the rest of the ink and electronic media. If Villanova can keep this run going maybe, aside from the obvious, Coach Wright will have additional opportunities to make the case for the conference. The definition is not written is stone if guys like DeCoursy can get it.

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Did anyone else know this? As the father of two Eagle Scouts, I know how impressive the feat is. To achieve this over and above AAU teams, high school teams and school work is EXTREMELY impressive.

http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2016/03/23/josh-hart-villanova-eagle-scout/

While Josh was the 4th leading scorer last night, his play in the second really put the nail in the coffin. I am specifically referring to his numerous 'take'em' plays followed by mid range jump shots. He gives this team a dimension last year's team didn't have. No question Arch's and Jenkins shooting was unbelievable and Oche was dominate in the paint. But eventually a team figures out how to stop it the 3 ball (or shooters go cold). So just about the right point in the game, Josh's 1-on-1 plays and pull up jumpers were unleashed and Miami had no answer. His only glitch was the missed bunnie lay-up followed by his 4th foul. But Miami missed the 1-and-1 and the romp was back on track. I just love his ability to break down his man 1-on-1 style.

The multi-pronged Offensive attack from 3-land, mid range and Oche's post-up play is really hard to stop.

Finally credit to Jay and the D for completely shutting down Rodriguez in the second half. Outside of that great 3-ball he was a non-factor. I honestly don't know what happened there. I guess credit our D but Miami did some strange this in the second half. Larranga often took Rodriguez off the ball and buried him in the corner, Then he had him on bench at many crucial points of the game.

A month or two ago, someone posted a thread asking what Villanova's ceiling was.

The majority of respondents said the Elite 8.

Anyone care to reassess?

I can hardly sleep waiting for the tip tomorrow. I want Ryan and DO to keep playing....so excited. Not much sleep until we win this game tomorrow.....lets go Cats!

...our Coach...putting Josh back in the game in the first half with two fouls...surprising and ballsy move that worked our fortunately...