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In Rome for New Year's Eve. Was counting on fox app, but just found out it does not work outside of US. Figure it is long shot, but if anyone knows of place where they will show game or place online that is accessible outside of US, I would appreciate the advice.

Book dis shitttt!!!!

Congrats to the alumni who were at the game. the students can't say the wine and cheese didn't show up when needed. The old joint was jumping.

According to some on this board the sky is falling and we are not very good, How can we be favored over the number 6 team in the country by 4.5?

knucklehead.

Pre New Years activity. Mandatory attendance

another amazing figure!!!

Villanova Head Coach Jay Wright Opening Statement

"We played our best game of the year, we had a great home crowd, and they lost Edmund Sumner. He kind of drives their engine. We'll all be praying for him. That was scary and I'm sure that affected them. We played well and they had to play without one of their best players."

Wright on Villanova's defensive pressure"When you take out their starting point guard, pressure works really well. I don't want to take anything away from our guys, our guys gave great effort but Edmund is a big part of what they do."

Wright on Villanova's three point shooting"We really took good threes tonight. We've been saying all along that we're a good three point shooting team we have just taken some bad shots but we took good ones tonight. Arch took a couple of crazy shots, but he was feeling it, there's a difference. You want a guy to have the freedom to do that."

Wright on injury early in the game to Sumner"We were close to him on our bench and we were all very concerned. When we were in the huddle we were all looking over to see if he was going to be alright. After we knew he was alright I was concerned with our guys and I said we've got to continue to play hard. I think it affected everybody."

Wright on Arcidiacono stepping up with 27 points"I always know he going to give us whatever we need on that night. I didn't say a word to him. I didn't have to. I know he was going to step up like that. That's what makes him special."

Arcidiacono on Jalen Brunson out of the starting lineup with illness

"I knew I was just going to have to come out aggressive and make plays for everyone, not just myself. After I hit a couple threes I took a couple of crazy shots but we settled down and played well as a team, both offensively and defensively.

"This could happen for anyone on our team. Anyone could go off for 27 or 30 points and shoot the ball really well. We played our best 40 minutes of Villanova basketball."

Arcidiacono on getting a big win starting conference play"Honestly, it's just the next game. Our prayers are definately with Edmund. That shook up a couple of us. We didn't get up for this game more than the Penn game or more than we'll get up for the Creighton game."

Ochefu on Arcidiacono's big game"It's definately up there with his best games but it's not a surprise to anybody in our program. That's just Arch. I didn't see a difference, even when he started making shots it was just regular Arch."

Ochefu on making his decision to come to Villanova
"The fans are amazing here. I wasn't worried about the arena when I was making my decision. I was worried more about the values of the program, the type of coaching staff we had and the type of guys on the team. I made the perfect decision coming here."

From VU Hoops - M.J. Dumas has six offers, with Nova being his 6th. Two of the six are North Carolina Central and the University of Indianapolis. Young man is 6 - 5, 300 pounds.

Fun game to watch. Navy QB is spectacular running that triple option. Broke two national records today. Most yards gained by a QB, 4551, and most TD's 88. What also made the game fun to watch was that only 1 Yellow Flag was thrown, (except for an on purpose delay of game) a 15 yd. holding penalty on Navy in 4th Q. Can't remember if I've ever seen a game with only 1 penalty. Congrats to both teams and the stripped shirts. Regarding Pitt, they will be a very tough opener. Loaded with good Freshmen and Soph's. On offensive two deep there were only 2 Seniors. On defensive 2 deep only 5 Seniors. A freshman running back won ACC Offensive Rookie Player of the year award. A freshman safety won the same award for Defense. Have no idea how good their Recruiting for next year is at this point, regardless looks like they will be loaded going into next year.

Read this thread. The amount of shots fired at Jay, Villanova, and our players is amazing. Never seen such sour grapes in my life. Xavier fans definitely have their Kleenex out today.

http://www.xavierhoops.com/showthread.php?30494-XAVIER-vs-VILLANOVA

That is what we saw today, except we were the ones shooting unconsciously. Watching the way Arch was drilling 25 footers the first thing I thought of was Wrange in 2014 and how he could not miss that Monday night in Philly. The injury hurt them emotionally but we were prepared regardless. As others have said as well as myself, the OK and UVA games were very beneficial to Jay and the staff. I am really interested to see how we play Sat night in Creighton. I hope we leave Philly tonight, no NYE/big win celebration. We have played two poor games in Creighton, the place will have 14,000 fans going crazy looking for a major upset. As impressive as today was, I have a feeling Jay is really looking forward to see how this group handles a major win and then being forced to get up for a hostile environment 48 hours later.

Wow we're still the Big Dog in this junkyard.
Untill somebody proves different.

Said 2 weeks Nova would smoke Xavier by 20 didn't know expect 30 but must have been one off with my tarot cards . Enjoy this win. Have a drink, hug a friend, love the Cats. happy New Years all.

I don't really have much to say about the X game because Villanova did al the talking necessary today!

I do want to wish Happy New Year to all of Nova Nation.
And to those who are negatoid and nay-sayer. I hope that as new year resolution, you find within yourselves to be a bit more optimistic when it comes to Villanova basketball affairs.

Those of you going make some noise. We need this game.

Marquette losing to Seton Hall 77-60 with 2 minutes left.

see ya chipster.

WOW!

X was #1 by a wide margin. We were #2. Will this win be enough to jump them?

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Ever notice the Xavier coach looks exactly like the crazy white supremicist dude in the movie Alpha Dog?

https://www.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=1000&CID=1157455

Chat will be live shortly. Happy New Year everybody.