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VU Stop in LA on way to Hawaii

I had the pleasure of watching the team practice last evening at LMU and attending a reception after the practice. The entire team was in attendance and about 200 guests. Father Peter spoke as did Jay and a good time was had by all. I had the opportunity to speak briefly with Donte and Jalon. They both were personable and handled themselves like gentlemen. It was nice to see Brunson smile. As we know he appears to be all business on the court and you don't see that smile much. One interesting takeaway from Jay was that as well as we have been playing, he feels there is still quite a bit of upside and improvement in store. When they get it clicking, our cats could really be special.

Temple football...

Returned 2,950 of it's 3,000 allotted tickets for the American conference title game in Houston, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy.

Thought that was funny.

That said, if Villanova had moved up in football, it would likely be in the AAC, and if we made the AAC title game, we'd probably do the same thing.

Pick 'Em Contest Breakdown and Standings

Pick 'Em Stats:

133 Entries

Average # of Predicted wins for season is 26.7 (assuming 6-0 record that existed at the time of Pick 'Em start) and 14.9 average predicted Big East regular season wins.

In other words - consensus is that the team will go 27-4 or 26-5 (more towards the 27-4) overall and 15-3 in the Big East.

Interstingly, as of this morning, kenpom projects Villanova to finish 27-4 (15-3 in the Big East) - a near dead ringer for what the board predicts.

As far as consensus on the leading scorer/PPG tie-breaker predictions:
  • 27 chose Arcidiacono as leading scorer (avg of 14.5 PPG)
  • 21 Brunson 14.3
  • 73 Hart 14.3
  • 1 Jenkins 14.4
  • 10 Ochefu 13.9
% of Entries Picking Villanova to Win (Consensus Losses in Bold):
SJU(PA) .978
Oklahoma .622
LaSalle 1.000
@UVA .237
Delaware .993 (yes, someone chose UD and it wasn't novaclassof90)
Penn 1.000
Xavier .948
@Creigh .837
SHU .993
@Butler .281
Marq .985
@GTown .319
@SHU .956
Prov .970
@SJU 1.000
Creigh .993
@ Prov .415
@DePaul .993
SJU 1.000
@Temple .948
Butler .993
@Xavier .467
@Marq .793
DePaul 1.000
GTown .985
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