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Takes out #17 Cincinnati in the final second. Big win for the league!

Called TU ticket office at 10am this morning....and got 7th row seats behind Nova bench. Sweet. Enjoyed my 1st trip to Hagan tonite...team played well for the most part. That Temple game in mid february is gonna be intense. Temple's fans are the biggest A-Holes on the planet.

Our newest BW member, Jay4Pres, has agreed to take some questions this afternoon to enable us to get to know him a little.

Please post your questions and he will respond very soon.

Jay4Pres, here are a few questions to get it started:

1. What is your fondest Villanova men's basketball memory since you have been a fan.
2. What are your predictions for this March for this team?
3. Who is your favorite player this decade thus far?
4. When is the last time you consumed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Was the bread toasted?

Don't see Syracuse as a top 15 team at all. Also, I hate them.

I found this article very interesting (as both a statistics nerd and a basketball fan). I think it has some applications to our guard heavy / 3 point shot heavy offense

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/stephen-curry-is-the-revolution/

Got the tickets. Thank you

Sold/swapped. Thank you.

watch or follow along with the scores of these games tonight:

BIG EAST:
Butler @ Cincy 7:00 PM CBS Sports Network
Seton Hall @ GW 7:00 PM
Hartford @ Providence 7:00 PM
St. John's @ Fordham 7:00 PM
DePaul @ UIC 8:00 PM
Grambling St @ Marquette 8:00 PM
Arizona St @ Creighton 9:00 PM CBS Sports Network

BIG FIVE:
FDU at Temple 7PM ESPN3
Hofstra at LaSalle 7PM
Navy at Penn 7PM

I can't remember a Nova team that has had more quality depth than this one. There isn't anyone who comes in off the bench that bring any cringe-factor for me. Different strengths, but never that oh-crap I wish we didn't have to make this sub right now feeling. It seems obvious that we wear down teams in the second half with our bench strength.

That said, why do we keep jacking quick threes?

Can't we make the defense work on every possession and start to wear them down earlier?

Really the only thing this team does that frustrates me.

Not counting mid-majors and the Big 5, I'm trying to make a list of all the big conference teams Jay has beaten in his tenure. Who am I forgetting?

UCLA
Duke
Maryland
Michigan
Iowa
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Clemson
Florida
VCU
New Mexico
Arizona
Pitt/Syracuse/Uconn/BC
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Illinois
USC
Vandy

He could have been better than Jack but he doesn't give a damn!

http://deadspin.com/tiger-woods-hel...ess-conference-1745544429?trending_test_two_a

Interested to hear how people are doing so far. Especially how any 5s or 6s you picked are doing. My two 5s, Ball State and Duquesne have started out 6-2 and 6-1 respectively...pretty happy about that. In case anyone cares, my two entries are AEich1 and AEich2. One has 54 points and the other has 55. Probably one of my best starts doing this.

I know it is early but xavier is currently #1 in rpi. Nova is #5. Be nice if both can stay in the top 10. Big east is also off to good start and only behind big 12 in conf rank.

does he remind anyone else of Sam Perkins

on the road this evening for work but want to catch the game on satellite radio.

Anybody happen to know the station it's playing on Sirius XM?

probably the unsung hero tonight. Made some big plays on offense and was again a real problem for the opposition on the point of the 3 qtr press. In 3 years he may go down as the best player Jay has ever had at the point of the press. His long arms are very disruptive to small guards, they just can not pass around him. He came in and got almost immed turnover on the point of the press. Sweet dunk in traffic too and nice cut for the DO pass for dunk down the stretch. He is getting more confidence with each game, fun to watch.

Call bullshit on his retirement. This psycho dickhead will pull a Favre and look to join the Cavs or some other team to win another championship.

Didn't really think it was ever in doubt, but I had a 13 point win (we won by 14) though I thought it would be lower scoring...

Anyway, we did some good things out there, still need to box out better, but we didn't do anything different offensively, we just made some shots. I like the 3's falling in the first half, which really opened up a lot of 2's in the second half. Ochefu seems to only be credited with 1 block, but had about 3-4...played a monster 2nd half after a terrible first half, mostly from a "between the ears" standpoint.

Hart and Archi willed this team to victory and Bridges, Jenkins, and Brunson played solidly. I hope Booth can snap out of his funk or whatever because we need him. He was nice and aggressive again tonight, but his shot needs to start to drop. I think he's just thinking a little too much right now, instead of just playing. He'll be fine.

That being said, st joes (PA)(LOL) hit some tough shots and made it a bit of a game, but the outcome wasn't really in doubt, even when they got it to 6.

After what has come out this week about Okafor and his multiple "off the court issues", I now have to think that, as adp has said repeatedly, there is/was certainly some merit to having a few vets on the team to help with a very young roster, on the court some but at this stage I think mostly off the court, and especially with a Sixers roster that is the youngest in the history of the sport!!
I can now see the value of having an "old head" or two on the roster "early on" in the plan, to answer any questions and guide the young guys thru the grind of their first few NBA seasons, and all the problems and issues that might come with it. They didnt necessarily have to be players who were in the regular rotation, but I think they did and still do need to be "good people" who are carefully selected by management------veteran players who the young guys know they can go to with any questions, problems or concerns and get a good informed answer from somebody who's been thru it all. It seems like Okafor could really use somebody like that and it sounds like he would welcome it, based on one or two of the few comments he's made about these issues-----and others like Embiid and Noel could also certainly benefit from it, as well as the other kids on the roster.
In hindsight, that probably should have been part of the "original plan", realizing how young this team was going to be moving forward, so right now for me that part of it certainly appears to be a mistake by Hinkie, although I still fully believe that the basic premise of the "Hinkie Plan" was then and still now is the correct one!!
I think they can and probably should find someone to bring in right now to help out these kids for the rest of this year------I think its important. Then after this next draft, they can then begin adding a few "quality free agents" who still have lots of game left to fill any roster holes as they officially start and continue the ongoing process of "winning more games" each and every year, which hopefully will someday result in an NBA championship-----that is my hope!

Saw that this is an actual thing and parents are upset about.

Well you should probably tell your kids:

1. Dinosaurs were violent.
2. Dinosaurs and people died

I dont have kids but are parents this bad today that they complain about a cartoon movie with a green dinosaur and caveman?

As a person who loves Pixar I cant wait to see it.

1 vs 2 battle between McDonogh and St Francis Academy.
Villanova recruit Noah Locke and teammates Bruce Moore (Bucknell) and underrated junior pg Damian Chong-Qui vs Soph big Koran Moore, stud frosh Gerald Mungo and dynamic backcourt of Daquan Bracey (LA Tech) and Kurk Lee jr (undecided) Great matchup. Hope the game lives up to it.

#FishesandLoafs!!!

... kinda shat the bed.
Zierdan doesn't secure the board.
Mo Watson makes too many mental errors.
Miss two FTs to take the lead and a wide open trey to win it.

Not sure if anybody cares, but the quality is very good, which pisses me off having to pay money to watch Villanova Football games in satisfactory quality at best on the internet.

Also, I thought all Big East games were televised? Surprised this one didn't get picked up by even a local TV station in NY.

Anyway, if anybody cares, here ya go......

www.atlantic10.com/mediaPortal/player.db...KEY=&DB_OEM_ID=31600

Bembry is a very good player. Folks who think he is NBA bound are a bit off in my opinion. Dude cannot shoot.

Hart is the best all around player in the city.

What would his stats be on the Hawks?

Again, like Bembry. Would love to have him. But he can't shoot. And you can't play the 2 in the NBA if you can't shoot.