Wow, a truly great win for Nova today at Penn Relays. Jordy Williamsz out kicked everybody 's all american Oregon's Ed Cheserek in one of the most memorable races in penn history. On the anchor leg, neither Williamsz or Cheserek wanted to lead and break the wind for the other guy so they literally came to a dead stop on the backstretch of laps 1 and 2. Williamsz used his speed to outkick Cheserek and give a little payback for losing yesterday i mthe DMR. Anchor time was a pedestrian 4:15 but it does not matter, it is all about winning.

Great win the cats. First time winning that race in over 20 years. They get the penn wheel. Great PR for Nova on NBC sports network.

Let's revolve this one around the Big Piece. Six game home stand vs FL/ATL. Scheduled to face five RHPs. So, he'll probably get the night off versus Alex Wood, but you never know with Sandburg.

Over/UNDER???

HRs: .5
HITS: 4.5
RBIs: 3.5
BBs: 1.5
K's: 6.5 (Added)
AVG: .225

Discuss.....

HS season over and now in AAU. Here are some recruiting updates of kids I mentioned in the articles I did a couple months ago.

Darryl Morsell soph guard Mount Saint Joe: Picked up his 1st 2 offers(Towson/Cal State Northridge)
Jalen "Sticks" Smith frosh 6-8 f Mount Saint Joe-playing well and up some weekends. Ohio State has now been in contact.
Montez Mathis Fr guard Mt Carmel-picked up an offer from Memphis
Bruce Moore-jr F McDonogh. 9 offers ranging from lower A10 to Patriot
Kurk Lee jr g St Frances: picked up a Western KY offer over the weekend. His dad played there for 2 years before transferring
Andre Rafus-6-8 soph-has left St Frances and will play at St Bens nxt year. still getting plenty of HM attention
Tyler Foster soph G Gilman- Gtown in strong pursuit
Luka Garza 6-9 F/C Maret School-Having foot surgery and will miss much if not all of the AAU season. Still has several A10 offers and also a Depaul offer from Big East. Heard he has a strange request for any University....he wants to live on the 2nd floor of the dorms
Khalil Richards jr guard St Frances. Transferring to Shiloh HS in Georgia. Kim Rivers will have him ready for D1.
Justin Gorham 6-8 jr Calvert Hall-No big offers yet but pilling up the Mid Major offers

Ouch! 7 for 32 for the series including tonight. I know he's not healthy, but that's rough.

Just read that we've offered him a scholarship - class of 2018.

http://www.bballspotlight.com/2013/04/video-profile-jahvon-quinerly-team-izod.html

Hartford Marriott - Downtown

Last year St. johns appointed their first ever lay person as President. St. Joe's did the same today. Does Nibpva have a oriest in the bullpen to replace Father Pete when he eventually retires or will we follow the trend of the two sju's?

There are 40 minutes available at point guard for us next season (and well, any season for that matter). Was curious to get a consensus on who's going to be running the offense.

My take:

Game 1
Archidiacono 20
Booth 10
Brunson 10

Game 30
Brunson 15
Archidiacono 15
Booth 10

Can't find the 'change' option ... thanks in advance for anticipated assistance.

In case you hadn't seen this from yesterday afternoon.
Have Michigan and Seton Hall played since they met in the National Championship game - that may have been interesting to tee up.

April 22, 2015

For 1 p.m. ET Release


Big Ten and BIG EAST Announce Matchups for Inaugural Gavitt Tipoff Games

Two prestigious conferences honor basketball visionary Dave Gavitt with season-opening event Nov. 17-20


NEW YORK – The BIG EAST and Big Ten Conferences today announced the matchups for the inaugural Gavitt Tipoff Games, with eight men’s basketball games set to air on FOX Sports 1, BTN, or an ESPN Network from Nov. 17-20, 2015.


The Gavitt Tipoff Games is an annual early-season series played between the two conferences and named in honor of Dave Gavitt, founder of the BIG EAST and basketball visionary. The BIG EAST home games will be telecast on FOX Sports 1, while Big Ten home games will air on BTN or an ESPN Network.

“Our family is excited about the Big Ten and BIG EAST launching this new series, which honors the memory of Dave Gavitt and his passion for college basketball,” said Dan Gavitt, NCAA Vice President of Men’s Basketball Championships. “He would be most pleased that the student-athletes, coaches and supporters of these historic college basketball programs can look forward to annual competition at the highest level to help open the college season with a bang. We are thankful to the two great conferences for recognizing the Gavitt legacy with the intra-conference games featuring new and old rivalries and intriguing match-ups.”

The annual series will feature renewed battles between local foes and attractive intersectional matchups. Eight teams in the inaugural event advanced to the NCAA Tournament and won at least 20 games last season.


Below is the complete schedule for the 2015 Gavitt Tipoff Games. Start times and specific television assignments will be announced at a later date.


Tuesday, Nov. 17

Georgetown at Maryland

First meeting since 2008-09


DePaul at Penn State

First meeting since 1984-85


Nebraska at Villanova

First meeting since 1998-99


Wednesday, Nov. 18

Illinois at Providence

First meeting since 2003-04


Thursday, Nov. 19

Creighton at Indiana

First meeting since 1974-75


Iowa at Marquette

First meeting since 1982-83


Rutgers at St. John’s

First meeting since 2012-13


Friday, Nov. 20

Xavier at Michigan

First meeting since 1988-89


Beginning in 2015 and scheduled through 2022, the Gavitt Tipoff Games will be played on four consecutive days in the first full week of the college basketball campaign. The series will span eight years, with games played at home sites. Each BIG EAST team will participate a minimum of six times, while Big Ten programs will take part a minimum of four times. Teams from both conferences already meet in some traditional rivalry games, and those matchups will continue in the upcoming seasons.


The unique series between the two conferences is named to honor the late Gavitt, who had a profound and lasting influence on the sport of basketball on the collegiate, professional and Olympic levels. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

QUADE HAD 18 POINTS TODAY....LEADING WE R ONE..WITH HIS OUTSTANDING BACKCOURT MATE DUVALL..........WE R ONE IS 6-1........QUADE AVERAGING ABOUT 17 PER GAME...AS A SOPHOMORE PLAYING UP.........CONNECTED ON FOUR......THREE POINTERS IN GAME....

i am working on trying to set up a post-season interview with Coach Wright in the near future.

in anticipation, I would like to see what questions folks on the board believe would be interesting topics of discussion.

please take a look at last years interview again to see if a question you may have this year was asked last year:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

This post was edited on 4/13 5:18 PM by ericw

best week in sports. National Championship game, opening day, and the Master's.

Who ya got?
Supposed to rain, course could be softer than usual.


I'm going Jimmy Walker at -14 to win.

Hield is coming back...

After reading up on him and watching some you tube clips I really like this pick up. Next year we will be a solid team, the following year we lose to experience 3 and a 4 year starter. Bringing in a guy who has played at this level is very important. He has had success and it seems because of his injuries he has not hit his ceiling. Saying that what I like most about him is that he had some length and height to the guard position. Also another guy who can guard multiple positions that fits into our switching defense.

I really like how the 2016/2017 team is shaping up. You are going to have one of our best backcourts with Brunson and Booth and Donte off the bench, you get wing players like Paschall, Hart, Jenkins and Bridges, all of which are capable shooters and bring different dimensions to the game (shooting, rebounding, defense, ability to create). That is going to be tough to guard. On top of that you will have Spellman another big who can post and spread the floor, hopefully an experienced Reynolds can give minutes as well. Would like to get another post guy and I think Stevens would be a good fit, spreads the floor, can drive and gives that extra effort.

We are shaping up for a long run of very good teams. I know its disappointing that we have not had the success in the tourney but with the caliber of players we have coming and are recruiting we will break through, its just a matter of time. Good times to be a Wildcat fan.

hire Utah State AD

Great effort. These relays are fun. Watch the Nova men win the DMR this afternoon.

crazy move

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 1m1 minute ago
Yahoo Sources: Providence guard Kris Dunn, a possible lottery pick, plans to return for his junior season

Officiallly retiring on Friday

Septa Student Brawl. another black eye for the worst city in the world.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150423_Student_brawl_at_SEPTA_station.html

Adam Zagoria ‏@AdamZagoria 28s28 seconds ago
Fordham Transfer Eric Paschall to Commit to Villanova http://zagsblog.com/villanova/fordham-transfer-eric-paschall-to-commit-to-villanova/…

Big 12 POY is coming back
Top 10 team

Quite a crowd at the banquet tonight - seemed like 700-800 people at the Pavilion to celebrate Villanova basketball and a great season.

The Most Outstanding Player Award went to Darrun Hilliard
Attitude Award went to Daniel Ochefu
Villanova Basketball Award (the highest honor) went to JVP.

Plenty of former players were there for the festivities.
The banquet came on the heels of a memorial service for Jack Kraft. His daughters were there and had some wonderful words to say about their father and Villanova.

The videos segments were great. Ryan Fannon gets a solid C+ for his MC work
There were plenty of 'Nova Nation VUSports folks in attendance - brill, ace, Beefer, UB57, Laurie, mojo, shananigans, PeterN, The Brothers Fig, worm, Z_Man, MANY more ...

I thought JVP and Hilliard did real good jobs with their Senior / Farewell speeches. They both nearly lost it in the middle ... the way they talk about Jay and the staff is really special.

I will let others provide more of the details and their thoughts.

I may have some quotes from the Senior's speeches some time tomorrow.