bye, bye Nova
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I just think back how we had Wisconsin beat and we let it slip away. I hope we can get a couple other teams into the sweet 16. Many felt the BIG wouldn't get any.
Couldn't handle the Wisconsin size and strength inside. Did not shoot well enough to overcome it and took some questionable shots down the stretch.
As bad as that sounds I would take 7 straight years getting a NCAA bid as one of the best teams in the country.Few teams have that consistency.
true but its a kick in the balls to their fans that they continually are top 10 all year but tourney time is a different story...of course when you win a national championship it does overshadow that somewhat but its interesting to note their struggles overall in the tourney
The demise of the B1G is greatly exaggerated.....shows how if fans buy into the media hype about conferences doing well or not doing well, you can be easily fooled. Wisconsin not an 8 seed, but doesn't take away from their performance.
As far as Nova is concerned, this was one of their better teams in years past. If this was a year to be disappointed about going out early, this would the season. I don't think playing 6-7 kids would have beaten Duke next weekend, but surely would have been a game and very hot ticket in NYC.....the signs showed for Nova with a couple of clunkers late in season to Butler at home and a so-so semifinal and final at MSG last weekend in BE tourney.
As far as Nova is concerned, this was one of their better teams in years past. If this was a year to be disappointed about going out early, this would the season. I don't think playing 6-7 kids would have beaten Duke next weekend, but surely would have been a game and very hot ticket in NYC.....the signs showed for Nova with a couple of clunkers late in season to Butler at home and a so-so semifinal and final at MSG last weekend in BE tourney.
The Nova lost 2 key players before the season started. Amazing they were as good as they were. Testament to quality of players and coaching. Pains e to say it.
Except last year they lost in the Big East tourney and went on to win it all.
This says nothing about the Big Ten, or Villanova. It says Wisconsin is a good team that played better today. That's what a tournament is.
Now if Northwestern duplicates it, then we can start talking about the Big Ten.
Big East had 7 teams and in a few hours I think they are finished for tourney.
Villanova #1 = Fake news.
When Xavier loses to FSU later today the Big Least will have one team left in the NCAAs - Butler.
(Thanks Vegas - correction made)
When Xavier loses to FSU later today the Big Least will have one team left in the NCAAs - Butler.
(Thanks Vegas - correction made)
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When the Nova coaches were going into the tourney last year they thought this was the year they'd win it all. It's unfortunate that for them that they were missing some big piece that they were counting on for this year.
I'm not sure how big a deal Villanova's loss is. Wisconsin is a very good team that was poorly seeded. Xavier hammered FSU by 25.
Must be MTSU's facilities.
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/t...ractice-facilities-merged.82104/#post-1742337
Rutgers fans trying to take a program as successful as Villanova to task for their NCAA performance is about as rich as I gets around here. They play a great brand of team ball under wright. They had limitations this year regarding depth and size yet still had a terrific season after winning it all last year. Wisconsin played well and got villanova off their game particularly down the stretch. They
Big 10 making the most of some pretty terrible seeds. Clearly, the Big East and ACC were over-hyped. They got better seeds than Big10 but have crapped out at a higher rate so far.
Sigh ... Mr. Negative Nelly gets it wrong again.
Mulcahy did not fumble, and there was NOTHING RU could have done to get Wright once Villanova decided it wanted him, in part to keep RU from getting him.
Mulcahy targeted Wright, and targeted him HARD. As soon as this was obvious, Villanova swing into action. What most people forget is that Lappas (the Villanova coach at the time) and Wright shared the same lawyer/agent.
The timeline went something like this:
1) RU sees Wrighjt is available.
2) RU fires its current head coach (Bannon?)
3) RU negotiates with Wright - reaches a general agreement about the framework for a contract.
4) RU sends to Wright and his lawyer a contract for review.
5) Villanova fires Lappas (coming off several ocnsecutive years of winning records, but I think 2 straight years of NIT-only invites, not NCAA appearances - including back to back 19 win seasons, maybe?).
6) Lappas is hired by UMass - within 24 or 48 hours of being fired by Villanova.
7) Villanova hires Wright (within 24 or 48 hours of Lappas being hired by UMass).
And items 4 through 7 all happened within 3-4 days of each other.
The process was orchestrated by Villanova through the good graces of the lawyer of Wright and Lappas. There was absolutely NOTHGING RU or Mulcahy could have done.
I am pretty sure that the INSTANT RU contacted Wright through his lawyer/agent, a 3-way conversation between that lawyer, Villanova and UMass was begun. Almost certainly, Villanova was told that Wright was likely to go to RU, unless Villanova opened its pocket book for Wright - and did so by firing Lappas ... but that the lawyer probably told Villanova that it had to help find a soft landing spot for Lappas (after all, the lawyer could not ethically push Villanova to fire his own client, Lappas, unless Lappas was taken care of). Possibly this was driven by Wright, also, who who viewed Lappas as his mentor.
And after all, there is no way Lappas could have landed the head coaching job at UMass within 24 hours of being fired unless he had already been talking to UMass - which would only have happened if he was told in advance he was being fired from Villanova (after all, why would he purposely look to move DOWN a notch?).
Add to it, that by Wright's many time admission, the Villanova job was his dream job - including because his wife was Villanova grad, and a former Villanova cheerleader.
