Villanova

Wright A Finalist For Naismith Coach Of The Year Award

... WCC tournament championship. • Named WCC Coach of the Year for the 11 th time. • The Gonzaga men’s basketball program lost 70% of its points, 65% of its rebounds from last season’s team and welcomed nine new players for this season. • Few has guided the Bulldogs to a 32-1 record thus far, which marks their 10 th straight season with at least 25 wins, and third 30-win season in program history. • Gonzaga had its second number-one ranking in program history this season, and earned the top seed in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament. Bill Self. • Self led Kansas (28-4) to its NCAA-record-tying 13 th-consecutive Big 12 regular-season title. • Had an 18-game winning streak, and was 5-0 against teams ranked in the top-10 this season and 4-0 against top-five opponents. • Self was named the 2017 Big 12 Coach of the Year earning conference coach of the year accolades for the eighth time in his career and the seventh time at Kansas. • The Jayhawks earned ...

Women's Basketball Travels To Drexel For Second Round Wnit Game Sunday

... Drexel sideline when the Wildcats and Dragons meet on Sunday afternoon. Drexel is coached by former Villanova star Denise Dillon who played for Harry Perretta and the Wildcats from 1992-96. Dillon currently ranks ninth all-time on both the Villanova scoring (1,355 points) and rebounding lists (677). As a junior and senior, she helped lead Villanova to a 40-16 (.714) record. She was a first team All-Big Selection as a junior and a second team honoree as a senior. Dillon also served as a Villanova assistant coach under Perretta from 1997-2001. Sunday will be the sixth meeting between Perretta and Dillon. Perretta is 4-1 versus Dillon and the. Dragons. The last meeting came last year in the first round of the Lehigh Thanksgiving Tournament when the Wildcats tallied a 67-55 win on Nov. 28, 2015. Villanova’s top three-point shooter is Adrianna Hahn who is currently 84-of-200 from long distance for 42.0 percent. Hahn averages 6.4 three-point field goal attempts per game and she makes an average of 2.7 per contest. She currently ranks second in the Big East in both threes made and three-point percentage. Despite being ...

Maryland Men’s Lacrosse Falls To Villanova, 13-12, For Its Second Straight Loss

... early struggles doomed them. Three times in the opening quarter, a Maryland player launched an errant pass from behind the net, leading to a transition opportunity for Villanova. The first, which flew over long pole Nick Brozowski's head about four minutes in, allowed the Wildcats to take a 1-0 lead on the counter attack. After midfielder Connor Kelly leveled the score with an unassisted strike, Villanova exploded for five unanswered goals to jump ahead, 6-1. As the Terps battled back, they continued to make unforced mistakes. In the second period, Rambo, who committed three turnovers after having four giveaways two weeks ago at Notre Dame, passed the ball to Villanova defender Jordan Cunningham. Again, the Wildcats charged down the field for a score, extending their advantage to 7-3. "We were messing up on our fundamentals," Muller said. "We were letting them dictate the pace. They had a few fast break ...

A Villanova Era Is Cruelly Over As Reality Sets In For Seniors

... give credit where credit’s due. You can say what-ifs for however long you can, but you got to give them credit.”. Jenkins, who shot 2-of-13 against Mount St. Mary’s and 2-of-9 Saturday, understood why the ball and the season and the defending championship ended up in the hands of the Big East Player of the Year. “We got Josh making a play at the end of the game. … That’s what we wanted,” Jenkins said. “Take that every time.”. Hart, Jenkins and Darryl Reynolds had won 129 games across four years. Just not 130. “We had the best four years we could ever dream of,” Hart said. “Obviously it’s tough right now, a tough pill for everyone to swallow, but we’ve had four great years, and this program’s going in the right direction, and that’s something that we’re even more proud of, more than the victories or anything like that.”. Reynolds sat in another cubicle across from Hart and Jenkins with tears in his eyes and a voice cracking with emotion when he said: “We thought and hoped we’d be playing all the way through.”. ...

March Finally Gives Us Some Madness As Wisconsin Ousts Villanova

... region of doom. Which situation do you think Duke would rather have right now. 2. Wisconsin was painfully under-seeded. Nothing to take away from Wisconsin here, but the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament had no business playing the Badgers in the second round of the Big Dance. This was one of the wonky seedings the selection committee flat-out got wrong. They finished above Minnesota in the Big Ten standings, beat the Golden Gophers twice in the regular season, and still found a seed that was three spots lower. Wisconsin struggled to play consistently over the back portion of its schedule, which is a huge reason for its seed-slide. But this game proved that it was worthy of a higher seed that more closely aligned with its play earlier this season. It could have easily been a 5-seed, just based on body of work and what it accomplished in the Big Ten. But instead, it fell to an 8-seed where it was a single-digit underdog in the round of 32 ...

From The Last Guy Who Did

... Gators were the last to do it, and the coach of that team, Billy Donovan, has some simple advice for Jay Wright’s Nova bunch. Avoid distractions like the plague. “Being able to eliminate the distractions and focus on the things that are important and you can have control over, that’s what really is important,” Donovan, now the coach of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, said of No. 1 Villanova’s challenge that begins Thursday in Buffalo against Mount St. Mary’s. After winning in 2006, Donovan directed a veteran lineup in 2007 that was loaded with experience and talent, containing future NBA pros Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Corey Brewer and Taurean Green, plus D-League and Euro League player Lee Humphrey. “Our team was different because we had the entire starting five coming back and our team in a very, very small way changed. It was really the same group of guys,” Donovan said Wednesday in a phone interview. “There’s so much attention and focus because people use the terms ‘repeat’ and ‘they’re national champions’ and all those things that can be distractions.”. SEE ALSO. Villanova ...

Uw Vs. Villanova In Ncaa Tournament

... shooting 8-2 and leading by only 3. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:23:56 PM. Gard to #Badgers : "We've got to finish the possession." Talking about grabbing the D rebound. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:27:31 PM. #Badgers Hayes with 1 FGA so far. Bet he gets a touch on this trip. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:29:32 PM. Pritzl in for #Badgers. Gard looking for a spark. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:30:06 PM. Worthless prediction: #Badgers Iverson appears ready to make a big jump after this season. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:37:10 PM. Wildcats can't keep shooting this poorly, can they? #Badgers lead, 27-23, with Iverson at line for 1 (3:25). by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:38:59 PM. Nova close by hitting 6-8 from FT line and a 9-0 edge in second-chance points. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:39:47 PM. #Badgers have allowed EIGHT offensive rebounds. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:42:19 PM. This reminds of ND last year. #Badgers with 8 TOs. by Jeff Potrykus via twitter 3/18/2017 7:45:04 PM. Iverson's activity on board draws foul with 12.6 left and Koenig buries a J with 2.4 left for 31-27 ...

Villanova Eliminates Princeton Women In Nit Tournament

... these pieces better, to get the new guys in and sort of put five better pieces out there.". Princeton women fall to Penn in Ivy championship. Down six points at the half, Princeton cut the deficit to two early in the third quarter, but Villanova took a five-point lead into the final quarter. The Tigers got as close as two points, 55-53, with 1:40 to play, but Nova closed out the scoring with a 3-pointer and one of two free throws. "This was another chance for us to play together,' junior Leslie Robinson said, scoring 14 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. In 35 minutes. "When it's all said and done, we're a hard-working team. We aren't that skilled in some areas, but I think the heart and hard work we put in we pride ourselves on, and if we take that and add skill to it I think next year we'll be the team we want to be.'. Villanova, which takes more long shots than a blind handicapper, was off the mark in the opening half, missing 15 of 17 from somewhere out near Nassau Street. ...

Divincenzo's Double-double Helps Lift Wildcats Past Mount St. Mary's 76-56

... sank three free throws. But Brunson - whose eight first half points helped get Villanova going - was whistled for his second foul with 3:10 left in the period. The Mount held a 25-22 lead at the 2:49 mark. The Wildcats gained their first lead of the night with 1:23 to play in the period and took a 30-29 advantage into the locker room at halftime courtesy of a Brunson driving basket on the final possession of the period. Brunson led VU with 10 points in the half while Miles Wilson led all scorers with 13 points for the Mount. Both teams converted 40 percent of their attempts from the field but Villanova was just 1-of-9 from beyond the 3-point arc (.111). Mount St. Mary's scored on its first possession after intermission but the Wildcats settled into a better offensive flow from that point forward. They drained 4-of-5 from the field in the opening minutes of the second half and used a 10-0 spurt to gain control of the contest. A Di Vincenzo 3-pointer with 15:01 remaining in the contest gave VU a ...

What To Expect From Villanova-wisconsin

... Big Ten teams used on him to good effect down the stretch. He has great footwork around the rim, but is no threat beyond 5 feet and is a terrible free-throw shooter (49 percent). Second-team all-Big Ten point guard Bronson Koenig (97 threes, 90.2 percent free throws, 39 percent from the arc) might be the best big-shot player in college basketball. If it’s close late, Villanova is going to want anybody but Koenig shooting. I can see Mikal Bridges guarding him much of the game. Power forward Hayes was the preseason conference Player of the Year. He did not have a great season by his standards, ending up third-team all-league. All of his numbers were off. He shoots just 59.8 percent from the foul line, but he looked very awake against V-Tech, shooting 8 for 9 from the line on his way to 16 points and 10 rebounds. Zak Showalter, a tenacious wing defender, shoots 41 percent from the arc and is the kind of player who helps good teams win. Wisconsin is the kind of team a No. 1 seed usually sees in the Sweet 16, so this is a very dangerous second-round game for the Wildcats. That said, Villanova is the No. 1 overall seed for a ...