The refs didn't bail them out.  Their opponent didn't bail them out.  And the Wildcats played another piss poor game in this NCAA tournament.  The difference: they lost this one.  Sadly it shouldn't take luck for Nova to beat the teams they faced in the first two rounds. I honestly don't even know where to start. Everyone saw this coming.  They sucked down the stretch of the regular season.  They sucked in the first game of the tournament, with two starters having to be disciplined … [Read more...]

This isn't going to be long, because that game (and watching my alma mater Notre Dame lose) took a lot out of me. Let's get one thing straight: Robert Morris deserved to win that game, and Nova deserved to lose. They wanted it more, they were more prepared, they played with passion. Meanwhile, Nova had 2 starters benched for not bothering with the scouting report and then had those 2 starters go out there and put up a 4-19 from the field. They played like they were on ice skates and their … [Read more...]

There has never been a March Madness tournament (in it's current form, since 1975) without a team representing Philadelphia. This year, the streak continues as both Villanova and Temple were in the field when the brackets were announced. I thought that both teams should have been 3-seeds (as did many of the bracketologists), but the committee put Nova at a 2-seed despite losing 5 of their last 7, and put Temple at a 5-seed, despite winning their conference tournament and ranking 9th in the … [Read more...]

Only a day after being handed the Big East lead following a Syracuse upset, Villanova gave it right back in a very sloppy, poorly played contest against UConn that looked frighteningly like their loss to Georgetown last week. When this Nova team is playing bad, they are tough to watch. They try to play too fast and often look like they are on ice-skates, losing the ball, throwing it away and forcing shots. This particularly iteration had a couple stand-outs: Taylor King - I don't … [Read more...]

It wasn't a huge deal when Villanova lost to Georgetown on Saturday. Nova wasn't going to go undefeated in the Big East and losing to the #8 team, on the road, in the midst of giant blizzard that resulted in travel problems is completely understandable. However, that loss did make tonight's game against West Virginia more important. These were the first 2 really tough Big East games for Nova, and if they lost both they could go from Final Four contender to part-of-the-pack in the Big East … [Read more...]