New York, NY – Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, St. John’s, (13-7, 5-4) in convincing fashion, completed their first season sweep of Villanova (11-8, 4-4) in 31 years. Johnnie’s center Joel Soriano returned to form leading all scorers with 21 points, en route to a 70-50 victory. Villanova’s leading scorers were seniors Eric Dixon […]
Kansas and North Carolina Head to NCAA Title Game
New Orleans, LA – Kansas and North Carolina advanced to the NCAA championship game with Final Four wins over Villanova and Duke in front of 70.602 fans at the Caesar Superdome. In the first game David McCormack scored 25 points on 10-of-12 shooting while Ochai Agbaji added 21 points as Kansas pulled away late in […]
Villanova Survives Late St. John’s Surge
Manhattan, NY – The St John Red Storm hosted the Villanova Wildcats Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden looking for their third straight victory. St John’s, down 20 (66-46) with 4:27 minutes left in the second half went on a 23-6 run to cut the lead to three points (72-69). Tareq Coburn would miss a […]
Villanova Welcomes Butler Back in Big East Win
Villanova, PA – The Butler Bulldogs (1-0) are largely an unknown at this point. They opened the 2020-21 season on November 25th with a shaky 66-62 victory over Western Michigan, but had yet to play since, after a member of their staff tested positive for COVID-19. The Bulldogs returned to action and opened Big East […]
Big East Tournament Semifinals
New York, N.Y. – The top four seeds in the Big East tournament slugged it out on Friday night in two semi-final games at Madison Square Garden in New York City with berths in the championship game at stake. By the time the second game ended on Saturday morning, Villanova and Seton Hall had survived […]
Big East Tournament: Day Two
New York, N.Y. – Day Two of the Big East tournament played out on Thursday with all four of the higher seeds holding serve in games that may have lacked for close endings, but certainly did not lack for star performances. VILLANOVA VS PROVIDENCE The top seated Wildcats began the day by riding the performances […]
Seton Hall Outlasts Villanova in Big East Upset
Newark, N.J. – The Seton Hall Pirates made a move to break a five-way tie for third in the Big East by defeating first place Villanova, 79-75, at the Prudential Center. Villanova was ranked No. 23 in the country coming into the game. The victory was the second upset this week for the Pirates who […]
Marquette Hands Villanova First Big East Loss
Milwaukee, WI – Markus Howard and Sacar Anim combined to score 56 of Marquette’s 66 points in helping the Golden Eagles eke out a 66-65 victory over Big East-leading Villanova on Saturday afternoon before a sellout crowd of over 17,000 in Milwaukee. The defeat, Villanova’s first in Big East play, snapped a 10-game conference winning […]
Villanova Runs Away From Michigan to NCAA Title
San Antonio, TX – Villanova pulled away from Michigan to win the NCAA men’s basketball championship with a 79-62 victory. Donte DiVincenzo had one of the best performances in an NCAA title game in quite some time, finishing with a game and career-high 31 points. Mikal Bridges added 19 points for the winners. Mohammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman […]
