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Kevin Willard didn’t have to imagine what the inside of the St. John’s basketball practice facility looked like in the days following their embarrassing 72-40 loss to UConn. He’s lived it. As an assistant coach for ten years under Rick Pitino when he led the Boston Celtics and Louisville men’s basketball, Willard experienced plenty of […]
In Saturday’s ACC Action, UNC topped Virginia Tech, 89-82; Clemson handled Louisville, 80-75; NC State bowed to Notre Dame in overtime, 96-90; Florida State got by Georgia Tech, 80-71; Miami hammered BC, 76-54; Pitt stunned Cal, 72-56; Wake Forest nipped Syracuse, 88-83; and Stanford spanked SMU, 95-75. NC State stuff, meet Will Wade. Will Wade, […]
There was so much uncertainty about how St. John’s would respond to their unspeakably awful 72-40 loss to UConn in the lead-up to Saturday’s game against Villanova. By the end of the night, it appeared like the result was always inevitable. As he always seems to pull off following a terrible loss, Rick Pitino worked […]
Let’s keep this simple, shall we? The Big East did us all a huge favor on Friday by advising us exactly what’s been settled for the conference tournament seeding heading into the final day of the 2025-26 regular season. UConn is already locked at #1, Villanova is locked at #2, and Providence — which happens […]
Welcome to the thread for Saturday’s St. John’s men’s basketball matchup against Villanova. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of the game. You can follow updates of this game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or on Rumble in the Garden’s […]
The eye test shows that Acaden Lewis is having a historic freshman year for Villanova. The numbers will also back that up as he continues to reach new heights in year one. During a victory against Butler on Wednesday night, Lewis dished out four assists, reaching 146 on the season. This set a new freshman […]
Villanova’s backcourt has been inconsistent over the course of the season — and this includes Devin Askew off the bench. The sixth-year transfer has struggled to find his shot in recent weeks, but when the team needed it the most, Askew stepped up. Leading 59-57 in the second half, Askew knocked down a three before […]
On Sunday afternoon at The Finn, Marquette women’s basketball gave up a 12-0 run to Villanova over about seven minutes of game time. That left the score at 14-2, and at the end of the period, it was 16-5 favoring the Wildcats. One of two things was then going to happen: Friends, it was Option […]
With three regular season games left to go, Marquette women’s basketball can finish anywhere between third in the Big East and tied for seventh. With the top five teams in the standings skipping the opening day tripleheader at the conference tournament, there’s an obvious advantage to being on that side of the line instead of […]
UConn men’s basketball (24-3, 14-2) will look to shake its recent struggles in a crucial game this weekend, as the Huskies travel to Philadelphia to take on Villanova (21-5, 12-3) at Xfinity Mobile Arena in a battle between two of the three best teams in the Big East. The Wildcats rank No. 27 in KenPom, […]
Villanova has a history of impact big men in the lineup — especially during title runs over the last decade. This year, Duke Brennan has taken on that role after transferring in from Grand Canyon, a team that Kevin Willard and the Terps knocked out of the NCAA Tournament last year. After taking the Villanova […]
Four-star guard and former Villanova target Adam Oumiddoch is back on the market. Oumiddoch announced on Tuesday that he will reopen his recruitment after decommitting from St. John’s. “I’m thankful to Coach Pitino, Coach Masiello, and everyone at St. John’s for the opportunity and belief they showed in me,” Oumiddoch wrote on social media. New […]
When you get an American Pope from Chicago that is a known lover of sports… you get really cool things. On Tuesday, Matt Norlander with CBS Sports reported that Notra Dame and Villanova will have both of their Men’s and Women’s basketball teams open the 2026-2027 season with a game in Rome. The two universities […]
Villanova found itself in a nine-point hole on its home floor to Marquette and once again, needed someone to play hero in the end. The Wildcats made just one field goal in a stretch that lasted close to nine minutes and this allowed Marquette to open a 66-57 lead. Over the final six minutes of […]
How much grace do you want to extend to Marquette men’s basketball on a night when they had a chance to shoot for overtime on the road against a team that is the unofficial #30 team in the country in the AP poll? This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad season for […]
Kevin Willard is now the head coach of Villanova and there are some Maryland fans who are still unhappy about it. It was a bit of a controversial split for Willard and Maryland last year. On Saturday, there was a contingent of Terps’ fans who sat around the Villanova bench as the Wildcats defeated Georgetown […]
Villanova is on a mission to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three years. The Wildcats have yet to crack the Top 25 this season, but currently sit at 18-5 and 9-3 in the Big East. According to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, Villanova is seen as a “likely” tournament team, sitting on […]
Malachi Palmer played sparingly early during his first season at Villanova. Palmer transferred in from Maryland after Kevin Willard made the move to become head coach of the Wildcats. After a lull in the middle of the season, Palmer has been getting a bigger opportunity and has been making the most of it. Guard play […]
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College basketball was quite different in 1988. The Age of Duke was just a few years old and no one understood that it was an historical epoch. Duke hadn’t even won a national championship at that point. And the old Big East was a monster. Georgetown and Villanova had won national championships. St. John’s was […]
The UConn men’s basketball team had just enough to beat Villanova, prevailing in overtime, 75-67, behind 24 points from Solo Ball and a heroic second-half effort from Alex Karaban. Karaban finished with 17 points and eight rebounds, but did not score his first basket of the game until the halfway mark of the second frame. […]
The No. 2 UConn men’s basketball team looks to keep things rolling in Big East play this weekend, as the Huskies return home to Hartford after a week off for a clash with Villanova (15-4, 6-2) on Saturday afternoon looking to extend their winning streak to 15 straight games and stay unbeaten in conference play. […]
Going into the December 29th loss to St. John’s, Marquette was sitting at #56 in the NET. The loss knocked them to #66. Beating Villanova got Marquette back to #54. Losing to Seton Hall didn’t really affect anything in that regard, but losing to Georgetown in what BartTorvik.com’s Game Scores says is the worst performance […]
If there was any lingering doubt that the Red Storm were a serious Big East contender, that was laid to rest on Saturday night. St. John’s bested Villanova on the road by a score of 86-79 to claim their fourth straight victory and sole possession of second place in the conference. After a back-and-forth first […]
Welcome to the thread for Saturday night’s St. John’s men’s basketball matchup against Villanova. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of today’s game. If you haven’t already, check out our game preview here. You can follow updates of Saturday’s game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account […]