The Big 5 is alive. It’s not the same without Jay Wright at Villanova. Kudos to the Quakers for pulling off an upset at the Palestra.
Wow - Penn 76 Nova 72
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Starting to get a little worried about Nova. I was willing to give this new coach some time and get his players for his system. This program seems to be going backwards. Will wait to mid January to see where they are headed but so far it doesn't look good.
Penn had the leading scorer in the Ivy League last year and lost him to St. Johns for NIL issues. I am not sure if any of the Penn players this year would see any meaningful minutes for Nova. A crazy upset.
It's a shame a school like Penn, whose alumni are some of the wealthiest people in the world, is not allowed by the IVY league "rule" to spend some NIL money. Can you imagine the team they could buy?
You would think a school that has Wharton, one of the best B schools in the country, would use that knowledge and help the sports programs out.
It's a shame a school like Penn, whose alumni are some of the wealthiest people in the world, is not allowed by the IVY league "rule" to spend some NIL money. Can you imagine the team they could buy?
You would think a school that has Wharton, one of the best B schools in the country, would use that knowledge and help the sports programs out.
Are you an actual college sports fan? Do you understand what student-athlete means? Anyone that would throw away an Ivy League (except Cornell) education for a bit of NIL is an idiot. It's too bad I didn't come across you on Friday!
Villanova has zero inside presence and hoisted 33 3's, most of them rushed and contested because their ball movement was horrendous. Penn got a number of fortunate shots to fall with the shot clock running out or shots in the lane that were heavily defended that somehow fell. But in these upsets, you need shots like that. Nova added a couple of decent players in the portal but last night showed that there's still a lot of cohesion needed. When you have a number of transfers and you're a power 5 team, this is the time of the year to get the upset.
I think you're overestimating the number of non-legacy basketball studs that could get into Penn.
Thank you for taking it with the slight tongue-in-cheek angle it was meant (the NIL part)......but imagine if the Ivies backed the NIL, recruited the best prep-school athletes who were not 1 and ones, developed and paid them over 4 years class on class (think Duke light).....could have one heck of a product in basketball (where they are still in Division 1). The IVY league money makes the texas oil money look like pocket change.Are you an actual college sports fan? Do you understand what student-athlete means? Anyone that would throw away an Ivy League (except Cornell) education for a bit of NIL is an idiot. It's too bad I didn't come across you on Friday!
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