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bigfivepost.com - 2 hours ago
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WHAT: La Salle (3-1, 0-0 Big Five) at
No. 4 Villanova (5-0, 1-0 Big Five) WHEN: Today,...
3:30 WHERE: The Pavilion, Villanova TV: ESPN2 RADIO: ESPN-FM 97.5; WHAT-AM 1340 SERIES: Villanova leads, 32-26 LAST VILLANOVA WIN: 70-59, Dec. 14, 2008 LAST LA SALLE WIN: 61-58 (OT), Nov. 27, 2001 And, well, ...
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TODAY: La Salle at Villanova
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bigfivepost.com - 3 hours ago
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The Owls held Virginia Tech to 29.8 percent
shooting last night at the P in a Philly...
Hoop Group Classic game. It’s starting to look like a trend, really: Opponents are shooting just 37.0 percent this season against Temple, and only one of them — Siena, which had 69 — has scored ...
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Temple locks down to beat Virginia Tech at the P
bigfivepost.com - 4 hours ago
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Drexel may have at last found a solution
to its puzzling inability to put the ball in...
the basket: His name is Jamie Harris (pictured), and he’s a 5-10 junior guard from New York. Harris had 28 points on 9-for-17 shooting yesterday afternoon, and the Dragons beat Vermont, 74-61, in a ...
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Get this: Jamie Harris can score for Drexel
bigfivepost.com - 29 hours ago
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The Dragons host Vermont at the DAC this
afternoon, while the Owls welcome Virginia Tech to the...
Palestra tonight. Details on both opponents after the jump. * Drexel, which won its first game after three season-opening losses by beating Penn at the P on Tuesday, plays Vermont as part of the ...
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Drexel, Temple to play home games today/tonight
bigfivepost.com - 2 days ago
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Villanova freshman forward/center Mouphtaou Yarou, who was sent
home from Puerto Rico with what was described as...
a viral infection just before the Wildcats’ began playing in a tournament down there last week, is still being evaluated by doctors to determine the origins of the illness, the ...
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‘Nova’s Yarou still out with infection
bigfivepost.com - 3 days ago
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Dick Jerardi of the Daily News reports that
both Penn and Drexel played hard last night. And...
clearly, both teams are banged up. There were no style points given out at the P — for that matter, there were very few points, period. They somehow combined to go 0-for-19 from the arc. Drexel was ...
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Drexel beats Penn on the floor — and with rollouts
bigfivepost.com - 3 days ago
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The Owls had little trouble last night at
the Liacouras, and from the looks of things, this...
was a fundamentally sound victory: 23 assists on 27 field goals and only eight turnovers, two of which came well after the outcome was no longer in doubt, according to the Daily News. Lavoy Allen had 16 ...
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Temple easily handles Ball State, 66-46
bigfivepost.com - 3 days ago
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You buy Playboy for the articles, right? Of
course you do. And you know you were looking...
forward to their college basketball preview issue — and not just to browse though the “Girls of the Big East” feature spread, or some such. Of course you were. Well, if you’re a ...
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Jay Wright appears in Playboy
bigfivepost.com - 3 days ago
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Two games tonight involving three city teams. We’ll
break ‘em down for ya after the jump. *...
Penn (0-3) and Drexel (0-3) meet in their annual University City Battle, this time at the Palestra. Last year, the Dragons won, 66-64, up the street at the DAC in an early morning affair that ...
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Temple to host Ball State, Drexel visits Penn
bigfivepost.com - 4 days ago
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The Hawks managed just 51 points in a
58-51 loss to DePaul in the Paradise Jam’s third-place...
game last night in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The defeat prompted head Hawk Phil Martelli to say, “Today was a mental challenge,” according to the Daily News. He went on to say ...
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Saint Joe’s succumbs to ‘mental challenge’ in loss to DePaul
bigfivepost.com - 4 days ago
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The Hawks led No. 7 Purdue by nine
early, and they only trailed by one at the...
half, but the Daily News says the Boilermakers turned up the defensive pressure and rolled to an 85-60 win last night in the semifinals of the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. All told, Saint ...
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Saint Joe’s worn down by Purdue, gets DePaul tonight
bigfivepost.com - 5 days ago
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OK, we’ll fess up. We were among those
who harbored a doubt or two about Your Villanova...
Wildcats despite their lofty ranking in the national polls to start this season. But our reasoning seemed sound: We just didn’t think the ‘Cats had enough up front to compensate for the ...
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Pena brings it again as ‘Nova beats Ole Miss
bigfivepost.com - 5 days ago
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The Explorers beat Tulane, 61-59, yesterday to earn
fifth place in the eight-team Charleston Classic, but coach...
John Giannini nonetheless called it La Salle’s worst game of the year, according to the Daily News. “We missed free throws, we gave up two baskets off not boxing out on ...
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La Salle wins ‘worst’ game
bigfivepost.com - 6 days ago
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The Wildcats plays Mississippi in the title game
of the O’Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off, while...
the Hawks gets No. 7 Purdue in the semifinals of the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. We know, we know: We told you Saint Joe’s-Purdue was last night. But we were ...
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Villanova, Saint Joe’s to play tonight
bigfivepost.com - 6 days ago
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Here’s how ugly it was last night in
the first game of the season at the P-spot:...
Penn and Delaware combined to shoot less than 50 percent (16-for-34) from the line over the course of two overtimes. And they shot 92 free throws total for the game. 92! Oh, and Penn led by as many as 18 [...]
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Missed free throws, blown lead for Penn against Delaware
bigfivepost.com - 6 days ago
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Fran Dunphy’s way of getting the Owls to
forget what happened Tuesday against Georgetown was to re-live...
every second of it. According to The Inquirer, the Temple coach had his players watch every frame of tape from the Georgetown game to prepare for last night’s home-opening tilt at ...
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Big win for Temple against Siena
bigfivepost.com - 6 days ago
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We’ll get to the Temple and Penn games
from last night, as well as to the mistake...
we made about Saint Joe’s — the Hawks play No. 7 Purdue tonight, not last night, as we told you here and here — but first we’re going to give you our quick preview of La Salle’s ...
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La Salle to play Tulane right about now
bigfivepost.com - 6 days ago
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The Owls and the Quakers are both set
for their first games on their respective home floors...
tonight, while Saint Joe’s gets No. 7 Purdue down in Paradise. After the jump, let’s take a look. * Temple (1-1) has had four days to put that disappointing loss down at No. 19/20 Georgetown ...
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Home openers tonight for Temple, Penn; Saint Joe’s gets ...
bigfivepost.com - 6 days ago
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About all you need to know about Drexel’s
58-56 loss to Rutgers up in Piscataway, N.J., last...
night is this: The Dragons shot just 26.6 percent, and the Scarlet Knights’ Gregory Echenique dropped in a game-winning finger-roll with just 1.9 seconds left to win it. Not good. “What ...
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Drexel still can’t shoot, loses to Rutgers at buzzer
bigfivepost.com - 6 days ago
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OK, so this isn’t the Davidson that was
the NCAA tournament’s darlings two years ago and the...
sport’s national TV regulars from last season. Stephen Curry, after all, has taken his high-wire act to the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. Davidson still likes to launch 3s, but the ...
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La Salle gets balance to get by Davidson
