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Let's Go Nova is no longer updated, but remains available in archive form.Go 'Cats!

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[Let's Go Nova is on summer break, but we will continue to update for important breaking news.]According to an ESPN report, former Wildcat Randy Foye will be traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Washington Wizards in a deal that includes the 5th pick in Thursday's draft.Says ESPN:The Washington Wizards are close to a deal that would send the No. 5 pick in Thursday's draft, Oleksiy

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[Let's Go Nova is on summer break, but we will continue to update for important breaking news.]At this point, the one-man Villanova video vanguard known cryptically as SeanDon needs no introduction.He also needs no second, supporting paragraph.His latest video, available below in the traditional embedded YouTube player, focuses on Villanova's Scottie Reynolds, he of the late-game NCAA tournament

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[Let's Go Nova is on summer break, but we will continue to update for important breaking news.]Scottie Reynolds has withdrawn his name from the NBA draft and will return to Villanova for his senior season, according to a press release from campus today. Last season, Reynolds led Villanova to its first Final Four since 1985, and then decided to test the draft waters in April. After working out

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Scottie Reynolds will enter his name to this year's NBA draft, according to a press release from Villanova University.Reynolds, a junior guard and arguably the Wildcats' most valuable player, does not plan to hire an agent, and thus his departure from the team is not yet certain.Reynolds will be able to attend draft workouts and gauge where he might be selected if he decides to remain in the NBA

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North Carolina was simply the better team tonight.The Tarheels won easily, putting away the Wildcats by a score of 83-69Villanova, which trailed by nine at the half, was able to cut the lead down to five early in the second period. Carolina, however, responded instantly, with a quick 5-0 mini-run to put the lead back to double digits.After that, the Tarheels never looked back.If North Carolina is

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#11 Villanova (30-7) vs. #2 North Carolina (32-4)8:47 p.m., 4 April 2009 at Ford Field.TV: CBSLine: UNC -7.5Game day has arrived.One week ago, Scottie Reynolds secured his place in history with a buzzer-beater to defeat Pittsburgh and send Villanova to the Final Four. It's been a fun week, looking forward to this game, Villanova's first Final Four since the 1985 championship season.North Carolina

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Yesterday, the Rush the Court college basketball blog asked me to contribute a guest post to its site on how Villanova could win on Saturday.Make no mistake about it: Villanova is the underdog tomorrow. North Carolina is favored by 7.5 points in Vegas and by 4 points by KenPom (with a 66 percent chance of victory).More intuitively, common sense tells us the Tarheels are the superior team. North

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Villanova's return to the Final Four, 24 years in the making, is now just over two days away.Game time is set for Saturday, April 4, at 8:47 p.m.Before we get into the more serious game previews tomorrow, allow me to give you that beloved mainstay of trashy MySpace sites everywhere, the blinged-out Flash countdown timer!See the top right sidebar for the high-tech countdown timer.Use this comment

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Even though the 2009 season is gloriously still ongoing for Villanova, Wildcat fans can get a sneak peak at two of the team's best incoming players for next season in the annual McDonald's high school all-American game tonight.Guards Maalik Wayns and Dominic Cheek, both Villanova commitments, will play together on the East squad.The game airs live tonight at 8 p.m. from the University of Miami,

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Bowing to pressure from an increasingly powerful gallery of anonymous commenters, the popular Villanova basketball blog Let's Go Nova will shut down immediately, according to the site's publisher.Though it would seem unusual to shutter the blog in the middle of a Villanova Final Four run, with site traffic setting new records every day, blog owner Pete @ LetsGoNova.com cited the sheer eloquence

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Well, not really. Although Villanova's 2009 Final Four opponent, North Carolina, represents a loaded memory to most Wildcat fans, none of the current Villanova players were around for the 2005 team's Sweet 16 loss to the eventual national champion Tarheels.The 2005 loss is a particularly brutal memory for Villanova fans, because the game turned on a very questionable -- "phantom," even --

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Villanova 78Pittsburgh 76(box score)[See end of post for video highlights.]Villanova defeated the top-seeded Pittsburgh Panthers tonight in Boston to earn a trip to the Final Four after one of the greatest, most epic, and most nerveracking games in Wildcat history.It was fitting that a game featuring a ridiculous 10 ties, 15 lead changes, and 66 AP photos would come down to two last-second shots

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#11 Villanova (29-7) vs. #4 Pitt (31-4)7:05 p.m., 28 March 2009 at the TD Banknorth Garden.TV: CBSLine: Pitt -2Villanova clashes with a very familiar opponent today in Boston for a Final Four berth.The top-seeded Pittsburgh Panthers have won 31 games, and were ranked #4 in the country in the last AP poll. But Villanova beat Pitt last time, and that was before the Wildcats began to look like a

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Villanova 77Duke 54(box score) #11 Villanova: 29-7 #6 Duke: 30-7Villanova put together another excellent 40 minutes of basketball on Thursday to absolutely dismantle the 2nd-seeded Duke Blue Devils in Boston. Villanova head coach Jay Wright thoroughly out-foxed the much-celebrated Coach K, whose Blue Devils had no answer for Villanova's high-pressure defense.The Wildcats advance to the Elite

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#11 Villanova (28-7) vs. #6 Duke (30-6)9:57 p.m., 26 March 2009 at the TD Banknorth Garden.TV: CBSLine: Duke -2.5Villanova returns to the Sweet 16 this year with a game against the Duke Blue Devils in Boston.The game, scheduled for 9:57 p.m., is the last of the four match-ups tonight and will be the featured game by CBS.In an ESPN poll today, 54 percent of voters listed the Villanova-Duke game as

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Well, this is not encouraging.The excellent Rush The Court blog attended Boston's open practice session today for all five mind-numbing hours, and files reports on each team's session.Though the nonpartisan Rush The Court blogger concedes that 'Nova's practice was "more intense" than the preceding Xavier session, it looks like that was mostly due to Scottie Reynolds, who initiated the team's

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UCLA 69Villanova 89(box score) #18 UCLA: 26-9 #11 Villanova: 28-7Villanova fired on all cylinders on Saturday to blow out a very good UCLA team and march on to the Sweet 16 next weekend. Not only was the game never really close; The Wildcats uncharacteristically played well for a full 40 minutes, the first time this season we have seen both the consistent effort and the results from this team

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#11 Villanova (27-7) vs. #18 UCLA (26-8)1:05 p.m., 21 March 2009 at the Wachovia CenterTV: CBSLine: Villanova -2Villanova returns to the Wachovia Center this afternoon to face UCLA for the right to go to the Sweet 16.UCLA has been to three consecutive Final Fours, but the Bruins appear to be a bit weaker this year, earning just a 6-seed and beating an upstart VCU by a single point on

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Villanova 80American 67(box score) American: 24-8 #11 Villanova: 27-7Villanova used a furious second-half run and some very accommodating officiating to hold off an American team that looked for much of the game like it might pull off a major upset.The Wildcats opened up limp in the first half and trailed by 10 at the break. Villanova would fall behind by as many as 14 points in the second half

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#11 Villanova (26-7) vs. American (24-7)7:20 p.m., 19 March 2009 at the Wachovia CenterTV: CBSLine: Villanova -17After a full season of resume building, RPI watching, bubble debating, seed calculating, and bracket plotting; of wishing, hoping, thinking, praying, planning, and dreaming, the NCAA tournament is finally here.Villanova, a 3-seed in the East region, draws the best possible geographic

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Every March, Let's Go Nova's favorite college basketball writer Pat Forde pens his best and worst cases column, where he outlines the wildest dreams and worst nightmares for all 64 NCAA tournament teams.Forde hit the nail on the head for Villanova last year, when his best-case scenario of Villanova beating Clemson and Siena before losing in the Sweet 16 came true to the letter.This year, he sets

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Sponsor: Calling all 'Nova fans! Watch ALL March Mayhem games at Buckhead Saloon. $2 U-call-its. Book a table for a FREE BEER TOWER. We have four projector screens and 15 plasmas. Call 215.925.8170.We've had a few days to digest the NCAA tournament bracket, and we can start to draw some conclusions about Villanova's draw to Detroit.At first, I was thrilled to find Villanova in the East

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The NCAA has just released the official bracket with game times (PDF). Third-seeded Villanova plays its first-round game against 14-seed American at 7:20 p.m. (EDT) Thursday at the Wachovia Center.This was an expected time slot for the Wildcats, because it made sense for the NCAA to slate 'Nova podmate UCLA 30 minutes following Villanova, at about 9:50 p.m. Eastern, or just before 7 p.m. in Los

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Villanova will play American University at the Wachovia Center on Thursday, March 19. Villanova, a 3-seed, faces the 14th-seeded American Eagles, champions of the Patriot League.Game time is yet to be determined, but since UCLA is from the West Coast, the Bruins will most likely get the 9:30 p.m. slot, leaving Villanova-American to start at 7 p.m.Villanova is in the East region (Boston), where

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