College Football Sunday Outlook

The "white-out" worked again to perfection in Happy Valley against Illinois. Penn State Derrick Williams' 241 total yards including a rush, a receiving, and a return touchdown helped Penn State improve to 5-0 for the first time since 2005 with a 38-24 victory.

Williams had the break out game that everyone at Penn State had been waiting for over the last four years. He's going to need more as the Nittany Lions begin a tough 5 game stretch, with four road games including at Wisconsin and at Ohio State. With the big win and the top 10 collapse, I'd expect Penn State to rise to 6 or 7. Just something to look at it, though I don't believe it hold a lot of value. Oregon State just dominated USC. Penn State beat Oregon State by 31.

Temple lost their homecoming game 7-3 at Lincoln Financial Field. It has been a tough year for Owls as 3 of the 4 losses have been by 4 points or less. 3 of those 4 games, they've held late leads. With quarterback Adam DiMichele going down last week against Penn State, it's going to be an extremely tough road for the Owls to get back into MAC championship contention. Temple travels to Miami of Ohio next week.

Lastly, there was a huge Football Championship Subdivision upset. #19 Villanova beat top-ranked Richmond 26-20 at Villanova Stadium. Nova ran the ball for 226 yards against Richmond. The big win will likely move Villanova way up in the standings. Villanova travels to William & Mary next weekend.

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College Basketball Round-Up

Conference Tournmanet time is here, or in the past for one City 6 School.

Drexel - Lost in the first round of the CAA tournament to Delaware. They finished the year 12-20.
Penn - No tournament. Will likely finish third in the Ivy League. It was their worst season in awhile.
Villanova - Will play Syracuse in the first round of the conference tournament on Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. as the #9 seed. The winner will face top-seed, Georgetown, on Thursday. Finished 19-11 in the regular season.
Temple - Temple earned the second seed in the A-10 tournament and will have a first round bye. They will play Thursday at 6:30 against the winner of #7 La Salle and #10 Duquesne. They finished the regular season 18-12.
La Salle - Will play Duquesne Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Finished the regular season 14-16.
Saint Joseph's - Earned the 5th seed and will play #12 seed Fordham. If the Hawks win, they will play #4 seed, Richmond. St. Joe's finished the regular season 18-11.

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Villanova was Robbed

Last night, Villanova was absolutely robbed on such a bullshit call by veteran official John Cahill to give Georgetown the win. In a game where both teams struggled to make shots, they found themselves knotted at 53 with 30 seconds left. Villanova had the ball and took the clock down. His errant pass was stolen and the official John Cahill called a phantom foul with only one-tenth of a second left. It was such an absolute joke and it was not the first time Nova was robbed this year -- see the N.C. State game.



Normally, I'm not one to blame losses on officials, but it seems over the last few months there have been a lot of questionable or phantom calls that have cost teams games.

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Villanova Wins! What a comeback!

Last night, Villanova went on a 35-13 run against LSU to erase a 21 point deficit and earn a victory at the Wachovia Center. I was there last night and the old saying goes, "its never over until its over". The Wildcats comeback run was led by freshman guard Malcolm Grant who scored 14 points in the final 3 minutes and scored 7 points in 14 seconds. Dante Cunnigham put back a Grant miss with 6 seconds left to give Villanova their first lead of the game, the final score 68-67.

Nova missed 15 of their first 20 shots. They also shot terrible from the first half. Scottie Reynolds and Reggie Redding combined for 3-18 shooting.

It was definitely one of the best first-hand experiences I've ever been a part of. I stick my motto of not leaving a game until it is officially over.

Box Score

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City 6 Round Up

Villanova was screwed. The Wildcats fell to the NC State Wolfpack 69-68 after the Old Spice Classic officials called a complete phantom foul on a 3 point attempt. Villanova played terrible, outside of freshman standout Corey Fisher, and still almost won.

Drexel took a share of the Philly Hoop Group Classic as they knocked off Loyala 54-52 to win the Liberty Bracket. They improved to 5-1 on the season. Seton Hall beat Virginia to win the Independence bracket.

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City 6 Round-Up

Villanova 70, Bucknell 64 - Down by 7 at the half, the Wildcats rallied behind a great second-half defensive effort and a career-high 12 points from Reggie Redding. He held John Griffin to 5 points in the second after Griffin scored 17 points in the first. Bucknell hit a team-record fifteen three-pointers.

Temple 73, Marist 69 - Temple got their first win of the season after they beat Marist by four in OT. Mark Tyndale scored 23 points, including shooting 13-14 from the stripe. Temple finished 7th place in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Classic. The A-10 schedule should be much nicer to them.

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City 6 College Basketball Round Up

Friday Night:

#25 Villanova beat Stony Brook 86-64 as Shane Clark scored 25 points.

Drexel beat UPenn 67-59 behind 18 points from Tramayne Hawthorne.

Temple lost to #7 Tennessee 80-63

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Morris Twins choose Kansas

The twins, Marcus and Markieff, chose Kansas over Villanova last night.
-Kansas City Star

Villanova is still in the hunt for other local top prospect, Tyreke Evans.

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