Villanova 55, Seton Hall 53 NEW YORK — Villanova hung on for a narrow 55-53 victory over Seton Hall in Friday’s Big East semifinals in one of the more interesting games in the entire tournament. Seton Hall was in control for the majority of the…
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BY SHANE DAVIES NEW YORK — The Big East Tournament tipped off on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden with two first-round games that offered varying levels of intensity. Since rebranding to a 10-team conference back in 2013, the conference has struggled to maintain the traditional…
BY SHANE DAVIES The 35th annual Big East Tournament tips off Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City and will continue through Saturday’s championship game. The winner of the tournament will receive the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, and the…
Creighton raced to a 93-58 victory at DePaul on Saturday, and the Bluejays had a handful of highlight reel plays in the process. Khyri Thomas got the dunk party started, earning a “#SpecialDelivery” from color commentator Dickey Simpkins. Then Marcus Foster threw down the dunk…
Creighton shot the lights out Saturday to defeat DePaul 93-58. The Bluejays shot an impressive 60% from the field in the first half and carried their hot hand over into the second half shooting 61% from the field for the game. “We executed our game plan…
DePaul has not defeated Georgetown in a regular season matchup since 1994. On Tuesday, the streak nearly ended, but a Tre’Darius McCallum 3-pointer to send the game to overtime was off the mark as the Hoyas prevailed with a 76-73 victory. The Hoyas (13-10, 4-6 Big…
DePaul had lost seven of eight coming into Saturday’s tilt with No. 13 Butler, putting forth a series of efforts as weak as the January sun. But for almost 40 minutes against the Bulldogs, the Blue Demons seemed to have found a bright spot in…
Allowing 12 first-half 3-pointers was only the start of the problem. DePaul really fell apart in Saturday’s 83-58 loss at Marquette when the Blue Demons allowed their defensive struggles to dictate how they ran offense. “Obviously we didn’t do a really good job of closing…
Eli Cain’s cold spell continued Friday as DePaul fell to Missouri State 69-58 in the consolation game of the Las Vegas Classic. One night after a 72-58 loss to Wyoming where he shot 2-of-18 from the field, Cain made only 1 of his 10 shots…
Wyoming used a 22-5 run in the second half Thursday to pull away from DePaul for a 72-58 win at the Las Vegas Classic. DePaul (7-5) led for most of the first half before Wyoming tied it up 29-29 at the break. The Blue Demons scored…