The Big 5.5 Sports Thread

[ice grillin you]

nova up 18 in the fh at the carrier dome about to lose by 16

[Rome]

They scored 2 points in the seven minutes after they were up 25-7.

Total implosion, but give credit to Cuse... they made a run and never let up.

[ice grillin you]

cuse actually had a 20-0 run....havent seen that in a long time....hard to do

[Rome]

Nova's offense consisted of dribbling the ball up the court, standing there passing it around the arc for 30 seconds, then tossing up a three from a mile out or turning it over trying to get it inside.   It was pathetic, actually.

[ice grillin you]

just snagged tickets to this....

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/219573662.html


they still have $15 tickets left thru the temple box office

[MDS]

right now temple has 6 healthy scholarship players

fran dunphy doin work

[ice grillin you]

also hittin penn and the joe that same day at the palestra

gonna be ill

[ice grillin you]

second chance pts today at the liacouras

memphis - 19
temple - 0

thats hard to do

[MDS]

dunph already talking about 14-15 in the post game presser...go team

[ice grillin you]

been there a thousand times before but havent had as much fun at the palestra as i did yesterday for lasalle temple....you couldnt hear yourself talk it was so loud and that was with the tickets split...cant imagine what that place would be like jammed up with the entire building going crazy for the same team

the bars before the game were also so much fun with all the chants back n forth and shots a million....its almost a cliche at this point but its true that no other place in the world has something anywhere close to the big 5....its such a source of pride for the city and one of my favorite things in the world

if youve never been to the palestra you need to go once before you die....lasalle temple are doing it again next year which is probably a good time to pay a visit to the mecca

[Sgt PSN]

Sadly I've never been there.  Always wanted to, just never got around to it.  Might have to add it to the 2015 calendar. 

And yeah, Big 5 is one of a kind.  Too bad the city has a hard time fielding more than 1 really good team at a time.  Most people around the country don't even know the Big 5 exists and that's probably due to the fact that you hardly ever get 2 city teams that are ranked in the top 25 playing against each other.  In fact, a lot of people that I've met around the country over the years knew that all 5 schools played in the same city but never really put 2 and 2 together to realize that there's are 5 college programs within blocks of each other and were major rivals.    And most of them were like "That sounds really cool and all, but the teams just don't do anything for me." 

[ice grillin you]

cbb fans know the big 5....but yeah in general its phillys secret...altho espn did their part yesterday to spread the news...gameday was excellent

also countdown until the lil guy shows up to say how villanova isnt a city team

[Sgt PSN]

They are but they aren't.  Mostly, they're the token white guy.  Because if Nova is truly a city school, then that means that VFMA is straight hood, yo. 

[MDS]

villanova is as philly as dio

[ice grillin you]

lasalle tied at half with number 13 st louis.....espn2 for anyone who cares which is no one