Thursday's Action.

[NovaBall]

Big east getting tons of love from ESPN today

Jay Williams putting arcidiacono in the NBA. Lots of Kris Dunn love. Xavier getting its respect.

Big east are media darlings come basketball time. A nice alternative to the football talk from the fall.

[NovaBall]

Nova strength:
Defense (half court and diamond press)
Transition offense
Toughness

Weakness:
Half court offense.

[NovaBall]

And there is the diamond press and here come the turnovers

[NovaBall]

nova's half court offense is not good. Spread and chuck is not a reliable offense, is inconsistent, and lazy.

Fortunately the defense and transition offense are A+, which will hide our lack of half court offense for much of the season. But if we drop one early in the dance this year my money is on us being limited to the half court set and the chucks not falling.

[anXUfan]

Lots of top 25 upsets today. Looks like the Big East may avoid them.

[NovaBall]

Nova getting sleepy with the double digit lead. Need to tighten it up or else it will get close late.

[NovaBall]

Turned into a #businesslike blowout, but nova has a lot of work to do this year.

[Westbrook#36]

That was U-G-L-Y. What did we shoot?, like 27% or something? (Just checked, 30.6%) Got out rebounded by 20, gave up 20 offensive boards. Normally with stats like that you get smoked.

[marquette]

Nice work by both X and Nova in bringing home a couple more F5 scalps. Finish off the night, PC.

[Jet915]

That Nova game was ugly but a win is a win. Hopefully PC can pull through.