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    • Villanova

    NEW YORK — Villanova faces 10/1 odds of repeating as the NCAA champion, according to Bovada.lv.

    Duke and Kentucky — both of which are loaded with freshmen, talented freshmen but freshmen nonetheless — are the only teams with better odds. (Kansas is also at 10/1.)

    If you ask Jay Wright’s Big East coaching brethren, they think Villanova has a good shot to get to the Final Four in Glendale, Az., and cut down the nets again.

    “I do,” Butler’s Chris Holtmann told me Tuesday at Big East Media Day. “I think they’re probably one of a handful of teams that you would look at right now on paper and say that if things go right for them, if they catch their breaks” they could repeat.

    St. John's, Uncategorized

    By ADAM ZAGORIA & DENNIS CHAMBERS

    NEW YORK — Chris Mullin has been keeping an eye on the social protests going on around the sports world and plans to sit down with his players soon to discuss potential options for the St. John’s basketball team.

    From Colin Kaepernick to Carmelo Anthony to players in the WNBA, protesting social injustice has become a major issue in pro sports over the last few weeks. And with college basketball season now underway, it is becoming an important topic at the university level, too. Virginia players already posted a photo on social media of the team kneeling in protest of social injustice.

    “Probably within the next week or so as a team, we’ll have a nice sit down, just a team meeting, little town meeting type thing, and get everyone’s feelings and just really use it as a teaching tool,” Mullin, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, said Tuesday at Big East Media Day at Madison Square Garden.

    Breaking News, Villanova

    For the third straight year, Villanova has been selected unanimously to capture the Big East regular-season crown in the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll.

    The reigning NCAA champion Wildcats received all nine possible first-place votes from the league’s head coaches and a total of 81 points in the poll.  Coaches do not place their own teams on their ballots.

    Meantime, junior guard Josh Hart was named the Big East Preseason Player of the Year.

    Hart and the Wildcats have been the outright regular-season champion in each of the past three seasons, compiling a 16-2 record each year.  For 2016-17, coach Jay Wright’s club will be aiming for an unprecedented fourth consecutive title.  Last year, the team was the Big East Tournament runner-up before marching on to win the NCAA Tournament title and capturing the eighth national championship in Big East men’s basketball history.  For the second straight season, Villanova set a school record for victories, finishing with a 35-5 record.

    Articles, Big East

    NEW YORK — Jay Bilas is a former Duke basketball player, an attorney and maybe the smartest man in the room when it comes to college basketball.

    So when he says it’s inevitable that the ACC Tournament will eventually come to Madison Square Garden, we should probably pay attention.

    “I always thought the ACC Tournament was the best tournament,” Bilas told SNY.tv prior to calling Louisville’s 78-61 victory over Syracuse in the Big East championship for ESPN.

    “This is the best tournament,  the Big East.

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