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    • Villanova

    By ADAM ZAGORIA

    The 2019 Class for the Naismith Hall of Fame won’t be announced until the Final Four in April, but Big East coaches are already openly referring to Villanova’s Jay Wright as a future member of the Hall.

    “Obviously, Villanova’s been the standard-bearer in our league and rightly so,” Marquette’s Steve Wojciechowski said Thursday. “They’ve had outstanding teams and they got a Hall of Fame coach.”

    Wright, 57, is a slam dunk to make the Hall of Fame this year — “He will be [in],” one Big East coach told me — and when he does he’ll become the seventh active college coach in the Hall. Already in are Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, Kentucky’s John Calipari, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Kansas’ Bill Self and North Carolina’s Roy Williams.

    Breaking News, UConn, Villanova

    By ADAM ZAGORIA

    NEW YORK — Jahvon Quinerly helped give Jay Wright an early Christmas present on Saturday.

    After riding the bench for much of his freshman season, Quinerly finally got an opportunity to play significant minutes with Collin Gillespie out with a concussion. Ironically, Quinerly’s arm hit Gillespie’s head during practice on Thursday, causing the concussion.

    And under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden, the freshman out of Hudson (N.J.) Catholic rewarded his coach. Quinerly played 25 minutes and went for career-highs in points (10), assists (4) and steals (1), helping to guide the Wildcats to an 81-58 beatdown of former Big East rival UConn. He shot 2-of-8 from the field and 1-of-5 from deep.

    “It definitely felt good being back in New York, my family coming and seeing me play,” Quinerly said. “I just focused on my game. It was a big bounceback win for us. We lost at Kansas, so going into the Christmas break it’s a big win for us.”

    Quinerly’s previous career-high in minutes was 18, and his previous career-high in points was 9. He went through four DNPs and five games where he played fewer than 10 minutes.

    Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. native Eric Paschall led Villanova (9-4) with 21 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, while Phil Booth tallied 18 points, 7 assists and 7 rebounds. Joe Cremo added 11 points. The win snapped a two-game losing streak for the defending national champs.

    Villanova

    By ADAM ZAGORIA

    Jahvon Quinerly played 1 minute in Penn’s thrilling 78-75 upset of No. 17 Villanova on Tuesday night at The Palestra.

    After the game, a post appeared on his Instagram reading “Was my 2nd choice for a reason.” The post was brought to light when Ryan Bowman posted it on Twitter.

    As of Wednesday morning, the post is no longer on Quinerly’s Instagram.

    Whether Quinerly deleted it, or whether his account was somehow hacked remains unclear. But it will surely raise more questions about Quinerly’s future at the school.

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