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Villanova heats up in 2nd half, defeats Syracuse basketball in Jimmy V Classic. Mike Waters, syracuse. Gallego says it's 'past time' Sinema, Senate protect voting rights. October 30, Prior to the game, Georgetown had the opportunity to sneak into the Big East tournament, as the fourth and final seed, with a victory over Villanova and a UConn victory vs. However, if Georgetown can beat Richmond in their final game on Sunday, it would mark just the second winning season in program history. The game started under steady rain that continued throughout the entirety of the game.
Despite the weather conditions, Villanova came out strong and dominated the time of possession during the first ten minutes. Graduate midfielder Ali Cronin sent the ball to Stephenson who got a clean shot off but missed the cage just wide right. The first quarter ended with both teams earning a single corner. The second quarter began with an immediate odd man rush for Villanova and a cross inside the circle that led to a shot missing wide right.
McLain has yet to attend. He occasionally goes on phoning binges with old teammates and then seems to disappear. It was real. I was 22 years old, and I came hard at people. I said things, and I paid the price for saying them. He has been divorced for six years, but his year-old daughter, Jade Alexis McLain, lives nearby in Florida and stays with McLain every other weekend. He has worked since October for a company that places doctors in temporary positions. He says he wants to write a book about his life and perhaps to deliver his cautionary tale to kids.
On Sunday mornings he plays pickup basketball on a West Palm Beach playground. The discipline. The sense of family. That was no joke. I do look back sometimes. And damn, I was a champion. McLain remains mecurial. I texted him in early March and after getting no response, called his cell phone three days later.
We can talk then. Gary was unbelievable. They all want to talk about the bad stuff. He came to the November reunion and asked to sing the National Anthem teammates say McLain has a beautiful voice, but they talked him out of performing that night , and arrived at the Villanova-Northwood game wearing a black velour tuxedo and sneakers.
He will always be Giz. T he beige suits and yellow power ties have been swapped for Bermuda shorts and golf shirts. Here he often plays 27 holes or more a day and lunches with roundball cronies like Chuck Daly and Billy Cunningham. Golden Girls meets Dr.
Massimino, 69, looks healthier than the night he coached Villanova to the title, frightened into good behavior by a ministroke last spring. Massimino left coaching only last March, when he resigned after seven years at Cleveland State. Chuck Daly died five years later at age All those years I worked from early morning until late at night while my wife raised our family. In , arranging an interview with Massimino was problematic. Finally I wrote a letter and sent it via FedEx overnight to his home in Florida.
Two days later, he called me and invited me to come to Florida. During a two-hour interview he gets three calls on his cellphone, all from former players.
We laughed together, we cried together. It never got better than April 1, , for the man called Daddy Mass.
Well, it briefly got a little better. Of his last seven Villanova teams, however, only four made the NCAA tournament and just one advanced past the second round. Massimino was criticized in Philadelphia for not getting enough city recruits and for his ponderous style, which critics say was made obsolete by the shot clock.
What damned his relationship with Villanova in the end was the feeling—often rumored, seldom spoken publicly by anyone—that he had gotten too full of himself. That he had changed. Rollie always had a big ego. But after he won the title, more people were watching. There was one more stop. Actually, there would be another. His teams have a record in nine years. We even have pregame pasta meals.
Some of his former players have made a tradition of visiting Massimino on Super Bowl weekend and attending a Northwood game. So Chuck Daly was right. But still…. I can see that now. On Dec. A family portrait was snapped, on the floor, before the game. Next year, says Stack, a banner will be raised to the rafters in his honor, long overdue.
The banner was hoisted in Unlike all of his players from the miracle team, Massimino has never watched the entire championship game tape.
A little of the first half, a little of the second, but never the whole game and never the finish. Of course, you never know. That could be schtick. Editor, Time Inc. Sports Group: Paul Fichtenbaum. Executive Editor SI. Creative Director: Chris Hercik. Director of Photography: Brad Smith. Story Editors: Richard O'Brien. Deputy Design Director: Alicia Hallett. Interactive Web Developer: Louis Gubitosi. Designer: Erica Cotten. Terms under which this service is provided to you.
Read our privacy guidelines , your California privacy rights , and ad choices. Talk about a standout: The lanky Ed Pinckney would finish the championship game with 16 points, six rebounds, and a new status heading into the NBA draft. In his ninth season with the Wildcats, Rollie Massimino finally took them all the way. Massimino, a master motivator in games and practice, liked to say that the members of the Villanova basketball program formed a family.
It was a family that came together like never before in that final run of APRIL 4. Sixth man Harold Jensen had struggled with his confidence all through the season.
But the sophomore swingman would come up big in the tournament. A key member of the Villanova family during that season was year-old trainer Jake Nevin, wheelchair-bound with ALS, but there every step of the way.
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