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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
'Nova on 'Big Monday' three times

ESPN just announced its schedule of "Big Monday" Big East basketball telecasts for the coming season. Villanova will appear three times. Here's the full schedule, with all games starting at 7:00 p.m.:

January 11: Villanova at Louisville
January 18: Syracuse at Notre Dame
January 25: Georgetown at Syracuse
February 1: Connecticut at Louisville
February 8: Villanova at West Virginia
February 15: Connecticut at Villanova
February 22: West Virginia at Connecticut
March 1: Georgetown at West Virginia

It's stating the obvious, but the people at ESPN and the Big East have a pretty good idea of what they're doing when it comes to picking featured games. I find it notable, though, that neither Villanova-Georgetown game will be on a Monday. Which probably means they'll be weekend games, but I guess we'll find that out soon enough.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald @ 4:55 PM  Permalink | File Under: National | | Villanova | 3 comments
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Posted 05:27 PM, 09/09/2009
*Callie*
Georgetown considers Syracuse a bigger rival than Villanova - I'm not surprised to see that game on Big Monday.
Posted 06:09 PM, 09/09/2009
RichNC
Man, I hope Tyler King can rebound. Go Nova!
Posted 10:39 PM, 09/09/2009
novacats86
thats a shame, georgetown is a catholic school they should be our top rival, too bad weve owned the cuse in recent years that georgetown syracuse game will be weak
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