Villanova Wildcats Basketball
This is the article about the men's basketball team from Villanova University. The team has competed since the 1920–21 season. Nicknamed the "Wildcats", Villanova is a member of the Big East Conference and the Philadelphia Big Five. The Villanova Wildcats have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 30 times, the 8th highest total in NCAA history. They made the Final Four in 1939, 1971, 1985 and 2009, and were National Champions in 1985. Villanova has appeared in the NIT 17 times, winning in 1994, and won the Big East Tournament in 1995. Villanova entered the 2007-2008 season with an all-time winning percentage of .637, placing the Wildcats 20th among all NCAA Division I basketball programs.
Read more about Villanova Wildcats Basketball: Early Years (1920–1936), Al Severance Era (1936–1961), Jack Kraft Era (1961–1973), Rollie Massimino Era (1973–1992), Steve Lappas Era (1992–2001), Jay Wright Era (2001–present), Player Honors, NCAA Tournament History, NIT Tournament History, Year-to-year History, Basketball Hall of Fame, Retired Numbers and Jerseys, Villanova Career Records, Traditions
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)