NEW YORK -- What do you call a Villanova team that loses four stud players to the NBA?
The preseason favorites, that’s what.
Yes, for the fifth consecutive season the Wildcats landed in the penthouse suite of the BIG EAST’s Preseason Coaches Poll, it was announced at the conference’s media day at Madison Square Garden. No Jalen Brunson. No Mikal Bridges. No Donte DiVincenzo. No Omari Spellman. No problem, at least according to league coaches who are going to have to deal with head coach Jay Wright’s program head on again this season.
“The league might be a little more wide open but you still got to beat Villanova,” Providence Friars’ head coach Ed Cooley said.