PHILADELPHIA -- Back when he first started at Villanova, Jay Wright would walk into the postgame press conference after a Big 5 game, chuckle to himself, smile and shrug.
“That was a typical Big 5 basketball game," he’d say.
That meant it was squirrely and unpredictable, a dogfight from the opening tip to the final buzzer.
He tries to say the same thing now, but the words ring hollow. In the City of Brotherly Love, Villanova is more like the big brother who gets his kid brother in a half nelson and gives him a noogie.