Happy Game Day Nova Nation! Your Villanova Wildcats will play in their first game of the Big East Tournament today against a Providence Friars team that stomped all over Butler last night. Both of Villanova’s games against the Friars have had nail biter moments, and the final scores certainly weren’t indicative of how these games played out. A big reason for that is Providence’s head coach Ed Cooley.
If Jay Wright is the best coach in the Big East, Cooley may be a close second. In seven years with the Friars, he’s had them in the NCAA Tournament the past five seasons.