By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Hours before Saint Joseph’s celebrated its most successful season in a while at the annual women’s basketball awards dinner at Drexelbrook, the Hawks dominated the Big Five women’s awards announced Tuesday afternoon. Senior Chatilla van Grinsven was named player of the year, while coach Cindy Griffin, who guided the Hawks [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women It was a big night to celebrate as these pictures illustrate from our seven PhilahoopsW teams who will continue to play on. Your Guru was drafted to provide some help to his former paper at The Inquirer to help with print coverage which can be found at philly.com but an [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Villanova and Penn State did not totally complete their goals this weekend but undoubtedly will see their names flash on the screen next Monday night when ESPN and the NCAA roll out the 64-team field and pairings for the women’s tournament. Rutgers at this hour is in limbo – not [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women In the six seasons Penn State’s Coquese Washington has guided the Lady Lions back to national prominence, the one thing that has been elusive has been the Big Ten tournament title. The last two previous seasons the eighth-ranked Lady Lions have returned to the Big Dance, losing a second-round home [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Here are the key combined performances to date thru Friday, Mar. 8, involving teams in our PhilahoopsW group. At some point in time soon, this file will be enhanced and placed in a special area. As long as this list has gotten, search on the date of the previous day [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women PHILADELPHIA – Two rivals who hooked up at the end of the Atlantic 10 tournament will meet each other in one of the four opening round games at Saint Joseph’s Hagan Arena Friday when 10th-seeded Temple (12-17, 5-9 A-10) meets seventh-seeded Xavier (13-15, 7-7) in the 5 p.m. contest. Temple [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Four years ago there were moments when veteran Villanova coach Harry Perretta, the dean of the Big East mentors, wondered as his Wildcats struggled to win games whether he was still recruiting the right people. “I guess we’ll know if they improve year to year,” he sort of answered himself. [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women On the 10th anniversary of Villanova’s greatest moment the Wildcats came up with another signature win in history Saturday while Rutgers, one game removed from a milestone triumph for Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer, turned in another signature setback in Big East competition and has its NCAA hopes [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Here are the key combined performances to date thru Sunday, Mar. 3, involving teams in our PhilahoopsW group. At some point in time soon, this file will be enhanced and placed in a special area. As long as this list has gotten, search on the date of the previous day [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Villanova recovered from an eight-point deficit to St. John’s midway through the first half Wednesday night but the Wildcats squandered opportunities for an upset late in the game and fell to the Red Storm 52-49 in a Big East matchup at home at the Pavilion. Associate head coach Joe Mullaney [...]
